|
The Water DataShed Project
By Water Works
featuring Miriam Belblidia, Jen Roberts, Tyler Antrup, & Jennifer Ruley Garden Study Center at the New Orleans Botanical Garden
6:00pm | June 11th
$15 Public/ $10 USGBC Louisiana Members Presentation Summary:
The Water DataShed presentation will focus on how cities can use public spaces to engage and reconnect communities with their watershed. Public spaces, such as the Lafitte Greenway, present educational opportunities to tie together ecological, historical, and cultural dimensions of water. This presentation will showcase the proposed Water DataShed as an example of how simple design features, coupled with low cost environmental monitoring tools, can create interactive spaces that allow citizens to be active participants in their watershed. Learning Objectives: 1. Attendees will learn how the Water DataShed project is an example of utilizing public spaces as educational opportunities to reconnect communities to their watershed. 2. Attendees will learn how ecological, historical, and cultural dimensions of water can be incorporated in public landscapes. 3. Attendees will learn how community members can participate in environmental monitoring. 4. Attendees will actively participate in the workshop, giving feedback on the Water DataShed design and helping brainstorm ways in which social media, tactile, and audible components can make public spaces more interactive and educational. Project specifications: - Interactive - Focus on data collection/citizen science - Tying together ecological, historical, and cultural dimensions of water Audience benefits: - Can use the Water DataShed concept as a model for integrating watershed education into other public spaces/projectsPRESENTED BY:
  
|