Presenters:   Elio Caccavale   Dawn Danby   Olaf Dreyer   Juan Geuer   Rob Godman   John Hatch   Kenneth A. Huff   Mantissa   Miroslav Lovric   Sally McKay   Eric Raymond   S. David Rosner   Mariano Sardón   Frederic P. Schuller   Krister Shalm   Lydia Sharman &   Stephen Morris   Donald Spector   Joseph Thywissen   Marion Tränkle   Koala Yip Symposium Green Corridor: Regenerating the Industrial Landscape by Dawn Danby Green Corridor & WorldChanging.com http://www.greencorridor.ca & http://www.worldchanging.com The Green Corridor initiative is a multidisciplinary effort to transform one of the most environmentally denuded urban areas in Canada. First initiated by artists Noel Harding and Rod Strickland, the corridor lies along two kilometres of multi-lane roadway in Windsor, Ontario, leading to the Ambassador Bridge international border crossing. As an artist-led project, Green Corridor distinguishes itself from mere beautification: the incongruous site -- heavily trafficked, and lined with strip malls -- highlights the critical need for ecological transformation. In an urban context, sustainable redevelopment involves working within the existing infrastructure, as well as injecting a solid dose of innovation. While technologies and methods for remediation or distributed energy are well established, in most areas education and wherewithal are still lacking. Located in the nebulous region where public art, landscape and architecture intersect, the Green Corridor is working to turn the site 'inside-out'. In many ways, our effort is fundamentally an educational one: introducing sustainable technologies into an industrial community, illuminating scientific findings with public artworks, and introducing appropriate plantings to knit greenways into roofs, bridges, and walls. Projects currently underway include a tree-covered pedestrian overpass, elevated green roof sculptures, integrating real-time environmental monitoring with public displays, and development of new wind- and river-turbine technologies. This talk will look at the emerging technologies for 'redistributing the future' by improving the urban environment with both low- and high-tech solutions, using art and design as a way of revealing scientific truths and transforming the public experience. Biography: Dawn Danby is a Toronto designer whose work and writing focuses on the intersection of design and sustainability. Trained in industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design, she is currently collaborating with artists and engineers on the Green Corridor, a sustainable urban redevelopment initiative in Ontario's industrial rust belt. Dawn is a writer for WorldChanging.com, a group weblog / online magazine focused on developments and technologies for creating a positive future.   Page Top Copyright © 2004 Subtle Technologies Festival