About this project
`A Sustainable TreeHouse is an exhibit/art piece on Governors Island in the New York Harbor that is slated for the summer 2011 season. The project will be an exercise in sustainable design. The tree house and surrounding playground activities will be created entirely from reclaimed and sustainable materials. Sustainable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy will be used to power the interactive activities surrounding the tree house. The TreeHouse is one part playground, one part classroom. While encouraging the viewers to play and enacting nostalgia, the project is also meant to serve as an educational tool to teach about sustainability issues. The project brings together both kids and adults through hands-on activities and sets an example of how to use reclaimed materials both on a small and large scale level.
This Kickstarter represents the minimum amount that I will need to construct the TreeHouse. It covers costs for the tree house alone. The satellite activities will be fund raised for separately through grants and other donations to realize the full design.
You can download the full project scope here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/xwvo13
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on February 26, 2011.
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Club Iniates Will receive a custom designed members club card, their name on the donor plaque and an invite to the members only picnic to be held at the TreeHouse.
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Club Secretary: All of the above with the addition of a signed 10x12 print of the finished TreeHouse.
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Club President: All of the above with the addition of getting your named carved into the TreeHouse walls. We can do it for you or you can do it yourself, if that's your thing.
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Benjamin Jones grew up in upstate New York and attended college at Syracuse University with a degree in Set Design for Theater. He moved to NYC in 1999, where he has been working in the fields of architecture, acoustics and sculpture. Most Recently, Benjamin Graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a Masters degree in Exhibition Design.
Granted Installation Projects:
2009 Figment Arts Festival: Season Long Sculpture Garden, “Discarded” Governors Island, NYC, Black Rock Arts and Greenwall Arts Foundation Grants
2008 City of Dreams Mini-golf Course, Governors Island, NY “RollerBall” Figment Art Grant
2007 Burning Man Art Festival, Black Rock Dessert, NV “The Trees”, Burning Man Art Grant
Installations:
2005-2006 Burning Man Art Festival, “Lego Block City” Black Rock Dessert, NV
2003-2005 Wonderland Art Collective “Please Touch” Queens, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2004 Gallapgos Art Space “Arts and Sciences” Brooklyn, NY
2003 Redux Gallery “Surfaces”, New York, NY
Residencies:
2002-2004 Wonderland Art Collective, Queens, NY
Miscellaneous:
Founder of Gnome Camp Art Project http://www.gnomecamp.com
