NY2050 THE FUTURE IN :30 seconds or 5 minutes

What is your vision of the future of New York? New York 2050 wants to know.

How to participate:
1] Communicate your vision in a video either approximately :30 seconds or 5 minutes long.

2] Send your vision on DVD, mini DV tape, or VHS tape by March 31st, 2005 to:
Andrea Polli
Film and Media
Hunter College
695 Park Ave. NY, NY 10021

3] Select videos will be shown in a video installation at the New York Center for Architecture in May 2005 and in other venues throughout the 5 boroughs.

Not sure where to start? Consider the following questions:
-In the future, what might New York City and its individual neighborhoods look like?
-How will transportation, work, the environment, architecture, health, food, social activities, and family life change?
-What effects might demographic change, climate changes, popular trends and developments in technology and healthcare have upon urban life in mid twenty-first century New York?
-How might urban life in 2050 remain the same or similar to 2004?

About NewYork2050
NewYork2050 seeks evocative ideas that represent people’s greatest hopes, fears, and expectations for the city circa 2050. We aim to tap the creativity of New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds

NewYork2050 is a two-year project to encourage long-term thinking and holistic solutions to urban issues by facilitating a public conversation about the future of the city. The project has several components, including research on trends in motion likely to affect the 21st century city; engaging the city’s artistic community in envisioning possible metropolitan futures; consulting with a wide range of citizens about what kind of city they want their children and grandchildren to inherit; and getting their informed proposals for action onto the desks of decision makers.

A partnership of New York institutions - Gotham Center for New York City History of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Pratt Institute, the New School, the Municipal Art Society, the Regional Plan Association, Citizens for NYC, the American Institute of Architects - New York Chapter, and the Urban Assembly - has launched the project.