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Public Programs
Celebrando las Acequias: Water + Resilience
Summer 2011
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Celebrando las Acequias: Water + Resilience
Summer 2011
The Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University is sponsoring the 2011, a free series of public discussions and presentations recognizing the role acequias play in the growing of food in the community and honoring those who take care of the water – the mayordomo. The event begins Friday night June 10 through Sunday afternoon June 12, 2011 in Dixon, New Mexico.
Location:
Celebrando las Acequias_Summer 2011
Mission Embudo
Dixon, New Mexico
Lecture Series
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design
2010_2011
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design
Lecture Series: 2010_2011
The human need for water has ordered landscapes, given rise to culture, and shaped architecture + urban form throughout history.
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design examines the role of water engineering in shaping public space and city form, by using arid and semi-arid sites in India, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the New World to explore how dryland water systems throughout history have formed and been formed by ritual, hygiene, gender, technology, governance, markets, and, perhaps above all, power.
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design brings together historians, urbanists, and contemporary designers to selectively excavate global historical case studies and reveal relevance to contemporary design practice.
Excavating Innovation: The History and Future of Drylands Design participants include:
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Aziza Chaouni + Liat Margolis Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Morna LivingtsonThursday, November 18th, 2010
Nan Ellin, PhD
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Vinayak Bharne
Dilip da Cunha
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Water Design Workshops
Smart Design Strategies: Managing Water + Energy in a Changing Climate
Spring 2010
Smart Design Strategies: Managing Water + Energy in a Changing Climate
Spring 2010
The Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University is hosting a series of free workshops designed to introduce homeowners, business owners, real estate developers, students, and design professionals to water- and energy-conserving design strategies.
Workshop_1: Smart Buildings: Green Roofs/Green Walls
Saturday, March 27th
9 am – 3 pm
Linda Taalman,
Deborah Richmond, AIA,
Stephanie V. Landregan, ASLA,
Workshop_2: Smart Landscapes: Yard, Driveway, Sidewalk, Street
Saturday, April 3rd
9 am - 3 pm
Fritz Haeg,
Holly Harper,
David Fletcher,
Workshop_3:
Saturday, April 17th
9 am - 3 pm
Leigh Jerrard,
Jenna Didier,
Workshops are short (9-3 on Saturdays), free, practical, and open to the public. Applicable to both new construction and retrofits, workshops provide designers and citizens with basic information and follow-up resources for making smart, low-carbon design decisions related to water and energy.
With a focus on the small-scale, leaders will guide participants on how to make the most of local rainwater and recycled municipal water through:
• rainwater harvesting;
• greywater systems;
• green roofs/green walls; and
• water-smart landscaping strategies for yard, garden, driveway, sidewalk.
In addition to providing practical nuts-and-bolts information, workshops will also:
• showcase case studies in design excellence.
• focus exclusively on projects in arid and semi-arid climates; and
• situate designs within the guidelines for energy efficiency set by the US EPA’s Energy Star standards;
• address issues of low-impact development, building code, and permits.
Each workshop will be led by a team of design professionals, offering a range of approaches within a range of budgets. Workshops will focus on small-scale projects, from the single-family dwelling and small business, to the pocket park and community garden.
Workshops are offered in partnership with the as part of a major grant from the to provide design and planning assistance to citizens seeking smart design strategies for water and energy conservation.
Location:
All workshops will be held in the Ahmanson Main Space on Woodbury University's Burbank campus:
818 767 0888
woodbury.edu
The 2009 Lecture Series and Discussion Series presents ideas from critics, writers and makers who are rethinking business-as-usual approaches to prosperity, with the express aim of prompting architects and designers to reformulate visions for an intelligent built environment.
The series is organized in a multi-disciplinary approach grouping architects, urbanists, writers, makers, politicians, and economists together for participation in informal discussions.
The series will touch on issues of food, water, energy, transport, housing and alternative visions for the built environment and asks the following questions of its participants:
-How, through the remaking of our cities, can we foster the particulars of place and identity in the face of global monoculture?
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How can growth agendas be defined by local and community concerns and values?
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What is the role of the (landscape, architect, urban) designer in visualizing alternative possibilities for the overtaxed landscapes and outdated economies of the Urban West?