OUR MISSION: REVIVE PUBLIC LIFE
The "watering hole" has always been where people from all walks of life have socialized. Casual opportunities to create things along the water initiate a dialog across social boundaries countering the isolation of a device-oriented society.
At Riveropolis, we
CREATE
irresistable products and environments inspiring children and adults to rediscover art, craft, play and story.
FOSTER
a casual and creative social atmosphere aimed at reviving public life.
DELIGHT
the senses with the inspiring properties of moving water.
SITUATE
projects in diverse communities and locations.
Since I was a kid I've always returned to running water to feed my imagination. Finally, it occured to me that the creek itself was the work of art I wanted to bring back from the forest. - Gregory Gavin, founder of Riveropolis
Gregory Gavin, artist, inventor, and educator has designed site-specific art installations for schools, museums, neighborhoods, and public places since 1991. Gavin's projects ranging from woodworking to film making to interactive waterworks have engaged a broad diversity of participants often to both create and exhibit work in public space. His projects have been particularly successful in overcoming the obsessive segregation of children, teen, and adult activities into separate realms in a way that he feels damages the transfer of intergenerational knowledge and discovery.
GREGORY GAVIN AT TEDx
Artist Gregory Gavin set out to use the engaging properties of water to invigorate public life and ended up creating a new kind of classroom. Only in a world with consequences, he argues, can children truly be engaged, take on responsibility and become creative agents.