Mannahatta 2409: a work in progress

Eric Sander­son, ecol­o­gist and cre­ator of Man­na­hatta 1609 and the Welikia Project, is now lead­ing a team to cre­ate a new ver­sion of Man­na­hatta: an inter­ac­tive tool that will let vis­i­tors exper­i­ment with the design of the city of the future. On the fol­low­ing video, pre­pared by Arts​Fwd​.org for the Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion, you can see the devel­op­ment of Man­na­hatta 2409 tak­ing shape.

 

 

As described on the web­site for the project:

“Man­na­hatta 2409 will be a map-based web appli­ca­tion meant to inspire, inform, and gen­er­ate new ideas about sus­tain­able urban forms from the many diverse peo­ple who love New York City, Man­hat­tan in par­tic­u­lar. We want to engage every­one, from city offi­cials to school­child­ren, in the search for eco­log­i­cally informed sus­tain­abil­ity, as mea­sured by eco­log­i­cal per­for­mance indi­ca­tors related to of car­bon, water, bio­di­ver­sity, and population.”

The project is planned to launch in the Spring of 2013. Progress can be fol­lowed on:

man​na​hat​ta2409​.org

man​na​hat​ta2409​.blogspot​.com

welikia​.org/​e​m​a​i​l​/​n​e​w​s​l​e​t​t​e​r​-​s​i​g​n​up/

Man­na­hatta 2409 is a project of Dr. Eric Sander­son and the Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety in part­ner­ship with the City of New York Office of City Plan­ning, Ter­rapin Bright Green, and Human Nature Projects, and is a recip­i­ent of a 2011 Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion Cul­tural Inno­va­tion Fund award.