Adaptation(s) 2.0

Adaptation(s) 2.0 col­lects four exhi­bi­tions at Pratt’s House on Gov­er­nors Island. Col­lec­tive­ly, they bring togeth­er the lead­ing archi­tec­tur­al prac­tices of Skid­more Owings and Mer­rill (NYC) and Fos­ter + Part­ners (Lon­don), along­side stu­dent work and relat­ed research activities/​workshops at Pratt and with its glob­al part­ners. The exhi­bi­tion spot­lights scal­able solu­tions for cli­mate adap­ta­tion in island arch­i­pel­a­gos from the Mal­dives to Patag­o­nia to NYC. 

Future Pos­i­tive: Evolv­ing Resilient Strate­gies (Fos­ter + Part­ners):
Fos­ter + Part­ners has been among the ear­li­est archi­tec­ture firms work­ing on cli­mate adap­ta­tion reflect­ing its exper­tise and long-time com­mit­ment to the envi­ron­ment and relat­ed sub­jects. The exhi­bi­tion is book­end­ed by two pub­lic pre­miers — one an eco­log­i­cal mas­ter plan devel­oped by Nor­man Fos­ter for the island of Gomera (in the Canary Islands) from 1975 and the oth­er a cur­rent mas­ter­plan to address cli­mate change for Gaa­faru Atoll on the Mal­di­vian Arch­i­pel­ago. Between are exam­ples of ongo­ing adap­ta­tion projects by the prac­tice in NYC and the Stock­holm archipelago

A Tale of Two Islands: Plan­ning for a Post-Car­bon Future (Skid­more Owings and Mer­rill):
Skid­more, Owings & Mer­rill (SOM) has been a lead­ing force in the redesign and rede­vel­op­ment of the East Riv­er Cor­ri­dor. This exhi­bi­tion presents two design pro­pos­als, one built and one unbuilt, for rede­vel­op­ing two islands with­in the New York City arch­i­pel­ago. SOM’s mas­ter plan for Cor­nell Tech on the south­ern tip of Roo­sevelt Island, in the East Riv­er between Man­hat­tan and Queens, is shown in dia­logue with a new cam­pus plan that SOM is devel­op­ing for the future New York Cli­mate Exchange on Gov­er­nors Island, in New York Har­bor at the south­ern mouth of the East Riv­er. Designed a decade apart, these two projects reveal evolv­ing strate­gies to advance coastal resilience and cli­mate change adaptation.

Patag­o­nia and Beyond (Pratt Insti­tute Cen­ter for Cli­mate Adap­ta­tion):
This three part exhi­bi­tion includes field work, find­ings, stu­dent research and real­iz­able pro­pos­als bring­ing togeth­er four aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions: Pratt Insti­tute, Uni­ver­si­dad Del Desar­rol­lo (UDD), Sin­ga­pore Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy and Design and Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy. Includ­ing expe­di­tions across the Patag­on­ian arch­i­pel­ago, to Chiloé (its largest island), to Sin­ga­pore and Gov­er­nors Island, the exhi­bi­tion show­cas­es an array of meth­ods and tech­nolo­gies and the poten­tials of design-based research in cli­mate adaptation.

Archipel­og­ics 2.0 (Pratt Insti­tute MS. Urban Design and Archi­tec­ture):
The third annu­al exhi­bi­tion includ­ing work from recent Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Archi­tec­ture and Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Urban Design year­long stu­dios at Pratt Insti­tute focus­es on build­ing adap­ta­tion pro­pos­als in Rock­away, Queens and Urban Design adap­ta­tion in Red Hook, Brook­lyn; both locat­ed on Long Island, the 17^th most pop­u­lous island on the planet. 

Hempcrete Habitat/​Swale
Work from Pratt Fac­ul­ty is on dis­play at Nolan Park 11, the ​“Swale” orga­ni­za­tions home in Nolan Park over­seen by Mary Mat­ting­ly. At the Bee Sanc­tu­ary in the Urban Farm on Gov­er­nors Island is a hemp pro­to­type for a pol­li­na­tor bee habi­tat designed by Ari­ane Lourie Har­ri­son and Ate­lier Harrison.

Upcom­ing Events

• Octo­ber 19 & 20: Exhi­bi­tion Guid­ed Tours with Found­ing CCA Direc­tor David Erd­man and Pro­gram Coor­di­na­tor Po-Yao Shih, 12 – 4PM
• Octo­ber 20: Island Walk­ing Tour with Pratt CCA’s Pro­fes­sor Carl Zim­ring, 12 – 2PM
  

Pratt Insti­tute is one of the 2024 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.