Moving Images
Circular Visions: Binghamton through the Eyes of Youth (2024)
This is a video created in the course CRP 3850/5850: Circular Cities and Research to Action, taught by Dr. Jennifer Minner in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. The video traces the efforts of high school students from Binghamton and Vestal High Schools who are studying concepts of circularity. It was directed by Chengyu Wang, a Master of Regional Planning student.
Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance webinar on Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice (2024)
Embodying Justice in the Built Environment is a framework presented in a series of guides and workbooks for government agencies and community organizations seeking to center justice and equity in their work toward building carbon-neutral futures. The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance funded this research, and its staff and member cities participated in its creation. Watch a webinar about the first guide and workbook about circularity and waste.
The Story of CURTA-Y (2023)
This is a film about the Cornell Urban Research to Action - Youth (CURTA-Y) program created by Just Places Lab researcher and filmmaker Chengyu Wang and Cornell AAP Communications.
Dreaming-on-Hudson (2022)
This is a film created by Melody Chen and the Just Places Lab about Kellen Cook's Dreaming-on-Hudson project. This project involved the creation of interactive mapping activities and place-based lessons that engage students’ spatial imaginaries and root sociological concepts in place and lived experiences. These activities and lessons constitute the Dreaming-on-Hudson curriculum, which was implemented at Ossining High School in Ossining, NY, within the SUNY Racism, Classism, and Sexism (SUNY Race) course during the 2022-23 school year.
Freshkills Park: An Introduction - Part 1 (2022)
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 (2022)
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.