Mark will shares some tools and techniques on how to guide your community to create places for gathering, localized food, energy, water systems, and invisible structures for reconsidering and repairing every scale of community habitat.
Early Bird Registration Ends Oct 1!
Mark is a national leader in the development of sustainable public places. In the last decade he has directed or facilitated designs for more than three hundred new community-generated public places in Portland, Oregon alone.
As co-founder of the non-profit placemaking organization The City Repair Project, and principal of the community design firm Communitecture, Mark works with governmental leaders, community organizations, and educational institutions in many diverse communities, and has been instrumental in the development of dozens of participatory design projects and organizations across the United States and Canada.
Hope to see you there!
-The Living Mandala Team
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Re-Designing the Commons:
Urban Transformation, Placemaking, & Village Building
With Mark Lakeman
Oct 24 26, 2013
Friday Evening: 7 - 10pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Course Description
The places where we live will be as fulfilling and abundant as we decide. Though much appears out of balance on our path to resilience, we actually have all that we need to transform the conditions of our lives, to repair, rebalance, and restore the neighborhoods, towns and cities where we live.
Over 50% of the world's population now lives in urban centers and the number is growing. Adopting strategies to meet our needs in a sane and ethical way is critical. In this workshop, we will learn how to design and implement strategies which can transform your life, your neighborhood, your city, and the world!
This course will present urban permaculture strategies that anyone can use to transform their local and regional circumstance. From inspiring participation by local communities to engaging elected leadership and bureaucracies, we will provide experienced insight about how to increase cultural development and creative activity while diminishing ecological impacts.
We will present various City Repair-style project initiatives that have been successfully tested in the field. These will include Intersection Repair street transformations, Block Repair retroactive village-making on typical semi-urban blocks, large scale simultaneous local activations such as the Village Building Convergence model, as well as ephemeral interventions that are celebratory and socially based. We will look at the big picture that you can affect at the local scale, and then drill down into details about how to organize people and implement projects while having the time of your life!