Alfa Development's latest addition to its Green Collection of sustainable properties targeting LEED Gold Certification, 200 E 21 Gramercy, will be hosting an exhibition and series of events to celebrate Earth Day 2018. The events will center around a month-long interactive exhibition OSMUNDA installed at Gallery 151, a gallery founded by Alfa’s CEO Michael Namer 10 years ago.
OSMUNDA is a 3-week experiential lab, exposition, and artist residency focused on reconnecting the thread between humanity and nature. By showcasing biophilic art, technology, workshops, and grassroots projects the event aims to activate New Yorkers to adopt sustainable practices.
Osmunda: Earth Day is part of a weekend city-wide festival United Gaia: Earth Weekend Celebration in collaboration with The Sonic Jungle, Future Clear, Peace Accelerators + we are SUPERNATURAL - NYC. All ticket holders get preferred entry all day! We kindly ask that you RSVP.
Gallery 151: 245 West 14th Street
An interactive workshop led by a panel of professionals working in food justice that examines how we can eat and consume food to support a regenerative economy.
Featuring: Karen Washington Rise and Root Farm, Jason Grauer Stone Barnes Center for Food and Agriculture
Gallery 151: 245 West 14th Street
An interactive workshop led by activists from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and other local organizations who are working to clean New York City's waterways. Participants will explore the problem with an action-oriented mindset and ideate solutions with Osmunda facilitators.
Gallery 151: 245 West 14th Street
Luke Namer is the founder of Redefined Films and an award-winning documentarian. Born and raised in New York City, Luke was inspired by the book Mannahatta by Eric Sanderson, which illuminated the thread between modern New York society and its history as an immensely biodiverse area. With Osmunda, Luke aims to prompt large communities of New Yorkers to spark deeper connections between themselves and the natural world and to engage visitors in sustainable practices for their own lives and neighborhoods.
Clear Studios is a holistic architectural design studio committed to creating dynamic, sustainable spaces through layers of medium. Conceived in the high mountains of Peru, Clear Studios aims to honor the earth through consciously integrating architecture, nature, technology as one. With Osmunda, Clear Studios creates an immersive, interactive environment to illuminate an embodied understanding that we (the people and the city of New York) are not separate from nature, we are nature.
Alfaʼs guiding principle is best articulated by the theme line: “History, architecture, and sustainability on a human scale.”
In 2007, the company launched its commitment to sustainability with their first development of a LEED-Gold certified residential condominium . Since then, Alfa Development team has crafted an expertise in green building and continues to follow their mission of creating more sustainable living experiences in all of their future projects. Its newest development targeting LEED-Gold Certification is 200E21: Gramercy.
