CARE Phase I
C.A.R.E.-Phase I (2021) invited public educators to a 5 day/4 night residency in the Hudson River Estuary, focusing on kayaking and camping as immersive, transformative pedagogy. It honored the estuary’s ocean tides that flow twice a day, and was deeply inspired by Lenape’s upstream navigational wisdom.
During the multi-day trip, we:
1. accessed and enlivened several places along the banks of the river, promoting a ‘blue commons’ approach;
2. recalibrated our perception of needs toward frugality, decarbonized means of transportation, and device-free inhabitation;
3. accessed to Croton Point State Park via non-fossil fuel means (typically, kayakers arrive to this site in motorized vehicles);
4. engaged with tools and skills for convivial, consensus-oriented decision-making during;
5. understood the trip as an amplification of joy while acknowledging grief;
6. became familiar with eco-centric practices and perceptions, including the recognition that, in the words of one participant, ‘the river is kin;’
7. safely re-enacted Lenape tidal navigational wisdom.
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Estuarian Commons
Estuarian Commons-Phase I