Adaptations 2.0 Exhibitions + Walking Tours

Pratt Institute’s Center for Climate Adaptation is running its second consecutive round of exhibitions and a panel for NYC Climate Week. The exhibition is Co-Hosted with the NY Climate Exchange and the Trust for Governors Island. It is conceived, timed and convened on the occasions of the UN Summit of the Future. The exhibitions on Governors Island at Nolan Park 14 will again spotlight two world leading firms who offer differing perspectives on climate adaptation and specifically for strategies in archipelagos – communities who are at the greatest risk and in need of finding livable solutions for future climate change.

Adaptation(s) 2.0 collects five exhibitions at Pratt’s House on Governors Island at Nolan Park as well as related installations across the island. Anchoring the exhibitions and featured, are the work of Foster + Partners and Skidmore Owings and Merrill. SOM will be developing an exhibition highlighting projects on Roosevelt Island and Governors Island that involve varying measures of climate adaptation. The Foster + Partners exhibition will showcase historic work dealing with climate adaptation in the Canary Islands from the early 1970’s and leapfrog to related recent work in NYC and the Maldives.

Between the anchor exhibitions on the ground floor is an exhibition joining both floors featuring work from Pratt’s Center for Climate Adaptation entitled “Patagonia and Beyond.” It will include work from workshops and studios in Patagonia, Singapore and NYC. Upstairs will feature two exhibitions of graduating MS Urban Design and MS Architecture students working in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Jamaica Bay, Queens showcasing two scales of climate adaptation on Long Island; the 17th most populous island on the planet.

Guided tours of the exhibitions and a walking tour of the island will be part of the activities taking place earlier in the day on October 19th and 20th.

• Exhibition Guided Tours with Founding CCA Director David Erdman and Program Coordinator Po-Yao Shih
  • 12pm – 4pm October 19th and 20th – open to the public
  • Happens every hour on the hour at NP14

• Island Walking Tour with Pratt CCA’s Pratt Prof. Carl Zimring
  • 12pm-2pm  October 20th – open to the public
  • Departs from NP14