Archive for Projects & Initiatives

Musssels in their Winter Spot. Sculpture update

The sign says, “Don’t Touch, fragile below. Mussels wintering below the freeze line. To be removed in Spring 2025 Estuary Educational Project The MoS Collective participants are occasionally joining me in a controlled stumbling forward, I’m following through with all the unexpected cascades from an idea that created serendipitous cascades. in an effort to catch up to […]

The Dressy Bessie of Bioremediation

(Dressy Bessie is a doll from the 60’s).   All photos copyrighted. All photo copywrite dd maucher unless otherwise indicated. Request permission and name credit pin back to here, Thank you – much appreciated. Link to page: http://wp.me/p2bm5T-5AX  

Urban Soil Institute Residency Continued

Urban Soil Institute Residency Continued Summer 2023 Bioremediation experiment Apply to join us as the Science Partner!  Testing the efficacy of the sculpture ingredients. It is the continuation of Last summer ‘s proposal for a residency at Urban Soil Institute (USI) which shares space in the SWALE house on Governors Island, New York City, a few MoS […]

Invite to 10/2 The 8th MudBall Ball

  October 2nd, 2021 The 8th MudBall Ball A part of LUNGS NYC Harvest Arts Festival 2-7 pm El Jardin Del Paraiso.  Between 4th & 5th streets & Ave C & D 10 E 5th St, New York, NY 10009 The Masters of Succession Collective presents the culmination of a week of individual offerings to the community called The Plaza […]

Invite 9/25 to 10/1 The Plaza Of The Wind Offerings

The Participants of Beneficial Succession present  The Plaza of The Wind Offerings 2021. Celebrating the fall harvest of the plaza fig tree & out artistic processes. A Harvest Week: We have invited neighbors to share what they love to do with you. We have kids, wellness, performance, workshops, dance and play. Detailed schedule below. 2021 9/25 to 10/1  join us OUTSIDE of Grace Performance […]

Call for Offerings May 2021

The Plaza of the Wind Offerings May June 2021 Hellooo ! Announcing MoS Collective joins Grace Exhibition Space to activate the outside plaza for Covid safe activities, engagements. From mid May & mid June. The Lower East Side will be explosive with outdoor life this Spring and Summer. The indoor arts scene will be outside MoS Collective art supporting regenerative ecosystem […]

2/10 MoS Announces ‘21 Sculpture

February 10, 2021 join our zoom! Earthcelebrations.com Ecological City Pageant presentations. MoS Collective’s DD Maucher will announce the concept for this year’s FBS! Join the FBS movement! Contact us!  Sign up on Eventbrite to receive Zoom link RSVP – Free – Limited Tkts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecological-city-art-climate-solutions-zoom-planning-meeting-tickets-135712699337     A brief retrospective Floating Bioremediating Sculptures (FBS) in the past three […]

Be a Snow Angel! ❤️Help today!

Be a snow angel and join us with a contribution to regenerative lifestyles in public soace programming! We can meet now on a great 2d platform. A global community moving toward beneficial succession — cascading betterment where possible. GiVE HERE & Project Details: https://ioby.org/project/plaza-wind-offerings We started 10years ago as MôS Collective. We aim to be closed loop […]

The Scene Behind The World

This etched photograph is from college pin hole camera assignment. : i made a three hole pin hole camera. It took sheets of  kodalith film. I painted the box blue and called it “The Big Blue Clodhopper with the Despotic Swagger”. I carried this clodhopper around. I placed it down, as I waited as it didn’t captured […]

Exponential Serendipities

The Ephemeral Piazza, EP, is a pubic space that grows through living relationships after which it is the needs that grow the spaces & places. The EP can be anywhere and is everywhere and can be somewhere.   It is your fantastical place but it is not a dream, it’s real. It’s a place to BE […]

10/31 Grace Ceremonial Key Transfer

10/31/2020 Halloween Evening! MoS Labs is succeeded by Teresa Byrnes, a master of beneficial succession, at Grace Exhibition Space. After 6 months of MoS research and development, growing Living LoBS at GES, Teresa Byrnes will receive the very special opportunity to create in this space for 6 months.   DD will continue to grow the […]

Join the Ephemeral Plaza!

