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Urban Alliance for Sustainability Playshop

Placemaking, Restoring the Civic Ecosystem & Natural Building- Hands On

This one will be fun- we get to play in the mud!!!


Saturday, June 30 2007
10:00am to 4:00pm

Location:
Brooks Park (Shields at Ramsell)
San Francisco, CA


GoogleMap: tinyurl.com/ypkwco
Park Info: www.sfnpc.org/brooksparkhistory
more details: www.uas.coop/node/578
RSVP at Playshop@uas.coop


*Join the Urban Alliance for Sustainability for a day of practices we can apply to work in "restoring the civic ecosystem". The morning will begin with a class, Introduction to Cob Building. Materials, methods, design, and structure will be discussed and we will do hands-on building. We will study the first layer of existing cob bench in the park and plan to complete it. When the work is done we will break for a local, organic, vegetarian UAS lunch. The afternoon will follow with a discussion on how we can affect the built environment to create community spaces and cultivate a sense of place. This particular park, Brooks Park, was a high drug traffic area years ago, and the neighborhood wanted it back, thus started hanging out there all the time. Eventually they created it as their place and installed their own community garden, play structures, and this cob bench we will be working on. We will be exploring other placemaking tools and history of taking space and making place.

A UAS Playshop is like a workshop without the work, intendended to be fun, informative, and inspiring. Hence PLAYshop ;)


Cost: $15-20 donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds


Our teachers for this event are:

Lindsay Wilson - Permaculture Designer

Lindsay started her earthen building journey with an indigenous permaculture training in 2002 with Grupo Maya. Since then, she has helped build two cob tool sheds, a cob cottage, and a cob bench, and she has helped replastering an adobe house (all in California!). Wanting to know if large earthen structures could indeed exist and last on this planet, Lindsay flew to India's international, intentional community - Auroville. There she took a seminar in Compressed Stabilized Earthen Brick (CSEB) and witnessed many amazing local structures. Other interests include herbal medicine, yoga, and group processing.


Kachina Katrina Zavalney- City Repair, Urban Alliance for Sustainability

As a grass-roots organizer, deeply rooted in any community she joins and works with, Katrina synchronizes with the indigenous heart beat and inspires people to achieve more. She has a gentle push that motivates people from deep inside. She loves to be involved in progressive communities that facilitate systemic change. Kachina Katrina has been referred to as a master networker, connecting broad spectrums of people together through important issues and innovative solutions. She has learned and practiced community building, cob building, and organizing skills with the City Repair Project, Portland since 1999, becoming their national outreach coordinator.



About Urban Alliance for Sustainability (UAS):

UAS seeks to integrate and inspire the sustainability movement in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. By returning focus to solutions instead of problem statements, UAS hopes to activate the energy of those individuals and organizations that are feeling overwhelmed or helpless in this currently unsustainable world.

For more information or to get involved, visit www.uas.coop.


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Please come! It would be great to see you.

unity,

Kachina da greena!