Project Growing and Greening: PlaNYC and the Future of the City

Client Museum of the City of New York Curator Maura Lout


The exhibition addressed the complexities of greater environmental sustainability from the individual perspective. Based upon the Bloomberg Administration's five-borough plan for sustainability by 2030, the exhibit linked the six essential areas addressed in PlaNYC—water, transporation, energy, open space, land and climate change—with a typical day in the life of a New Yorker. The exhibition guided the visitor through a reevaluation of routine activities and their collective impact on the environment while also offering alternatives for making these actions less harmful and highlighting innovations that will lead to greater sustainability. The exhibition featured architectural models, interactive displays, diagrams, renderings, photographs, hands-on examples of new materials, videos, and more, many of which were created expressly for the exhibition.
                         Photographs: Bilyana DimitrovaPhotographs: Bilyana Dimitrova