It’s for this Winter! It’s a map of a place we co-create and connect live. We can see each other on the map as these munchkins we select as avatars. Because of the people I know in the permaculture, gardening, art, activism and improvisation communities, I’m influenced. What I’m experimenting with is lifestyle— a quality of life, […]

Story Mapping Craze

More on story telling! It’s a hot topic because we have this global pandemic pause and an election. Many people are asking for our stories. The ones we choose to share could help all beings & the earth. The stories are there, here, we’ve already written and told them. Let’s walk into those stories. What’s you’re story […]

Phase 5: Doodling Fantastical Futures

MoS LoBS Lab last month in Residence at Grace Exhibition Space! October Phase 5 (of 6) in our Journey from microbes to metropolis.October we are in Fantastical Futures. We are pushing the limits of imagination to doodle the future with the roots of the past on which to build the fantastical.   Open house patio […]

Make A Mini Me

Hi possible Mini You, We are making a miniature model village piazza that manifests when people come together then it fades away when they leave. They leave a better trace. Sounds like the eco version of burning man. BUT And However we are doing this on video so an any size of you is acceptable. You […]

The Piazza: The Outdoor Community Center

To donate toward MoS Labs community workshops and outdoor activities on the Piazza. Click here. Dive in! Expenses for such an endeavor would be $30k a month with two full time plus teaching artists and materials. We are poised here amongst the performance artists. So far we have $120 from many people in $1-$20 increments from the […]

July 6-12: Tour the MôS Labs installation

I invite you to experience Microbes to Metropolis presented by MoS Collective, created by Dee Dee Maucher, resident artist at Grace Exhibition Space. 182 Ave C  ny ny 10009. We set up a laboratory for Lifestyles of Beneficial Succession. Follow the chronicles and allow your own stories to unfold. Take an hour walk through for two people.  Listen to our stories, […]

6/27/20 Beneficial Succession at Grace Exhibition Space

live and zoom. MoSLabs Presents Lifestyles of Beneficial Succession (LoBS) at Grace Exhibition Space.  Outside Saturday 6/27/2020 6-9:30pm   Private Tours of MoS Labs LoBS 6/25 to 27.  Inside Grace RSVP   Detailed schedule, FB link and participation  on this link.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HybXJlrMy3r2KbDnz6BjYHFXF5zty3nHqTMaPo-vhlk/edit Intro – Mugwort/Wormwood tutorial by Betty T Kao – Cat Nettling by JK Canepa – 30 […]

PlanLES

MoS is working with a team of beneficial succession designers. Our Corp group is Stewart Hoyt Artist & Green Builder, Center For Bioregional Living with Andrew Faust, Wendy Brawer of Green Map, Paul Mankiewicz of Gaia Institute & Dee Dee Maucher of Living Systems Design. We are designing a plan and drawing of the Lower East Side […]

Gaia & The Sun

This above image captures what took place after the Ecological City Pageant.  The story is still playing out at Grace Exhibition Space inside at C/11.  Here the sun & Gaia are still at the Bladderwrack East River pond. This shows Gaia having gone for a swim from the raft lounge. She went for a dip […]

Growing Super Foods for Earth & Us: Day 4

Dee Dee growing, cultivating, brewing, incubating food at Grace Exhibition Space. Click for youtube video tour of Day 4 DD Maucher is inhabiting Grace Exhibition Space during lockdown COVID-19, 182 Ave C NYC.  She is growing immune boosting foods as she lives her life behind this glass facade. It’s a time for contemplation, heightened listening, […]

The Beautifying Pushcarts Of Ave C

In April & May look out for 6 pushcarts on Ave C! Initially proposed for the community by Masters of Beneficial Succession MoBSters to help us beautify the avenue.  Debut is sighted for LUNGS Spring Awakening mid April. To partner or help bring this project to light contact us or go to MoS Collective at […]

3,333 Floating Sculptures

For the last two years dd, of MôS Town in the Land of MôSs, has made, with help, floating sculptures for a community ecological pageant on climate solutions. They have become Dressy Bessys of bioremediation (Doll with a variety of closures from 60’s). She uses the ingredients and supplies from the MoS Hpmmmm toolkit: The MoS […]

[DD] Nurah’s Garden & Hospitality Center

Nurah’s Garden & Hospitality Pavilion is a living systems design for the Muslim Women’s’ Institute for Research & Development (MIWRD) created by DD Maucher for Jeff Deasy, who is known for his work as a member of Board Finance Committee of Housing Works, Inc. MIWRD is a new center in the Bronx that runs two […]

Lake Anne Permaculture Design Plan

Here is the Permaculture Design Plan for Lake Anne Village. I 2009 All rights reserved DD Maucher. Republish for education and non for profit only. Background: The county and place of Reston gas been for yard trying to regenerate economy in this village center. Once big box and lots of shopping choices moved the money […]