Re: [TheUWfarm] Designing for Urban Food Events NEXT WEEK!

The organizers of this event are interested in the UW farm being one of the ten charrette stations, where the farm could get a chance to present what you have for your expansion plan and get feedback and ideas from faculty, students, and professionals from several design disciplines. 

Moving forward with the content of the charrette station needs to happpen quite rapidly though, so if someone or a small team of farmers could step forward in the next day to coordinate this with the CBE Urban Agriculture event organizers.

Sam Kraft

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Alex Tulinsky <atulinsk@u.washington.edu> wrote:

here's more detail on these two events at the College of Built Enfironments



Thursday, April 15 @ 6:00 pm – Arch Hall 147  

CBE Urban Agriculture Speakers Panel and Ideas Charrette Launch – Exploring the Role of Design in the Urban Food Movement

Please join us for a crossdisciplinary panel on the role of design in the urban food movement highlighting design professional and academic leaders. This event launches the all-day urban agriculture Design Ideas Charrette on Friday, April 16. The panel will bring together Jason King, blog author and landscape architect from Portland, Deb Guenther from Mithun, and Keith McPeeters from GGN, with Jeff Hou (author of the recent book Greening Cities, Growing Communities, and chair of landscape architecture) as moderator. Introducing the panel presentation will be faculty members Branden Born, Ken Yocom, and Gundula Proksch who will discuss a crossdisciplinary studio on vertical farms in urban settings (specifically for a housing project in Seattle - Yesler Terrace).

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Friday, April 16 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Gould Court  

CBE Urban Agriculture Ideas Charrette -  Exploring the Role of Design in the Urban Food Movement

Please join us for this all-day Design Ideas Charrette! You can drop in anytime throughout the day. Please plan on spending at least 1/2 hour.
The design ideas charrette, while a stand alone event, intends to dovetail with one of many community-driven events inspired by the Mayor's announcement. "Spring Into Bed", an event on May 8th organized by Cascadian Edible Landscapes and multiple partnering organizations, aims to greatly increase the number of food gardens in Seattle in one day. With the help of volunteers, garden builders will create/install 100 edible landscapes across the city, spanning a variety of urban food garden types. In support of this initiative, we will intend to generate at least 100 design ideas that may be used as inspiration for the garden builders, spark conversation in the design community, and that can be developed further in the future as desired.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Michelle Harvey <michelle.ann.harvey@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all -

There is a really cool event happening next Thursday/Friday about designing for Urban Food systems.  This is coming out of the College of Built Environments - See attached flier.

Thursday, April 15 Architecture Hall 147, 6 pm
Interdisciplinary Panel discussion on the role of design in the urban food movement

Friday April 16 Gould Court, 10 am - 7 pm
Ideas charrette! Stop by for any length of time to discuss urban food system design ideas!

-Michelle

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College of the Built Environments
University of Washington (Seattle)

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