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  • From: Mitra <mitra_lists@earth.path.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Street Farmers (1970's)??? Any info????
  • Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:50:42 +0530


Last i heard Peter was director at the Alternative Technology Center in Machynlleth - I don't have them bookmarked but search on the correct spelling of Machynlleth (I just massacred it) or "National Center for Alternative Technology" and you should find it.

I think in the 80's Godfrey was at ITDG (intermediate technology development group)

I remember seeing this stuff in Undercurrents, but I don't remember seeing any examples of things that had actually been done, rather than just advocated.

- Mitra
(currently in India)

At 12:15 PM 4/19/2000 +0100, Graham Burnett wrote:
A little off topic (perhaps no less so than the requests for info about the wartime 'Dig For
Victory' campaign that recently appeared on the gardening lists- to my mind it's all in the same
tradition :-), but a request for info...

I've just been reading in Peter Harper & Godfrey Boyle's 'Radical Technology' (published in the
70's by 'Undercurrents' Magazine- itself a classic of the era) about a group active in London in
the early seventies called the Street Farmers, who took their inspiration from the Situationist
International and events of Paris 68, and advocated basically ripping up the streets and pavements
and planting them up with fruit trees and vegetables, as well as radical architecture concepts like
urban estates consisting of living houses created from bamboo, etc....

Does anybody out there have recollections of this group, or copies of the magazine they published
in 1972, which apparently contained "a series of fantastic collages and cartoons" which articulated
their vision?

I'd love to know more + see these visions!

In anticipation,

Graham Burnett
35 Rayleigh Avenue
Westcliff On Sea
Essex, UK
SS0 7DS

South East Essex LETS
http://pages.unisonfree.net/gburnett/





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