[Sdpg] Advanced Permaculture Design Workshop Aug/Sept 2006 Los Angeles

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Advanced Permaculture Design Workshop
to design the park at the internationally renown Ambassador site in 
Wilshire Center, Los Angeles
http://www.laecovillage.org/UseUpcoming%20events.html

Three weekends:       August 12 and 13, Saturday & Sunday
                                     August 19 and 20, Saturday & Sunday
                                             September 2 – 4  (Labor Day 
Weekend)

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 actual designing with sessions of in-depth 
instruction on various aspects of creating sustainable, integral 
permaculture designs.

The final workshop designs will be considered by the park’s planning team 
to make the project permacultural.

Sponsors:
The workshop is sponsored by the CRSP Institute for Urban Eco-Villages and 
the San Jacinto Mountains Permaculture Institute in association with the 
Wilshire Enhancement Group http://www.wilshirecenter.com/weg.htm, the Los 
Angeles Permaculture Guild and the South Coast Permaculture Guild

Location:
Los Angeles Eco-Village and nearby venues, including the Park Site

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

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

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

Pre-regististration is required (click here for registration form):
Send $100 deposit to CRSP by August 5.  Mail to:
CRSP - Advnced Permaculture
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

More about Scott:
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.  Scott travels to 
Tlaxcala State in Mexico each year 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.