The Museum of Reclaimed Space functions as New Yorks urban activism epicenter; most predominately they maintain a green thumb group of volunteers and gardens within the East Village. It’s surprising to see a group still functioning with anti-establishment ideals given the current political climate. They stand their ground and have had many small successes in their goal for keeping urban garden spaces accessible to the public. Their gardens encourage decrepit space renewal which house many innovative, sustainable and experimental environmental concepts and will soon utilize many new technologies to help maintain and segregate their spaces from corporate control. It was amazing to see how functional, beautiful and practical many of these gardens are. The research and development gone into many of these gardens although DIY show great technical prowess; and it would be phenomenal to see how these gardens would function; and what these gardens would look like with proper funding and engineering support.
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