We’re excited to invite you to our first ever Outdoors Community Reading and Picnic!

Location: Mount Prospect Park
Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Bring snacks/drinks, friends, and something to sit on.

Date/Time: Saturday, 4/3, 2–4pm
The Community Reading will begin at 3pm

We’ll share a link prior to the event, and printouts will be available

A note on safety:

We expect this to be a smaller group. To ensure the safety and well-being of all participants, we ask that you please wear a face mask and maintain a 6-ft distance with people outside your bubble. If you have been fully vaccinated, please still follow CDC guidelines in your interactions with others.

In the wake of rising discrimination and violence against AAPI and the tragic killing of six AAPI women in Atlanta last week, Climate Collective NYC invites our entire community for an evening of stories and reflection to demonstrate solidarity and allyship with the AAPI community.

This will be an open conversation, and we will hold space for our AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) friends who wish to share their experiences and talk about how we can work together towards belonging, equity, and justice for the AAPI community.

Before joining please take a few minutes to read up on Anti-Asian Racism or follow #stopasianhate on Twitter or on Instagram. The conversation will be recorded.

conversation

Reza Cristián
Reza Cristián is founder and editor-in-chief of SUSTAIN THE MAG, an online media platform where eco-conscious warriors cultivate a healthy, planet-friendly lifestyle.

Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri
A Brooklyn-based industrial designer, futurist, and multidisciplinary artist addressing emerging climates and the contemporary metropolis

workshop

We will share the general idea for our late-September collaboration / activation, potentially outside Ace Hotel, for Climate Week, and seek your thoughts and feedback

agenda

7:30 pm welcome + guest conversation

8:10 pm workshop + discussion

9:00 pm event ends

featured guests + discussion

Eunice Ko
Public policy / climate equity champion and dog mom to Doodle

Raafi Rivero
Filmmaker whose recent street art installation Unarmed addresses racist police violence

Megan Marini, Facilitator
Community-centered designer, founder at 3x3 Design, urban planner, and educator

workshop

We will read our collective statement and discuss metrics for success for our inclusion efforts going forward.

Lauren Wang, Facilitator
Urban planner focused on climate and housing, exuberant connector of people

agenda

7:30 pm welcome + featured guests

8:00 pm workshop + discussion

9:00 pm event ends

featured guests + discussion

Max Levine
Co-founder and CEO of Nico, a neighborhood real estate investment company; worked in real estate investment and the hospitality industry for 15 years

Joseph Sant
Deputy General Counsel at Center for NYC Neighborhoods; housing program designer, crisis responder, and cause lawyer

Lauren Wang, Host
Urban planner focused on climate and housing, exuberant connector of people

Megan Marini, Host
Community-centered designer, founder at 3x3 Design, urban planner, and educator

workshop

world building / sci-fi prototyping to imagine and branstorm better futures for the planet

agenda

7:30 speaker insights + discussion

8:15 workshop

9:00 event ends

featured guests + discussion

For this month's Collective, we'd like to foster a conversation about possible foundational changes in the way we think that might improve our relationship to the Earth's ecosystems. Some topics we want to bring to the table are: dualism of humans vs. nature, a rejection of empiricism and an embrace of animism, and our obsession with "growth" or "progress". We will invite our speakers to share their own experiences of a paradigm shift, either in their work or personal lives.

Chester Dols
Director of SVA Visible Futures Lab and trans-

disciplinary designer/artist whose research focuses on gendered mediums, objects & spaces

Tiffany Shin
An artist who works with living organisms, especially microbes, in conjunction with legacies of colonialism and investigations of the body

James Tung
A graduate of SVA, former collaborator with Pentagram's Paula Scher, Design Director, and Educator

Helen Chen, Host
An artist and interaction designer whose current areas of inquiry are materials science, interspecies ecologies, and augmented sensing

Luke Cheng, Host
An artist at New Inc exploring the commonalities between cybernetics, ecology, and social fabrics

earth day planning + discussion

Together, we will review plans and discuss production of various activations for Earth Day in the context of COVID-19

We've been going over your great ideas behind the scenes and will come together for our next potluck on Wednesday, February 19 from 7-9:30 PM at Huge, Inc., 45 Main Street, Brooklyn in Dumbo.

