The following projects have been awarded a Green Grant from the Office of Sustainability.
Environmental & Climate Justice Curriculum
Project co-leader: Kiersten Blake, ‘20 (Liberal Studies) and Alexia Leclercq, ‘20 (Gallatin)
This project seeks to build up the knowledge base of youth using a city/state/national politics lens to view, discuss, and address issues as they pertain to the students’ environment and community in the Bronx and Harlem. The lessons will include both teacher-led instructional learning and project-based learning through hands-on activities, field trips that will supplement lessons, and guest speakers who will share their expertise.
IDM.Grow
Project leader: Vanessa Harden, Adjunct Professor (Tandon, Integrated Digital Media (IDM))
An integrated program committed to promoting sustainability and social justice within the design field by providing students the opportunity to actively engage in an impact-led design process. This program connects students with real stakeholders who are experiencing existing challenges related to agriculture and food access.
Our Home: A Sustainable Eco-Haven for Homelessness Resiliency
Project leader: Michael Brittenham, ‘20 (Gallatin)
This resiliency hub project is intended to act as an example for how urban homelessness, hunger, and loss of biodiversity can be more sustainably addressed and solved. The project team will be developing a dynamic green rooftop design that captures rainwater, harnesses solar power, and grows plant life, as well as an integration of modular farming planters, hydroponics systems, and green walls for the ground and wall areas at their site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Sustainable Soft Circuits
Project leader: Kathleen McDermott, Assistant Professor (Tandon, Integrated Digital Media (IDM) and Department of Technology, Culture & Society (TCS))
This project aims to develop a “material research library,” for integrating solar and other sustainable power solutions into wearable art and technology designs. The results of this research will be documented physically in the IDM prototyping lab in NYU Tandon, and also made publicly available online.
The V,OID (Volunteers, Organized in Disorder)
Project leader: Sophie Jones, ‘21 (Gallatin)
This project will convene a group of volunteers—both students and professors—working to emphasize community-based responses to the climate crisis and to democratize environmental education. The V,OID plans to create an educational platform which will include a website, a podcast, a list of recommended literature, a zine series, a calendar of relevant events, and a forum for online communication.
Learn more about the Green Grants program and projects currently underway.
Green Grant awards are for up to $20,000 and are for projects that address the university’s operational performance, foster environmental literacy and community engagement, advance applied research and design, expand sustainability learning opportunities, and demonstrate the viability of best practices and technologies for sustainability.
Current NYU students, faculty, administrators, and staff at any NYU global site are eligible. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and the next deadline is Sunday, April 5.