Oyster City in Residence on Governors Island

Building 110, Governors Island

Oyster City (Meredith Drum and Rachel Stevens) will be in residence in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Building 110 on Governors Island from March through July as a participant in the 2013 Swing Space Residency. We’ll be developing Oyster City, our AR walking tour and game about oysters in NYC, in situ, as one of our sites is on Governors Island, just a minutes long boat ride from Manhattan. The nearby NY Harbor School has been cultivating oyster beds there, reflecting a recent trend in exploring oyster cultivation as a counter to environmental ills such as polluted water and eroding coastlines (and hurricanes). Some recent articles in the NYTimes are here in my Oysters, Cities and Systems Storify stream.