EVENT INSTALLATION WITH AN AFTERLIFE

HOLDING PATTERN
P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island City, New York
2011

Interboro

Piggybacking Tactic
Capture a Waste Stream

HOLDING PATTERN, Interboro’s project for the MoMA P.S.1 Young Architects Program, is notable for the way it expanded the ambitions and possibilities of what is, on its face, a temporary summer installation. More than merely fulfilling MoMA’s project brief of providing a dynamic stage for a summer festival, Interboro designed their installation with the project’s afterlife in mind, realizing not one but two projects—the first for P.S.1, the second for the local community. They did this by overlaying the needs of MoMA patrons with the needs of a diverse array of neighborhood organizations, and, in essence, by designing for all these groups simultaneously. At the end of the installation’s time at P.S.1, the 79 objects that Interboro designed and the 84 trees they planted all found new homes among 50 local community organizations. Rather than simply serving an institutional client temporarily, Interboro's designs aimed to serve a wider community of clients over the longer term.