[Sdpg] Advanced Permaculture Design Workshop August 12 and 13, August 19 and 20 ,September 2 ­ 4 Los Angeles CA

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Advanced Permaculture Design Workshop

Three weekends:
August 12 and 13, Saturday & Sunday
August 19 and 20, Saturday & Sundy
September 2 ­ 4  (Sat., Sun & Mon. - Labor Day weekend)

Design Challenge:
To design the park at the internationally renown Ambassador site in 
Wilshire Center, Los Angeles Participants in the three-weekend intensive 
workshop will design aspects of a 60,000 square-foot public park in 
Wilshire Center/Koreatown near downtown Los Angeles on one of Los Angeles’ 
busiest and most visible transportation corridors, Wilshire Boulevard. The 
park is adjacent to a new multi-school complex in the planning stages on 
the historic site of the former Ambassador Hotel, world renown for its 
celebrity and political stars.  There are no urban public parks of this 
size in the U.S. that we are aware of that are designed by permaculturists!

Participants will learn in-depth mapping and scale drawing, water 
collection and management, native and useful plants for sustainable public 
spaces, community and stakeholder processes. The majority of the workshop 
time will be devoted to in-depth instruction on various aspects of creating 
sustainable, integral permaculture designs in the context of actual design 
work.

The final workshop designs will be considered by the park’s planning team 
to make the project permacultural.  The workshop is co-sponsored by the 
CRSP Institute for Urban Eco-Villages, the Wilshire Enhancement Group, and 
the San Jacinto Mountains Permaculture Institute.

Location:
Los Angeles Eco-Village and nearby venues, including the park site

Pre-requisite for participation:
You must have completed a permaculture design course

Instructors:
Scott Horton and guests, including Dr. Bill Roley

Fee:
$550, including all materials and lunch each day.

Pre-regististration is required:
Send $100 deposit to CRSP by August 5.  Mail to: 117 Bimini Pl.,  #221, Los 
Angeles CA  90004

Contacts:
For additional registration info, contact Lois Arkin crsp at igc.org 213/728-1254
For course content information, contact Scott at lasemillabesada at hotmail.com

Sponsored by:
CRSP in association with the San Jacinto Mountains Permaculture Institute, 
and the Wilshire Enhancement Group in association with the So. Calif. & 
L.A. Permaculture Guilds

See backside for information on Scott Horton

More about Scott Horton

Scott Horton is a permaculturist, eco-artist and writer living in the San 
Jacinto Mountains of Southern California.  He is editor of the Permaculture 
Activist, the oldest periodical on the topic with the largest circulation 
in the Americas. He teaches annually at The Ecovillage Training Center at 
The Farm in Summertown, TN, and through the Permaculture Institute of 
Northern California, Portland Community Colleges, Pacific Northwest College 
of Art, advanced permaculture at Lama Foundation in Taos, NM, and in Mexico 
under the auspices of Organi-K and Tierra Viva community.  He annually 
travels to Tlaxcala State in Mexico, where he is a designer and partner 
renovating the 16th century Hacienda Santa Barbara Chapultepec to become a 
rustic eco-inn, permaculture and cultural center for the region.  He has 
taught permaculture workshops to groups ranging from pre-school students to 
MBA candidates at UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School and from advanced 
design workshops to natural building with the Punks in the Iztapalapa 
district of Mexico City. He has studied permaculture, natural building and 
eco-village design with Penny Livingston-Stark, Alejandra Caballero and the 
Zopilote Foundation in Mexico and elsewhere. His writings on permaculture, 
ecology, nature and the arts have been published in recent issues of 
Ripples Magazine, Britegreen.com, Hopedance, Chamber Music Magazine and 
others, and he was guest editor of Communities Magazine’s Spring 2005 Art 
in Community issue.

  In his artwork, Scott uses natural materials, patterns and systems in 
nature to bring human attention to the environment in unusual ways while 
restoring or creating habitat.  His works with seeds, living plants, soil, 
natural fibers, honey, water, resins, smoke and the 
interaction/intervention of animals and climate over time prompted Ripples 
Magazine to call him the “Handyman of the Unseen”.  He was a 2003-2004 
Artist-in-Residence at Caldera Art and Ecology Center in Sisters, OR, where 
he created the Center’s first site-specific works and was one of five 
artists invited to participate in a Caldera group exhibition at 
Wieden/Kennedy in Portland, OR.  He has created site-specific works in 
California, Oregon and North Carolina and for the Lama Foundation in New 
Mexico, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, CO; The Farm in Tennessee and in 
Mexico.  His works on paper and fiber are included in private collections 
in California, Oregon, New Mexico, Wyoming, New York and Mexico. He 
currently is working on a large-scale, site-specific work in Topanga, CA, 
integrating indigenous land management practices and sculpture to boost oak 
trees’ immunity to sudden oak death to be installed in September.

  Scott studied musicology at the University of Southern California, where 
he specialized in medieval polyphonic music, and is a 25-year veteran 
public relations and marketing consultant to non-profit organizations. He 
recently closed his consulting practice and moved from the San Francisco 
Bay Area to the mountains in Southern California to devote full time to 
walking the talk of practicing permaculture and making art.