Environmental Art; from the line to the landscape

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    96 Bishop Allen Drive

    Bridget Kraemer

    Municipal Lot #4 is a small parking lot at 96 Bishop Allen Drive, on the back side of the block with H-mart on it. Its dozen and a half parking spaces are marked by waist high metal rods in the concrete with cigarettes, tissues and little plastic alcohol bottles stuffed into their hollow tops. Similarly to the much larger Lot #5 on the other side of the block, which held Starlight Square during the pandemic, about half of its spots have a car in them most weekdays. The four sides of the lot are a thin strip of dirt with a couple of scraggly trees, a back wall of the H-Mart with a yellow mural on it, a new grey, tan, and blue six story apartment building, and the entrance with a nonprofit space across the street . In Cambridge's recent Central Square City Lots Study they recommended Lot #4 and Lot #5 to be in the first phase of Central's redevelopment, with Lot #4 becoming affordable housing and community or commercial space. 


    With this project I wanted to get a sense of the subcultural goings-on at the lot and compare that to the neighboring cultural spaces and sleek new apartment building.


    Crossroads

    Gabe Murray and Gabe Murray

    Crossroads

    By Gabriel Murray

    

    3 bigelow street

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    Crossroads is an immersive art installation located at 3 Bigelow Street that uses traditional and digital media to explore speculative futures and reflect on the uncertain trajectory of our civilization. The installation combines inking, charcoal, digital art, and 3D forms rendered in Blender to blur the boundaries between physical and digital experiences.


    The project is designed to transform a historic site into a conceptual "portal", a space where past, present, and potential futures intersect. Each medium contributes to this narrative: the tactile nature of ink and charcoal grounds the work in material history, while digital layers and 3D renders gesture toward rapidly evolving technological possibilities. By integrating these forms into a cohesive environment, Crossroads invites viewers to consider the ambiguity of their own decisions in the context of a broader societal crossroads, emphasizing the tension between known paths and unknown outcomes.

    Mid review

    Bryson Guthrie and Sam Hague

    On 260 Green St there is a parking lot, as well as the central square branch of the Cambridge public library, that people have proposed to turn into a building including public housing. For our project we want to draw and paint their vision for a public housing unit in that area with a garden on top. We specifically want to focus on the green space, being the park on the space and the green roof.

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