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...”

Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day five

Last day in the Flock House.  I was just starting to get used to this routine, too.  Oh well.  I also realized, as I was cleaning up my last batch of gathered trash, that I kinda blew the opportunity to do an organizing project via Flock House/Smack Mellon.  Not sure why I didn’t think of it before but I should have used this weekend to recruit people to join me in collecting the trash from the Brooklyn waterfront.  Then come up with some kind of collaborative project to make something out of the trash we gathered.  Hmmm, next time.

Jen came to visit me in the Flock House today.  She hit her head rather hard on one of the hanging plant buckets (I might recommend a redesign for tall people) but she was a good sport about it. 

Then she went kayaking in Brooklyn Bridge Park.  It’s free each Sunday.  It’s run by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club.  I need to link up with them.  I typically spend so much of the summer in the North Country that I don’t know nearly enough about the NYC waterfront.  Hence why I did the “hydronym: erie basin meets erie basin” BIKE BOX project.  Now I need to get to know Gowanus and other NYC waterways.

Today’s trash seemed to beg for engulfing the Flock House as much as I could with one day left.  So I did my best:

And so, for the last day’s drawing, I mused about what it might have looked like if I’d had more time and lamented that, despite what must amount to five huge trash bags filled with debris, I barely made a dent in the Brooklyn waterfront trashscape:

-paul

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