Waiting after quite a while, I finally received Sandy's reply.
She sends a link of her works. While reading the web pages, her experience reminds me my own experience about water too, which makes me feel thrilled.
In 2005, when I was in Japur, India, I met an old man from Canada. He is an engineer working as an adviser to Japur government for tape water system. He wanted to show me some videos about water on his computer but couldn't find the file. So he only showed his family's photo and gave me the title of that DVD on water as well as the name of the producer: Asian Development Bank.
After coming back, I searched Internet, found the web of ADB and the DVD, and worte to ask for a copy, which I keep along, always want to show to my people. Since then, water has always occupied a corner in my mind.
But even earlier, I recall the days working with China Times Express, water has already been an issue that grabbed the media's attention. There were many water resources conferences and reports, around the time of the 90s in last century. Need to check out more details.
Then, there was another example in 2007 when I first went to the residency in Donghouliao, Chiayi. I witnessed the village head bought some fishes and put them into the water channel in the village without fully understanding of ecology. Of course the fishes died after a few days.
2009年6月26日 星期五
2009年6月14日 星期日
a background of daylighting in the US (compared to the UK)
From what I have searched,
Ann L. Riley's Restoring Streams in Cities (1998, Island Press, Washington D.C.) seems to be one of the earliest text about the new tides of restoring and daylighting streams in urban area.
Then comes Richard Pinkham (2000, 2002).
Both are engineer or scientist background.
Ann L. Riley is executive director of the Waterways Restoration Institute, where she works on the design and installation of stream restoration projects. She is involved in the evaluation of national water policy for the National Research Council, the Institute for Water Resources, and federal task forces.
Richard Pinkham is an independent consultant and an Adjunct Research Scholar with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a nonprofit natural resources policy center. He advises clients and prepares research studies in the fields of urban and agricultural water efficiency, water system planning, stormwater management, stream restoration, instream flow protection, decentralized wastewater management, and water reuse.
His recent reports for the U.S. EPA and various foundations include Water 2010: Four Scenarios for 21st Century Water Systems; Re-Evaluating Stormwater: The Nine Mile Run Model for Restorative Redevelopment; and Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams.
I didn't get a chance to read Riley's book yet. But according to Richard Pinkham (2000),
there are a few cases done in the 70s. One is in Napa, California and another in Urbana, Illinois.
... ... Daylighting began in the Bay Area when the city of Napa removed a cover over a channelized portion of Napa Creek in the 1970s. While this project did not renaturalize the stream, it may have been the first North American project to re-expose a previously hidden stream. ... ... (p.17)
The Urbana Park District re-established roughly 4,000 feet of the headwaters of Embarass (pronounced “Em-bruh”) Creek in the early 1970s by plugging and removing farm field drainage tiles at a newly purchased park property. Crews graded a rough channel into the landscape, allowing the creek to surface and redefine its path. This project was probably among the first in the country to re-establish a creek previously hidden by human actions, but it has received little attention to date. ... ... (p.28)
His words also replied half to my question of "why 1984"?
Berkeley completed the path-breaking Strawberry Creek project in 1984. ... ... The Strawberry Creek project is widely considered the archetype of daylighting. It inspired many other projects. ... ... (p.17)
trying to construct a time and spatial framework ~
Ann L. Riley's Restoring Streams in Cities (1998, Island Press, Washington D.C.) seems to be one of the earliest text about the new tides of restoring and daylighting streams in urban area.
Then comes Richard Pinkham (2000, 2002).
Both are engineer or scientist background.
Ann L. Riley is executive director of the Waterways Restoration Institute, where she works on the design and installation of stream restoration projects. She is involved in the evaluation of national water policy for the National Research Council, the Institute for Water Resources, and federal task forces.
Richard Pinkham is an independent consultant and an Adjunct Research Scholar with Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a nonprofit natural resources policy center. He advises clients and prepares research studies in the fields of urban and agricultural water efficiency, water system planning, stormwater management, stream restoration, instream flow protection, decentralized wastewater management, and water reuse.
His recent reports for the U.S. EPA and various foundations include Water 2010: Four Scenarios for 21st Century Water Systems; Re-Evaluating Stormwater: The Nine Mile Run Model for Restorative Redevelopment; and Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams.
I didn't get a chance to read Riley's book yet. But according to Richard Pinkham (2000),
there are a few cases done in the 70s. One is in Napa, California and another in Urbana, Illinois.
