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...”

ecoarttech’s flockhouse residency

Hi ! We are the ecoarttech collaborative and we are continuing to develop our Indeterminate Hikes project during our Flock House Residency. Indeterminate Hikes is a smartphone app and an installation that encourages participants to navigate, question, and document the possibilities of hybrid ecology—that is, of spaces for “nature” or wildness—in a globalized, urban place like NYC. Inspired by the Flock House we are creating a new series of hikes originating at the current location of the Flock House prototype (Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NYC) and winding through the streets of DUMBO. We will be posting several new hikes over the next couple of days. The first hike is called the Evans Street Hike. This is a loop hike and moves east of the Flock House and under the Manhattan Bridge. For more info on Indeterminate Hikes click here. At the time of this posting Indeterminate Hikes is a beta version (in testing) and works best with a smartphone running Android 2.0. You can also access the work with limited functionality from any web browser. Have fun and enjoy the wilderness of the everyday! -ecoarttech

Evans Street Hike, Indeterminate Hikes, ecoarttech, 2010

indeterminate hike #1 > Evans Street Hike