As part of the environmental approvals for Boston's Big Dig highway construction project, four acres of the reclaimed surface land were designated to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society to build a glass-enclosed botanical center and accompanying outdoor gardens and support facilities.
In the begining of 2004, the Boston Planning Institute, Inc. proposed the Darwin Project vision for Boston Botanical Garden and Conservation Learning Center.
The Darwin Project team formed a Scientific and Creative Advisory Board to guide us in our mission and bring forward ideas to create a wonderful cultural facility. Through the guidance of E.O. Wilson and several other talented and creative individuals on this Board, we have every opportunity to succeed.
Our core project team of planners, architects, horticulturists, exhibit designers, biologists, and educators has the exciting challenge of bringing these concepts to reality.
As of Spring 2005 we have developed a detailed program, design concepts, business plan, and strategy for a capital campaign. We are working with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority to develop a not-for-profit corporate and leadership structure with the capacity to move the camapign and project forward
As the process evolves, we continue to work closely with the City of Boston and the Turnpike Authority and invite the public to participate in defining this next great place in Boston.
| Darwin
Project Directors The Boston Planning Institute |
| Linda Mongelli Haar, President, Boston Planning Institute Jonathan Haar, Principal, Boston Planning Institute |
| Darwin Scientific & Creative Board |
| Honorary Chair and Senior Science Advisor |
| Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D., Harvard University, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus; Curator in Entomology Museum of Comparative Zoology |
| Senior Advisors |
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Dr. David E. Moller, Vice President, Metabolic Disorders, MERCK Research Laboratories;former Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Brian D. Farrell, Professor of Biology, Curator of Coleoptera, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Linda M. Haar, AICP; M.P.H. Harvard School of Public Health; Loeb Fellow 2003 Jonathan Haar, AICP; A.B. Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard College; MBA Wharton |
| Chair |
| Andrew W. Torrance, J.D., Ph.D., Harvard University, Harvard University, Biology; Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology Jonathan Haar, AICP; A.B. Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard College; MBA Wharton |
| Members |
| Peter
S. Ashton, Ph.D., Univeristy of Oxford Gabriela
Chavarría, Ph.D., Harvard University William C. Clark, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Kennedy School of Government, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, MacArthur Fellow Marilyn
Roode Decker, Science Senior Program Director Meredith
C. Fisher, A.M., Harvard University Alex Krieger, AIA, Chan Krieger & Associates, Architects, Cambridge, Massachusetts Julie Moir Messervy, Landscape Designer Bruce Stahnke, AIA, Stahnke and Kitagawa Architects William M. Tomlinson, Ph.D., MIT, University of California Irvine, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Computer Science Douglas Zook, Ph.D, Clark University, Boston University Associate Professor of Education Curriculum and Teaching |
| Technical Advisors |
| John Beck, Director, New York Open Center Arnd Bruninghaus, A*haus Group Architects-Planners Laura Cabo, AIA, Principal, Graham Gund Architects Warren Heilbronner, Esq., Partner, Sullivan & Worcester, LLP Clare Long, White Mountains National Forest Service Gary Pomerantz, Principal, Flack + Kurtz , MEP design |
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