Environmental Health Clinic

The Environmental Health Clinic at NYU is a clinic and lab, modeled on other health clinics at universities. However the project approaches health from an understanding of its dependence on external local environments; rather than on the internal biology and genetic predispositions of an individual.

Exhibited at the V&A Museum, Storefront for Urban Architecture benefit auction, the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, INOVA at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, The Joanne and Nathan Cummings Arts Center at Connecticut College, and the Stream Gallery in Brooklyn.

Client: Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic
Role: Graphic Design, Photography, Research, Design residency
Collaborators: Natalie Jeremijenko, Laura Ballantyne-Brodie, Rona Binay, Annelie Berner, Leah Borromeo, Tega Brain, Fernando Cremades, Dean Dass, Carla Duarte, Fran Gallardo, Cassandra Fraser, Kathy High, Rory Hyde, Marda Kirn, Lucy Knops, Sara Krajewski, Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi, Kate Rich, Hassan Saker, Igor Vamos, Bethany Wall

Wikipedia
All of this Belongs to You

Phenology refers to the timing and seasonality of events in the life cycles of other species such as fowering, migration, budding and seeding. There is a growing interest in the study of phenology in the context of the Anthropocene, the current geological era where humans and human technologies are the predominant force shaping environmental conditions.

The resultant clock represents time as seasonally interdependent processes. In the future we will track the changing temporal responses to natural systems by publishing annual phenological clocks of specific parks, neighborhoods, or counties.

London Phenological Clock installed at the V&A Museum as part of the 'All of This Belongs to You' Exhibition

Phenophase patterns

Interactive London Phenological Clock

New York City poster

London Poster

Render for phenological clock watch prototype – includes hands for seconds, minutes, hours, and days

Prototype for physical clock – Displayed at Stream Gallery for ‘SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING’ show

Diagram of physical clock

FARMACY is a distributed urban farming system that is designed to improve environmental health and augment biodiversity in addition to producing edibles. The AgBag addresses the issue of little or no access to soil, little or no space, compromised air and water quality among other challenges.

The AgBag provides a durable inexpensive growing structure to facilitate participatory research and to experiment with vegetation based systems design. The platform features a nondestructive, safe but temporary counterbalanced attachment to railings and windows.

AgBags outside of the V&A Museum

Natalie planting flowers at the V&A Museum

AgBag at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY

xCola diagram

FlowerxFloss Diagram

Manufactory event setup

xCola at The Postmasters Gallery in NYC

xCola at UVA

Custom labels printed on hand made paper from fibers grown at UVA

FlowerxFloss at The Postmasters Gallery

Moth Cinema displays the presence of moths, other nocturnal insects and our success in creating healthy habitat for these valuable pollinators and for ourselves. The moth habitat contains tasty provisions, host and nectar plants to change the moth-hostile light-polluted urban environments we live in.

Environmental Health Clinic