What: Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront
Where: Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York
When: March 24 – August 9 2010
Who: P.S.1 and MoMa. Barry Bergdoll chief curator of architecture and design MoMa

On March 24 the Rising Currents exhibition will open at the MoMa of New York, it is the last phase of the unique and innovative ongoing program conceived by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Centre in Long Island City to address the potential of climate change on New York’s coastline.

The exhibition will be showcasing the proposals evolved by five multidisciplinary teams – architects, landscape designers, urban planners and artists – during an intensive architects-in-residence held at PS1 from November 16 2009 to January 8 2010. The subject of the teams work was to rethink New York’s waterfront in face of rising sea levels due to global climate change.

Each of the five teams SCAPE, Matthew Baird Studio, nARCHITECTS, ARO/dlandstudio and LTL: “not chosen on the basis of a design, but rather on the basis of a promise for interdisciplinary innovation, working on problems that are global in implication but local in application and design” was assigned a different study area of the Upper Bay waterfront to develop new visions for a resilient and sustainable city.

The project proposals, which focus at large on ‘soft’ proposals, encompass energy production and use, ecological health, sewage overflows, and global green shipping they can be viewed, followed and discussed on MoMA/P.S. 1′s Inside/Out blog, where expert guest bloggers are contributing to the program with their perspectives on the work developed by Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront