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The Village Lives with Mark Lakeman, The City Repair Project, Portland, Oregon

Date:
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
David Baker
Location Details:
New College of California/North Bay
99 6th St., (6th & Wilson Sts. in Railroad Square)
Santa Rosa

Saturday, Sept. 29, 7:30 pm. The Village Lives with Mark Lakeman, The City Repair Project, Portland, Oregon. A 1.5-hour slide presentation that shares the story of The City Repair Project and its sister design firm Communitecture, in Portland, Oregon. The presentation is chronological, proceeding from the most accessible scales to enormous, visionary collaborations involving thousands of people. As an overall movement, each project repeats the essential principles of localization, community participation and placemaking, while building upon each success to manifest larger and larger impacts. As both an organization and a larger movement, City Repair inspires and guides the transformation of the grid infrastructure of the typical American city into a vital social commons. As a multidisciplinary culture, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform space and transfer power at local levels. Through a restorative process in which citizens re-imagine and literally re-build their own commons, we are engendering relationships that revitalize the fabric of our local communities 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. For more information, visit http://www.cityrepair.org.
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