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The Great Richmond@ Staten Island Art's Culture Longue

From the press release :   The Great Richmond is a crowd-sourced public sculpture/interactive diagram that is a collaboration between sculptor Will Corwin and cartographer Neil Greenberg. Corwin and Greenberg have collaborated on a monumental game-based installation that invites participants to re-imagine Staten Island, and their own particular environment, as they might want it to be: by turns a return to a semi-mythological sylvan and pastoral utopia, a much more built-up urban metropolis—a continuation of Manhattan and Jersey City across the harbor, or, on a controversial note, a seceded Staten, a new city in the constellation of the Northeast Corridor. This project is a natural extension of past work by the collaborators. Neil Greenberg works in between the disciplines of urban planning, transit implementation, and cartography. His project “Fake Omaha” invented a new American city and used this thought problem to design solutions to the very real con...