Category: conferences
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Ecological Urbanism – Introduction Part 1
‘Ecological Urbanism‘ (640 pages, Lars Müller Publishers; 1 edition (May 1, 2010) edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty) literally arrived with a thud last week, the 650 page brick like tome touching down on the front step of the house with much anticipation. Tempted as I was, a number of deadlines made me hold…
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Living System Design
A great video with a lecture on ‘The Practice of Living System Design” (via Arch Daily): “William Reed AIA, a nationally recognized sustainability expert and architect at the Integrative Design Collaborative, Regenesis and Delving Deeper, spoke on developing a whole-systems design process that lifts building and community planning into full integration and co-evolution with living…
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Green Engines
I stumbled upon the site for Green Engines, a project of StudioMEB, which is a “… research platform that explores the potentialities of productive landscapes to generate a self-sustainable territory.” I was immediately struck by their notion of productive landscapes and the focus of the research on landscape urbanism principles. The interest in defining productive…
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Where the Revolution Began
The passing of Lawrence Halprin has close ties to an upcoming book that is being released this weekend celebrating his legacy in Portland. This Saturday is a chance to celebrate the legacy of Halprin in Portland, with the release of ‘Where the Revolution Began: Lawrence and Anna Halprin and the Reinvention of Public Space’. On…
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As We Found Them… As We Leave Them
A provocative image found in an email from the local Audubon Society email offers the visual of ‘As We Found Them… As We Leave Them’, a Jay “Ding” Darling cartoon from 1923, as a statement about the state of our rivers in the face of urbanization. The reason for the email was an upcoming hearing…
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Elements of Urban Agriculture
I had the opportunity today to see a presentation by local urban agriculture guru Marc Boucher-Colbert (the man behind the Rocket Restaurant rooftop garden here in Portland). Instead of focusing directly on rooftops, he outlined a broad version of urban agriculture through an investigation of a range of possible strategies for our cities. This is…
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Bat Yam 2010
I posted here about the 2008 Bat-Yam international biennale of landscape urbanism, and was pleased to get an email annoucing the upcoming 2010 version focusing on Urban Action. The Bat-Yam Biennale functions as a laboratory through which attitudes in and towards urban space are examined. A variety of sites throughout the historic city of Bat-Yam…
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Experimentation in Modern Communication
I’m not necessarily against new media options, but as one who does not ‘tweet’, I’m curious to see the results of this upcoming forum hosted by Balmori Associates on What Should a Public Place Be? Conducted 100% via Twitter be sure to check it out on July 13th, and who knows, if it is a…
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Ecological Urbanism – Podcasting Now
I was really excited to see that the Podcasts of the Ecological Urbanism conference at the GSD (from early April) are now available… for those of us unable to make the trek to check it out live. While a 100×200 pixel image isn’t the same as a conference, I hope this trend continues with other…
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Ecoroof Vendor Fair
It was great to spend Saturday hanging out with an energetic group of vendors and members of the community nerding out on Veg.itecture… good times. Spreading the gospel of the green and GreenWorks. :: image via GreenWorks