The City College of New York
Projects | 2019
Generative Waste
Kayla Conroy, Mia Feldman, Jessica Goldberg, Sherlan Greaves, Brandon Loo, Marina Ordonez, Roberto Palomeque, Miguelina Portorreal, Catherine Priolet, Lindsay Ruotolo, Jeffrey Schneider
The project proposes distributing a diverse set of devices across New York City to convert carbon-based waste into materials that improve soil quality and boost plant growth. The goal is to empower citizens to participate in a dynamic new network for waste management.
Instructor
Denise Hoffman Brandt
Denise Hoffman Brandt, RLA is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at the City College of New York and Principal of Hoffman Brandt Projects, LLC. Her work focuses on landscape as ecological infrastructure — the social, cultural, and environmental systems that generate urban form and sustain urban life.
Advisor
Karin Block
Karin Block is a geochemist/petrologist conducting research in the way minerals evolve in geobiological, geothermal, and magmatic systems. Currently, her main focus is on the interaction between microbes and common low-temperature minerals (clays), the effect of clays on bacteria and virus viability, and how microbe-mineral aggregates stabilize organic and inorganic metabolic products in aquatic and soil environments. Karen is also involved in the development of cyberinfrastructure (geoinformatics portals and databases) as a collaborator in the IEDA Facility at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.