Abstract
What are our hopes for relationship with this waterscape in 150 years? This workshop engages participants in making geodesic structures as done in a recent project Macatawa Manoomin Marsh. In their original context these structures recast aggressive invasive species (cattails) as protectors while native plants were reestablished in a historic Manoomin (wild rice) bed that is now Windmill Island (a tourist site) and the marsh early Dutch colonizers used as a trash dump. Reestablishing a variety of pioneering native plants creates a place for Manoomin (Zizania Aquatica) to return. The structures aim to engage the publics’s water imaginary and inspire site visitors towards a new way of being. In addition to the hands on activity, participants in this workshop will view a variety of deep ecology projects and will work in small teams to ideate on a locally relevant ecological topic and how to engage and inspire a new way of being.
Presenters
Sara Alsum WassenaarArtist/Creative Practice, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, United States
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KEYWORDS
Civic Engagement, Municipality Collaboration, Material Lifecycle, Speculative Futures, Deep Ecology