This month, Timofei Gerasimov and Andrea Cristina Ruiz will kick off by leading a discussion on Empiricism -- gathering evidence and drawing conclusions on big, complex issues. You'll come away with tools for interpreting information on climate change with a critical lens, and -- more importantly -- drawing your own conclusions on the climate crisis and other issues in an age of information overload. From there, we'll continue building out our public art projects to celebrate Earth Day 2020.

Planning Workshop + Tour of Ace Hotel for April Earth Day event

workshop

Welcome back! With our first event in 2020, we will be welcoming new and familiar faces, looking back at past potlucks and creative works, and building towards an even more inclusive and vibrant community in the new year. We will also generate ideas for our next major creative work and event on Earth Day this April, which Ace Hotel has kindly offered space to host. We will also introduce opportunities for all to help us plan and shape future events.

7:00 drinks in lobby
7:30 tour of Ace Hotel
8:00 planning 2020 monthly events
9:00 ideas for Earth Day

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Lauren Wang

Urban planner for climate resilience, and connector of people and ideas

Mrinalini Aggarwal

An Indian artist working at the intersections of architecture, art and design

Group Discussion

We’ll debrief our recent Climate Action Clinic project at Governors Island, and plan how to bring it to life at House of Yes in November

7:00 welcome reception + dinner
7:30 speaker insights
8:00 discussion / activity 9:30 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Zoë Schlanger

environment and science reporter for Quartz

Sarah Sax

freelance climate and environmental journalist

Group Discussion

We’ll share and workshop guiding principles and a plan for Climate Collective’s second year, with a focus on Cimate Week in September

7:00 welcome reception + dinner

7:30 speaker insights

8:00 discussion + activity

9:30 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Lily Consuelo Soporta Tagiuri

A Brooklyn-based industrial designer, futurist, and multidisciplinary artist addressing emerging climates and the contemporary metropolis

Jackie Tran

Sustainability Coordinator at Greens Farms Academy and developer of educational tools to build environmentally literate populations

Group Discussion

A recap of our first project, the One Home installation, and our overarching goals; strategic planning for future projects and events

7:00 welcome reception + dinner

7:30 speaker insights

8:00 discussion + activity

9:30 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Greg Lindquist

A New York-based artist whose work addresses environmental landscapes in critical and speculative ways.

Amir Sheikh

A researcher whose interdisciplinary projects connect environmental sciences, urban planning, anthropology, and global development.

Small Group Discussion

In smaller groups, we will workshop and identify potential projects for the spring of 2019

7:00 welcome reception + dinner

7:30 speaker insights + micro-actions

8:00 activity + discussion

9:30 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Louise Yeung

manages the design & implementation of resilient energy and flood protection infrastructure at the NYC Economic Development Corporation

Molly Garfinkel

directs City Lore's Place Matters program, a wide-ranging public history and advocacy initiative working with communities across NYC

Hatim Belyamani

orchestra conductor from the future, beaming traditional musicians from around the world onto a big screen, in new electro beats

Small Group Discussion

In smaller groups, we will workshop and identify potential audiences, to move towards an action-oriented initiative in the spring of 2019

7:00 welcome reception + dinner

7:30 speaker presentations

8:00 breakout groups + discussion

9:30 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Ella Boureau

New York City-based writer, translator, and events curator.

Drew Silverman

Climatologist, wind farmer, weather-nerd.

Alex Limpaecher

Data scientist who builds qualitative analysis tools. Co-founder of TwentyToNine and @delvetool.

Kendra Allenby

Cartoonist for the New Yorker and other publications, and storyboarder

7:00 welcome reception + dinner

7:30 speaker presentations

8:15 breakout groups + discussion

9:30 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

The main activity during this event will be a rotating dinner conversation, where you will be assigned to a group of four people, and then cycle through a couple other such groups—kind of like speed dating. The goal of this activity is to enable everyone to share their expertise, experience, and curiosity, especially as it relates to climate issues and ways in which we can tell a better story of climate change.

7:00 welcome reception + dinner

7:30 “speed-dating” in groups of 4

8:30 debrief discussion

9:00 event ends

Potluck dinner. Please bring some food and/or drinks to share.

Marisa Prefer

Public Programs @ Swale, a public floating food forest; Landscape Curator, Pioneer Works; Operates pedagogy & design collective known as non/studio

Adrien Salazar

Campaign Strategist, Climate Equity, for Demos, a public policy organization

Thaddeus Pawlowski

Managing Director, Columbia University Center for Resilient Cities & Landscapes