... ... Daylighting began in the Bay Area when the city of Napa removed a cover over a channelized portion of Napa Creek in the 1970s. While this project did not renaturalize the stream, it may have been the first North American project to re-expose a previously hidden stream. ... ... (p.17)
The Urbana Park District re-established roughly 4,000 feet of the headwaters of Embarass (pronounced “Em-bruh”) Creek in the early 1970s by plugging and removing farm field drainage tiles at a newly purchased park property. Crews graded a rough channel into the landscape, allowing the creek to surface and redefine its path. This project was probably among the first in the country to re-establish a creek previously hidden by human actions, but it has received little attention to date. ... ... (p.28)
His words also replied half to my question of "why 1984"?
Berkeley completed the path-breaking Strawberry Creek project in 1984. ... ... The Strawberry Creek project is widely considered the archetype of daylighting. It inspired many other projects. ... ... (p.17)
trying to construct a time and spatial framework ~
2009年6月12日 星期五
Being radical
David gave a thorough reply to my questions.
Quite thought-provoking.
It seems he has been always radical on art, but very gentle on person, which is the kind of personality many people would appreciate, so do I.
There are a few points need more exploration: the Barcelona Olympics and Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and the "divining", as well as the assessment.
Quite thought-provoking.
It seems he has been always radical on art, but very gentle on person, which is the kind of personality many people would appreciate, so do I.
There are a few points need more exploration: the Barcelona Olympics and Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and the "divining", as well as the assessment.
2009年6月9日 星期二
some rough idea continued ...
keep reading 《Mapping the Terrain》 ... ...
In fact, quite a few cases in the book are good examples with environmental concerns, and the impact last till today.
Such as Joseph Beuys' 7,000 Oaks (七千棵橡樹, 1982-87) , Mel Chin's Revival Field (田野再生, 1989~), Betsy Damon's Keepers of the Waters (蓄水的人, 1991-93) and L.A. River Project, (洛杉磯大河計劃, 1989-92), and, of course, not to mention Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison.
Coincidently, the Barbican art gallery in UK is going to open a big exhibition on the same footing:
Radical Nature
Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009
19 June 2009 - 18 October 2009
Eco- and Public art seem to share some common ground.
Worth to have a look while there.
In fact, quite a few cases in the book are good examples with environmental concerns, and the impact last till today.
Such as Joseph Beuys' 7,000 Oaks (七千棵橡樹, 1982-87) , Mel Chin's Revival Field (田野再生, 1989~), Betsy Damon's Keepers of the Waters (蓄水的人, 1991-93) and L.A. River Project, (洛杉磯大河計劃, 1989-92), and, of course, not to mention Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison.
Coincidently, the Barbican art gallery in UK is going to open a big exhibition on the same footing:
Radical Nature
Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009
19 June 2009 - 18 October 2009
Eco- and Public art seem to share some common ground.
Worth to have a look while there.
a few coincidences
coincidence 1, establish a safe environment :
Artist Presentation by Arlene Raven (in the link of Reading Arlene Raven) v.s. museum of the corporation by platform.
coincidence 2, why 1984?
Is the daylighting of streams becoming a trend? Q&A by Richard Pinkham v.s. 《Mapping the Terrain》(2004，遠流中文版，p.235)
Maybe, the world exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (1984) holds the answer?
Artist Presentation by Arlene Raven (in the link of Reading Arlene Raven) v.s. museum of the corporation by platform.
coincidence 2, why 1984?
Is the daylighting of streams becoming a trend? Q&A by Richard Pinkham v.s. 《Mapping the Terrain》(2004，遠流中文版，p.235)
Maybe, the world exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (1984) holds the answer?
2009年6月8日 星期一
研究方法 method
to read
to see
to listen
to ask
to feel
方法架構
類型化的案例：新興視覺類藝術空間研究-以台北市為範疇成果報告
區域型研究的案例：藝文展演空間營運模式研究計畫-淡水藝術網絡成果報告
(國藝會調查研究成果：http://www.ncafroc.org.tw/Content/research-content.asp?Act_id=73)
to see
to listen
to ask
to feel
方法架構
類型化的案例：新興視覺類藝術空間研究-以台北市為範疇成果報告
區域型研究的案例：藝文展演空間營運模式研究計畫-淡水藝術網絡成果報告
(國藝會調查研究成果：http://www.ncafroc.org.tw/Content/research-content.asp?Act_id=73)
2009年6月7日 星期日
some rough thoughts
I did some research on Internet about “daylighting” streams and get some stuff which I put together on the web site that I just launched to make it a database for my project. The links and the maps in there are my tools.
