Areas of research:

• History and Context
  The historic context of the site, article by Andrew S. McElwaine
• Historical Quotes and Timeline
  From our gallery show, research by John Stephen.
• Stream Research
  Water issues and urban stream reclamation
• Land and Slag
  Land restoration; policy and practice on post-industrial brownfields
• Biology
  Habitat creation and promotion in urban brownfield environment
• Public policy
  The funding and management of brownfield reclamation
• Watershed Conservation Plan

 

 

Art and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

In the act of reclamation...the creation of aesthetic experience.

Post-industrial environments are by nature complex systems.

Reclamation projects involve inquiry and action that can occupy a roomful of disciplines. It is only through collective interdisciplinary inquiry and discourse that complex systems can be perceived. If we accept Joseph Kosuths comments on quality; "Quality is to be found in the artists thinking" then reclamation-art by its nature must free itself from the constraints of individuilist practice. The "art" becomes the work and process of the entire interdisciplinary team, the experience of the work is the experience of place.