[Scpg] [Lapg] Advanced Permaculture Design Workshop Augu st 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.




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