In the Q & A with Richard Pinkham from one source (3 Rivers 2nd Nature ), it is said that since 1984 till 2000, there were at least 20 daylighting projects that have been completed in the U.S., and at least another 20 were in various stages of development. When David Haley did his unculverting in Ulverston in 1992, it wasn't the first case in the world. However, most of the cases in the files tends to be scientist or engineer-initiated. He seems to be one of the earliest examples to take such task as an artist in Britain. I wonder, what is the impetus to make him undertook the work?
I also noticed in the WEN interview “David Haley on the Record” he mentioned that ‘I spent six or seven months trying to get permission to unculvert the river. It was at the time when the National Rivers Authority was handing over to the Environment Agency. When I eventually got permission to go ahead with the project the Planning Officer said he had never heard of someone applying to unculvert a river.’
Why it took so many months to get permission to unculvert? Does that have anything to do with the administrative transition of the National Rivers Authority? Or, the transition represented a more beneficial inclination towards ecological concerns, and opened up a bigger opportunity to carry out this kind of projects?
The London based artist group Platform also did quite a few works/projects on the buried rivers in London during the early 90s. It seems the unculverting/deculverting/daylighting streams became a focus around that time. Could that be related to the administrative transition or that simply is a result of the artistic effects since Platform recited the influence they have acquired from the current practioners/cultural activists and David Haley is among the list?
Maps of London's Thames valley
Fleet (Hampstead Heath-Blackfriars)
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Wandle river
Wandle (wandsworth-merton)
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Effra(Herne Hill)
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Wandle river
Wandle (wandsworth-merton)
Effra(Herne Hill)
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Bibliography 參考文獻
(建置中)
Daylighting:
文章：
London River Restoration: Establishing Ecological Resilience and Community Benefit www.riversymposium.com/2006/index.php?element=06WEBBDavid - 116k
Daylighting and Restoring Streams in Rural Community City Centers: Case Studies www.nps.gov/ncrc/programs/rtca/helpfultools/daylighting.pdf - 1138k
Assessing the Feasibility of Creek Daylighting in San Francisco, Part I: A Synthesis of Lessons Learned from Existing Urban Daylighting Projects http://repositories.cdlib.org/wrca/restoration/smith/ - 1155k
URBAN STREAM DAYLIGHTING: Case Study Evaluations www.vwrrc.vt.edu/pdfs/specialreports/sr352007.pdf - 848k
Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams www.rmi.org/images/other/Water/W00-32_Daylighting.pdf - 3051k
STREAM RESTORATION AND DAYLIGHTING: Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Region http://3r2n.collinsandgoto.com/revalued/stream-restoration-daylighting/index.htm
STREAM RESTORATION AND DAYLIGHTING: Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Region report http://3r2n.collinsandgoto.com/revalued/stream-restoration-daylighting/stream-restoration-and-daylighting.pdf - 303k
網站：
Daylighting (streams) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylighting_(streams)
The River Restoration Center http://www.therrc.co.uk/lrap.php
3 Rivers 2nd Nature http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu/policy/lost/
Daylighting streams: Water and Sewers Utilities http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/watersewers/environment/streams.htm
Still Creek Enhancement http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cityplans/stillcreek/index.htm
Restoring Rivers.org http://www.restoringrivers.org/oldsite/example/southeast/1longdale.html
Riverways Program http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/river/programs/stream/index.htm
Still Creek Rehabilitation and Enhancement Study http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cityplans/stillcreek/study/index.htm
David Haley & WSI
相關連結：
David Haley on the Record http://www.wemmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=23
Welfare State International http://www.welfare-state.org/
Welfare State International : theater collection, University of Bristol http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/welfarestate.html
Lanternhouse International http://www.lanternhouse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=12
General Readings
《量繪形貌－新類型公共藝術》(Mapping the Terrain : New Genre Public Art) edit. by Suzanne Lacy，2004，遠流中文版
Restoring Streams in Cities, Ann L. Riley, 1998, Island Press, Washington D.C.
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