public ecoart and the green urban fabric
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Recent presentation to West Palm Beach Sustainability Advisory Committee to show how EcoArt can relate to the focus areas of the city's new sustainability action plan.TRANSCRIPT
Public EcoArt and the Sustainable Urban Fabric
By
Mary Jo Aagerstoun
September 7, 2011
“…Ecoart (ecological art) melds aspects ofenvironmental art, activist art and
community animation/mobilization art with engineering and science-originated processes
of avoiding/restoration of damaged ecosystems…”
Definition from www.ecoartsofla.org
What happens when Public EcoArt merges with SAP Focus Areas??
• Natural Resources and Water Conservation
• Housing and Building
• Land Use, Redevelopment and Transportation
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• Recycling and Waste Management
• Local Food Production
• Green Economy
Sculptural solar-powered plug-incharge station for electric share car
Transportation and Renewable Energy
Solar powered marble street light sculptures announce a building’s
LEED identity
Alternative power/green building
Photovoltaic murals in windows/as wall sheathing
Green building and Renewable Energy
Building-integrated downspouts and cisterns as art
Green building and stormwater harvesting
Sculptural solutions to water capture and cleaningin and around retention ponds/canals/intracoastal
Stormwater infrastructure/ stormwater management/;ecologies protection
Wildlife habitat sculptureinstallation after invasives removal
Natural resources/ecologies protection
Pervious sidewalk as art
Transportation (walkable streets)/stormwater handling/aquifer recharge
Green alley gardening as art
Transportation, stormwater handling,walkable streets
Art, design and science combine to challenge reflective paint in
reducing roof heat
Green building, alternative energy, stormwater handling
Urban Agriculture/Communityfarms as art
Land use, redevelopment, renewable technologies, recycling
Recycling/repurposing art conceptactivates a derelict site for play
Redevelopment, land use, waste material/site recycling/repurposing
…So…
Let’s review how all this relates to the SAP Focus Areas!
Natural Resources and Water Conservation
Green building and construction
Land Use, Redevelopment and Transportation
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Local Food Production
…Next steps…(1) SAC concurs that initiatives be taken to integrate Public EcoArt in
each SAP focus area(2) Hold joint SAC-Cultural Council-AIPP Committee workshop with
other relevant staff to develop approaches to integration of Public EcoArt
(3) Develop, and present to Commission suggested language for modifications to City Code/Comprehensive Plan, as needed to accomplish (1)
(see language on EcoArt as green development incentive/public art program emphasis,
City of Boynton Beach: http://tinyurl.com/BoyntonBeachclimateactionplan)