Grounded Growth uncovers the hidden narrative of one of the world’s largest distributed freshwater reserves: aquifers. Where we grow food and how we build in relationship to groundwater demands urban and architectural attention. Using two of the most over-pumped landscapes in the world—the Indo-Gangetic plains and Sonoran Desert—Grounded Growth features designs for new agrarian communities in each region that naturally replenish aquifers and increase agricultural production. Drawing on lessons learned from Venice’s system of cisterns, the installation’s models and drawings foreground aquifers as a shared commons that can collectively shape farms and cities. If aquifers are not engaged as a common resource, then we will see the same effects of millions of privately owned, atomistic technologies used to bleed the earth dry.
Participants
ANTHONY ACCIAVATTI, Decatur, USA, 1981. Lives and works in New York, USA, and Internationally.
Technical Collaborators
Devin Dobrowolski
Team
Jessica Chen, Grace Brooks, André Capocchi, Bobby Chun, Grace Dube, Kewei Li, Michael Brittenham, Justin Sze Wai Kong, Holden Miles, Elmira Moskvina, Stormy Hall, Sida Tang, Paddy Mittag-McNaught, Christy Ho, Lauren Sexton, Jonathan Chu, Sara Mountford, Tini Tang, Kristen Perng, Omar Martinez Zoluaga, Sinda Tang, Josie Triana, Eric Wang, Bohan Chen, Colin Morse, Ada Newman-Plotnick, Annette Gutierrez Hall, Erin Bascom, Kostas Tingos, Hope Chao, Samantha Ong. Sombo Sisay
Thanks
Yale University
Supporters
Yale School of Architecture; Yale South Asian Studies Council; American Academy in Rome; Lopud Foundation; Djerassi Resident Artists Program; MacDowell; American Institute of Indian Studies
