Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture
New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)
European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Venice Architecture Biennial 2021
WALKACROPOLIS is a project by Gotham Innovation Greenhouse, designed by Jee Won Kim, Carl Skelton & Patrick Bermingham.
What if people were more important than cars? What if walking was the preferred mode of transportation? The idea of the WALKACROPOLIS urban walkway is to elevate pedestrians to a new level.
The project aims to take thousands of pedestrians “off the street” to a safer, brighter, quieter, more civil, and civic higher ground, providing new vantage points to see the city while facilitating and supporting autonomous vehicle circulation the ground level.
In addition, WALKACROPOLIS allows new reasons to walk while integrating new technologies for interaction and communication with pedestrians.
Pedestrians will be able to walk 1 kilometer in 15 minutes, allowing them to meet and greet each other as fellow citizens rather than as obstructions in their path.
Patrick Bermingham
Bermingham is an internationally recognized artist whose career spans decades. With a BFA in Sculpture, Bermingham has studied with and apprenticed with several renowned artists, including Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Sir Anthony Caro, and Tim Scott. Bermingham participated in the first Canadian Wildlife exhibition in 1974 together with Robert Bateman and A.J. Casson. Bermingham frequently travels to Chile to work in the studio of Francisco Gazitua, whose large-scale public installations and sculptures can be seen in multiple countries, including three iconic public sculptures in Toronto and several in Chile. Bermingham has exhibited his work in the United States and Canada and recently completed a commission for the International Operating Engineers Union, Local 793, and created a memorial garden honoring the over 30 fallen members of the union. Bermingham also created a commemorative sculpture for Lee Academy to honor an 11-year-old student who died tragically in 2011.
Carl Skelton
Skelton, Dr. -Ing. directs the Gotham Innovation Greenhouse in New York and the Centre for City Ecologies in Toronto, working at the forefront of development of new tools and practices to support collaborative participation in urban design, planning and governance.
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