In my efforts to collaborate with other agents of change, Stephen has been working with Artists In Context and renowned artist, engineer and activist Natalie Jeremijenko to bring her Environmental Health Clinic to Boston as a field office. The results here are the initial designs that will be prototyped over the upcoming months in anticipation of a spring farmers market launch.If part of my charge is walking the walk, by being a resource to our clients, the profession, we need to be a driver of change to bring sustainability to the many corners of our audience. We need to be sure we give access to information that helps our audience make informed decisions. The delivery of this information will come in many forms and the deployable clinic will serve as one of many venues. Embedded in the design is the ability for the venues to not only be set up anywhere, but also in the forms that allow the message to be delivered clearly.Purpose and ProgramThe field office will act as an on-site, readily deployable, center for the Environmental Health Clinic. Through teaching clinics, the center will optimize the exchange of information. The center also presents the opportunity for the selling of goods such as farm produce & vegetables and EHC products like the AgBags. The field office can also act as a stage for the receiving of prescriptions, which are one-on-one’s with the ecological "pharmacist". The modularity would allow for multiple means of setting up the clinic as space allows, or constricts, such as a farmers market plot.I look forward to continuing contributions to this effort not just through design but to serving as an instructor (“farmicist”, clinician, et al). With the deployment of Plants-2-Planning initiatives like Roxbury Gardens, I see a great deal of synergies in our efforts.
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