MoMA's Projects for NYC's Waterfront

March 10, 2010 By: Meagan Drillinger

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Calling all environmentalists. New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center have organized an initiative to propose solutions for the effects of climate change on New York's waterfronts.

Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront will cap off with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art from March 24 through October 11. The exhibition will showcase architectural proposals designed to help making New York City and surrounding areas more resilient in responding to rising sea levels caused by global warming.

Some of the proposals involve creating salt- and freshwater wetlands along the city's banks, habitable piers, manmade islands and a protective reef of living oysters.

The project is organized by Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA.