Nine Mile Run Greenway Project

The unifying theory of the Nine Mile Run Greenway Project is reclamation as an integrated ecosystem restoration that embraces the complex goal of "nature" in the context of contemporary urban culture. The latest issue of Society for Ecological Restoration   reflects this interdisciplinary complexity, "restoration practices which hold firm to ecological fidelity and embrace social and cultural goals are much more likely to prosper and endure."

http://slaggarden.cfa.cmu.edu

3 Rivers 2nd Nature

a five-year project that addresses the meaning, form and function of the three rivers and 53 streams of Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania. This project builds on the success of strategic creative inquiry, ecosystem analysis and community dialogue developed by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry through the Nine Mile Run Watershed project . 3 Rivers 2nd Nature consists of an interdisciplinary team of artists, scientists and a policy expert. The project addresses aquatic, terrestrial, and social issues of our rivers and streams, conducting an analysis of the green infrastructure (structural elements of a naturally functioning river ecosystem) that provides social, aesthetic, ecological and economic benefit to the Three Rivers Region. From these 3 subject areas our goal is to produce strategic knowledge that helps citizens and decision makers understand the evolving opportunities of our post-industrial waterfront.

The STUDIO is a center for experimental and interdisciplinary arts in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Founded in 1989, the STUDIO connects artistic enterprises to academic disciplines across the Carnegie Mellon campus, to the community of Pittsburgh and beyond. The STUDIO's mission is to support creation and exploration in the arts, especially interdisciplinary projects that bring together the arts, sciences, technology, and the humanities, and impact local and global communities. 

http://www.cmu.edu/studio