Flock House is an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline. On June 20, it will be a living prototype, inhabitants will imagine and experience some level of the capsule living in a future dependent on mobile cities (the flock house will have wheels on the bottom) while the elevated habitat will be able to cope with rising sea levels.

In 2025, the Global Urban Observatory predicts that city dwellers will reach 5 billion. New Yorker’s can: move to the water, inhabit Governor’s Island, crowd Long Island, and/or take to the sky. Flock House is a proposal for a space where “the sky’s the limit...”

Condensation of the Social / Flock House

ecoarttech collaboration with Mary Mattingly @ Smackmellon-nyc, 2010

Join ecoarttech at Smackmellon in NYC from June 20th through the 26th as we live and work in Mary Mattingly’s Flock House, which will be exhibited as part of “Condensation of the Social.” Each day from noon to 2pm ecoarttech will organize urban hikes (originating at Flock House), exploring convergent ecologies in the DUMBO area in support of our work Indeterminate Hikes. In addition we will conduct several evening events involving performance and conversations engaging ecologies of the social, psychic, digital and environmental. All events are open to the public. Check back for details.

Flock House is a project conceived and initiated by Mary Mattingly and will be exhibited in June 2010 in collaboration with ecoarttech, Kadar Brock and Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner, Ian Daniel, ecoarttech, Kim Holleman, Paul Lloyd Sargent, and Tressie Word as part of the exhibition Condensation of the Socialcurated by Sara Reisman @ Smackmellon (NYC). June 19 – August 1, 2010.


From Smackmellon’s press release: “Having taken to the water in an experiment in sustainability with The Waterpod in 2009, Mary Mattingly is still focused on how we can respond to rising sea levels, this time by testing the limits of living on land. Within Condensations Mattingly will present a living prototype for Flock House, an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline. Built on materials that reference scaffolding, a construction material associated with changing cities, Flock House augments city space, air space, and questions air rights and functions as an observation deck with a view of weather systems and avian migration.”