From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org, sbccssc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [permaculture] City Repair Project, A Street Corner Revolution with Mark Lakeman Thur, Oct 4, 7:45pm, 2007, Santa Barbara CA
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:21:56 -0700
City Repair Project, A Street Corner Revolution
Slide Show & Talk with Mark Lakeman
Thur, Oct 4, 7:45pm, 2007
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
Donation $5
Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires and guides the
grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons
with Portland's City Repair Project ( www.cityrepair.org), with a
lecture and slide show on Thursday, October 4th, at 7:45pm.
Now a national movement, City Repair is about cities, towns, grids
and the intersections where our lives can converge.
Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning,
anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and
ecological design in projects that transform public space. Formed in
1996, City Repair was conceived as an "anti-virus" to combat
isolation and over-commodification of conventionally designed cities,
by literally inserting villages into cities.
Trained as an architect, Mark Lakeman is a founding member of the
City Repair Project, and the creative director of the ecological
design firm Communitecture. Each Spring he coordinates the Village
Building Convergence, an annual event sponsored by the city of
Portland that brings architects, planners, and artists together for
ten days of concentrated work with neighborhood residents and
volunteers. He has traveled extensively in southern Mexico where his
inspiration for community living came from living with traditional
Mayan peoples.
The lecture and slide show take place on Thurs, October 4, at 7:45pm
for a donation of $5, no reservations are needed. It will be held
at the Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu
Street, Santa Barbara, CA. For more information call (805) 962-2571,
or email margie@sbpermaculture.org. The SBCC Center for
Sustainability and the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sponsor the event.
**Also, special lunchtime program:
Nuts and Bolts City Repair with Mark Lakeman
For on the ground County and City Planners, politicians, community
leaders and architects.
Noon -1pm, Thursday, Oct 4 , 2007, FREE
Santa Barbara Public Downtown Library, Faulkner Gallery
[permaculture] City Repair Project, A Street Corner Revolution with Mark Lakeman Thur, Oct 4, 7:45pm, 2007, Santa Barbara CA,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 09/23/2007