Urban Rain: Stormwater as Resource

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As we recognise the necessity of creating more sustainable and humane cities, Jackie Brookner's most recent work, Urban Rain: Stormwater as Resource, points the way. How do we lear n to not just see what we have chosen to ignore and consigned to waste, but to actually celebrate and utilise it? As Patricia Phillips says in her informative essay, "The artist uses stormwater as both a raw material to exploit and the problem to solve producing a fascinating feedback loop of aesthetic decisions and ecological imperatives." Commissioned by the City of San Jose, California to work at the Roosevelt Community Center, a new LEED gold building, Brookner created two installations that collect and filter rainwater shed from the roof of the building. Beyond their elegant functionality, these works provoke questions about where the body begins and ends, about our human dependence on natural systems, and about what the being of human can mean today. This publication documents Brookner's process from concept drawings through installation and includes provocative essays by noted art critic Patricia Phillips and hydrologist Franco Montalto. 100 colour & 10 b/w photographs & 40 illustrations Product details Format Paperback | 64 pages Dimensions 203 x 216 x 7.62mm | 235.87g Publication date 01 Sep 2009 Publisher Oro Editions Publication City/Country San Rafael, United States Language English Illustrations note 100 col, 10 b/w ills ISBN10 0982060726 ISBN13 9780982060728 Show more