Hackensack River, New Jersey
Academic
Spring 2025In an alternate reality, where the Hackensack River is integrated into daily consciousness, human systems align with the river’s dynamic patterns rather than dominating or disregarding them. Infrastructure, commerce, and culture are reoriented around principles of regeneration and reciprocity, and grounded in the lessons of specific environmental cycles. To aid in imagining this world, we created artifacts that would exist in this river logic society. Three of which are presented here.
To play up the playfulness that comes with daydreaming, we used different modes of representation for each artifact. For example, the Watering Hole drawing is set up as a wimmelbild – a hidden object illustration where the drinking water fountain stands at the center of a diverse set of activities that water facilitates.
with Clarasophia Gust & Maria Fairchild
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