Just Places Lab Videos
Freshkills Park: An Introduction (Part 1)
In operation from 1948-2001, Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island became the largest household garbage dump globally, receiving 150 million tons of New York City's solid waste. It was in the early 2000s that the conceptualization of landfill-to-wilderness park entered the civic conversation, and thus began a radical transformation. Today, it is the largest of its kind on the planet.
This is a film following artist Jade Doskow at Freshkills Park. The video was created by Just Places Lab videographer Melody Chen and the videography and research team: Wyeth Augustine-Marceil, Kellen Cooks, Jennifer Minner, Yu Wang.
Freshkills Park: Jade Doskow Photographer-in-Residence (Part II)
Jade Doskow, as the Freshkills Photographer-in-Residence, is creating a photographic archive of a major chapter within the story of New York City's infrastructure, no less massive an undertaking than the creation of Central Park in the 1850s. Doskow's photographs make clear the site's ethereal, paradoxical beauty and infrastructure, highlighting the undulating meadows as well as the methane pipes punctuating the rolling hills.
This is a film following artist Jade Doskow at Freshkills Park. The video was created by Just Places Lab videographer Melody Chen and the videography and research team: Wyeth Augustine-Marceil, Kellen Cooks, Jennifer Minner, Yu Wang.
A New Wilderness: Freshkills Lecture by Jade Doskow at Cornell University
Lecture on October 14, 2022 as part of the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial.
During this time of climate catastrophe, Freshkills Park offers a compelling view of how visionary urban planners can take a landscape that has been destroyed and resurrect it, transforming the garbage of the U.S.'s most populous city and creating grasslands replete with rare species of flora and fauna and waterways once again attracting marine life. Doskow's work asks: if 2,200 acres of New York City's household waste can be transformed into glorious meadowlands and woodlands, what else is possible?
CR0WD: An introduction (2021)
This video was created by Just Places Lab film-maker Melody Chen. The video includes Jason Rearick and Jennifer Minner of the Just Places Lab, Felix Heisel and Andrew Boghossian of the Circular Construction Lab, and Susan Holland of Historic Ithaca.