............THE URBAN HOMESTEADING PROJECT
Some of Your Business (future)
Summer Homestead (2008)
Summer Homestead [temporary public dwelling] Governors Island, NY (2008)
Summer Homestead was a transformative living structure designed to provide multi-sensory experiences through interaction with natural and synthetic elements.
Over nine weeks, a wooden structure was gradually insulated with salvaged plastic bottles, re-purposed as receptacles for organic life. Within each bottle, living plants are cultivated in either soil or water. Each species of plant was selected for its fragrant, edible or shade-giving qualities.
Viewers were invited to donate plastic bottles and participate in the planting process. As more bottles were incorporated, Summer Homestead took shape as a collaboratively built public space.
At the exhibition's end the plants were disbursed among the viewers.