Blue Trail: Imagination + Innovation for Ocean Sustainability (2012-14)

Blue Trail is a series of interactive Art-Design-Tech-Science Installations envisioned along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. Blue Trail brought together the vision and expertise of leaders across the art, design, placemaking and environmental fields. As the Founding Director of the project Jennifer Parker worked with the leadership to design, envision, and produce the project.

Project website Blue Trail

Held in the fall of 2012, the Design Jam was a day of collaboration and competition involving over 60 artists, designers, tech experts and ocean experts brought together through an open call. Excitement was high not only for the unique opportunity to cross disciplines, but also to compete for a possible commission.

Designed as a laboratory for imagination and innovation, the day kicked off with “meet and greet” activities as well as presentations by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences and the United Nations Safe Planet Campaign.