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...”

Sustainable Co-creation with Lonny Grafman

Back of Lonny in front of a solar parabolic dish

Lonny Grafman, on his way from teaching Renewable Energy at the University of the Basque Country in Spain to directing a summer, appropriate technology, immersion program in Chiapas, Mexico, was the resident artist in the Flock House on June 23rd and 24th.  While there, he hosted free and open sustainability consulting and conversations as part of the exhibit.

Lonny is the President of the Appropedia Foundation and while he was meeting in person, Appropedians in different parts of the world prepared pages on sustainable city living - http://www.appropedia.org/Sustainable_city_living.

Some results of this unique art engagement follow:

Things people want to see in the Flock House exhibit:

Questions with available answers (from Lonny and Appropedia) focused on:

Questions that need answers:

New ideas!

Feel free to take these ideas and make something happen, stop by Smack Mellon in DUMBO, reply with photos, comments, links or more.