Orca School & Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network
Presents:
City Repair Project: A
Street Corner Revolution
Slide Show &
Talk with Mark Lakeman
Monday, May 2, 6:30 - 8:30pm 2011
Goleta Public Library
Donation $10- $20 Sliding Scale
Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires
and guides the grid structure of a typical American city into a
vital social commons, with Portland's City Repair Project
(
www.cityrepair.org ), with a lecture and slide show on Monday, May 2, from
6:30-8:30pm at the Goleta Public Library.
Now a national movement, City Repair is
about cities, towns, grids and the intersections where our lives can
converge. Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture,
urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art,
permaculture, and ecological design in projects that transform
public space. Formed in 1996, City Repair was conceived as
an "anti-virus" to combat isolation and over-commodification
of conventionally designed cities, by literally inserting villages
into cities.
Mark Lakeman is an architect and creative
director of the ecological design firm Communitecture. A
founding member of the City Repair Project, Lakeman helps coordinate
the hugely popular Village Building Convergence, sponsored
annually by the city of Portland, that brings architects, planners,
and artists together for ten days of concentrated work with
neighborhood residents and volunteers. Lakeman has traveled
extensively in southern Mexico where his inspiration for community
living came from living with traditional Maya peoples.
The lecture and slide
show take place on Monday, May 2, at 6:30 - 8:30 pm for a
donation of $10-$20 (sliding scale), no reservations are
required. The event will be held at the Goleta Public
Library, 500 North Fairview Ave,
Goleta CA, 93117.
For more information: www.sbpermaculture.org, (805) 962-2571, or
email
wes@sbpermaculture.org.
~Sponsored by Orca School & Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network~
Event co-sponsors:
SBCC Center for Sustainability Cities As the Solution series &
Santa Barbara Food Not Lawns
More Info/Additional
Resources:
YouTube:
Transform Space into Place with Mark
Lakeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq0exoGySc&feature=related
Sustainable World Radio
Interview with Mark Lakeman:
Visionary architect Mark Lakeman talks about the inception of the City
Repair movement, and his mission of creating villages within cities.
By reclaiming urban spaces, we can transform cities into places of
beauty, art, creativity, and connection.
http://pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/city_repair
About Orca School:
http://orcaschool.org/
Orca School offers
academics supported by the arts, theater, music, foreign language,
handwork, community service, permaculture, and time in nature. Grades
pre-K through 8, with Santa Barbara's first mixed age forest
kindergarten.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
wes@sbpermaculture.org
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