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Bed-Stuy Aquarium: Fire Hydrants by the People

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Bed-Stuy Aquarium: Fire Hydrants by the People An Interview with Artist Hajj-Malik Lovick by Theodora Dryer On August 3, 2024, a leaky fire hydrant in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, transformed into a community art project after block residents placed a hundred feeder goldfish in the water pooling around it. Two months later … Bed-Stuy Aquarium: Fire Hydrants by the People

Water Intelligence Project

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The Water Intelligence Project (WIP) seeks to disrupt the pipeline between water innovation and water law. Globally, dominant forms of water governance are mediated through systems of computation. Digital technologies, algorithms, and other data structures are therefore at work in governing decisions about water and natural resources, often without structures of public information and accountability.