permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

City Repair/Mark Lakeman Autumn 2007 Presentation Tour CA &OR

Event Calendar:

* Saturday, Sept 29, 7:30pm- New College of
California,
  Santa Rosa, North Bay campus

* Sunday, Sept 30, Workshop with New College Students,
  Contact New College for more information.

* Monday, October 1st, 6-9pm, for Willits
  Economic Localization Initiative, Willits Community
  Center, Willits, CA.

* Tuesday, October 2nd, Regenerative Design & Nature
  Awareness School with Jon Young & Penny Livingston,
  near San Gregorio, Evening Presentation,
  at 415-868-9681.

* Wednesday, October 3rd, Esalen Institute at Big Sur,
  Daytime workshop and evening community-wide
  presentation.

* Thursday, October 4th, in Santa Barbara:
  - Noon-1pm, "Nuts and Bolts of City Repair", Public
    Library, Faulkner Gallery.

  - 7:45pm, "The Village Lives" Presentation, Public
    Library, Faulkner Gallery.

* Saturday, October 6th, UCLA Planning School,
Graduate
  Student Conference, Presentation and Workshop in the
  Field. Call Ava at 818.939.9205

* Tuesday, October 9th, 7-9pm, Soulutioneers 2007
  Speaker Series, 1950 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.

* Wednesday, October 10th, 6:30-8pm, An Architects,
  Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility
  Event, Pacific Energy Center 851 Howard Street.

* Thursday, October 11th, Evening Event, in Point
  Reyes, Time and Location TBD.

* Alternate Date:
  Friday, October 12th, 6-9pm, for Willits
  Economic Localization Initiative, Willits Community
  Center, Willits, CA.

* Monday, October 15th, 7-9pm, Lost Valley Educational
  Center, near Eugene, Oregon. From Interstate 5
  driving south: Take exit 188A (Highway 58) towards
  Klamath Falls. After 8.7 miles, turn right onto
  Rattlesnake Road. After 3.7 miles, turn right onto
  Lost Valley Lane. Continue .9 mile, then turn right
  into driveway at LVEC sign.

City Repair Project
www.cityrepair.org

As both an organization and a larger movement, The
City Repair Project inspires and guides the
transformation of the grid infrastructure of the
typical American city into a vital social commons. The
multidisciplinary nature of City Repair defies
categorization. Similar to Permaculture design, it has
become a national movement for social and ecological
restoration operating in a landscape characterized by
isolation and compartmentalization. The project takes
Fritjof Capra's 'Tipping Point' as a model for
paradigm change by intentionally focusing upon
intersections in space and time. City Repair is
directly reclaiming those intersection points,
converting spaces of collision into places of
convergence, and opening the field for what
automatically happens when people reunite with their
Place: everything.

This presentation compares the historic settlement
patterns of village societies with the dominant forces
of Western colonization as a context for describing
City Repair's work. As revealed through this visually
stunning event, the multidisciplinary culture of City
Repair combines architecture, urban planning,
anthropology, community development, public art,
permaculture and ecological design in projects that
transform space and transfer power to local levels.
The presentation is chronological, proceeding from the
most elementary and accessible project scales to
enormous visionary collaborations involving thousands
of people. Each project restates the same essential
principles of localization, community participation
and placemaking, but the forms always change and grow.
As an overall movement, each project builds upon
previous successes to manifest larger and larger
impacts.

Through a restorative process in which citizens
re-imagine and literally re-build their own commons,
City Repair is engendering relationships that
revitalize the fabric of our local community within
the existing context of social isolation.  By
re-asserting localized village patterns in the city
grid, City Repair establishes both the physical and
social foundation for sustainable culture.






















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