The Lowline Lab
Position: Site Coordinator
Company: The Lowline
Location: NYC
Year: 2016-17
The Lowline Lab was a long-term technical exhibit designed to test and showcase how an underground park would function. Built inside an abandoned market on the Lower East Side, the Lab included a series of controlled experiments and educational exhibits.
By the time I joined the Lowline team as the Site Coordinator the Lab had been built and running as a type of avant-garde art piece for a year. While many visitors were impressed by the beauty and ingenuity of the installation, an equal number struggled to imagine this almost empty warehouse, with only a few “house plants,” as a public park.
Over the next two years I worked with the project manager to re-brand and redesign the Lab as an educational facility and multi-functional public space.
We Added:
informative signs
educational demonstrations
plant documentation
science lectures
family educational events
park seating
plant care
technology care
light installation
plant documentation
plant documentation
plant documentation
community outreach
community outreach
community outreach
light experimentation
light experimentation
light experimentation
plant documentation
plant documentation
plant documentation
Lessons Learned: Grow Lights
LED Grow Lights
Full Spectrum Grow Lights
Sunlight & Parabolic Mirror
Source 4 Theatrical Lights