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Rosa Weinberg is a design educator and artist based in Massachusetts.



CREATIVE PRACTICE

Attunement
Shimmer
Digital Polished
Breathing
Love is About
Anna’s Delight
Stethosuit
(more)

TEACHING

Beaver Centered Design
Extraordinary Ordinary
User-Centered Design
Juxtapose
Intro to Architecture
Easing Cerebral Palsy
Neighborhood Marvels
(more)

misc.

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We Won’t Float

2014

ROLE

Artist and Fabricator

COLLABORATORS

Students at the Designery, Allison Deninsky, Natalie Zanecchia

MATERIALS + METHODS

Cast concrete
Installation

Ink Block Boston

PHOTOGRAPHY

Saurabh Mhatre, Ian Butterworth

We Won't Float was an installation about sea level rise. In collaboration with YouthBuild Boston’s Designery, I served as artist and fabricator to teach a studio of high school students from Boston Public Schools about public art, mold-making, casting and mapping. Concrete ducks cast in a reusable mold made from a pool floatation device are to be placed around Boston. They playfully and soberly marked locations that are predicted to experience flooding due to sea level rise and storm surges. Like a concrete floatation device, our cities are currently not set up to protect us from rising waters.

I could not have done this project without the help of the wonderful high school students at the Designery, Allison Deninsky, a fantastic Northeastern architecture undergraduate on her Co-op at the Designery and Natalie Zanecchia, a gifted graphic designer and friend.

This project met an untimely end at Ink Block Boston.

We Won’t Float

2014

ROLE

Artist and Fabricator

COLLABORATORS

Students at the Designery, Allison Deninsky, Natalie Zanecchia

MATERIALS + METHODS

Cast concrete 
Installation

Ink Block Boston

PHOTOGRAPHY

Saurabh Mhatre, Ian Butterworth

We Won't Float was an installation about sea level rise. In collaboration with YouthBuild Boston’s Designery, I served as artist and fabricator to teach a studio of high school students from Boston Public Schools about public art, mold-making, casting and mapping. Concrete ducks cast in a reusable mold made from a pool floatation device are to be placed around Boston. They playfully and soberly marked locations that are predicted to experience flooding due to sea level rise and storm surges. Like a concrete floatation device, our cities are currently not set up to protect us from rising waters. 

I could not have done this project without the help of the wonderful high school students at the Designery, Allison Deninsky, a fantastic Northeastern architecture undergraduate on her Co-op at the Designery and Natalie Zanecchia, a gifted graphic designer and friend.

This project met an untimely end at Ink Block Boston.