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Creative Time and The Architectural League Present MARJETICA POTRC AND BUNKER ROY: URBAN INDEPENDENT Friday, September 27, 2002 6:30 pm Lighthouse International 111 East 59th Street, NYC For member reservations please call 212-980-3767 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] League members free, non-members $10 For information call 212-753-1722 On Saturday, September 28, as part of Creative Time's "Consuming Places" exhibition, Marjetica Potrc will be joined by Bunker Roy, Aleksandra Wagner, Detroit artist Kyong Park, and the New York design partnership Gans & Jelacic for a public presentation and discussion moderated by Lebbeus Woods. The presentations and discussion will be the culmination of a day-long closed workshop in which participants will be exploring models of participatory urban planning and considering scenarios for application in New York City. This event is free and open to the public. Saturday, September 28, 4:30-6:30 PM The Stable, 16 Main Street at Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn F to York Street, A/C to High Street For more information about the Saturday event, contact Peter Eleey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________ Marjetica Potrc, the Slovenian artist and architect, and Bunker Roy, director of the Social Work Research Centre in Tilonia, India, are committed to the importance of individual initiative in planning and building architecture and infrastructure systems, and the delicate balance between modern technologies and traditional methods. In her work, Ms. Potrc explores shantytowns or favelas‹characterized by creative use of low-cost materials, organic growth of settlements, spontaneous need-driven planning and building processes, and innovative means of achieving sustainability‹as a new paradigm for affordable housing in developing and developed countries alike. In 2000 she received the Hugo Boss prize for her Kagiso skeleton house. Mr. Roy founded the Social Work Research Center, or ³Barefoot College,² in the early 1970s in Tilonia, a remote village in the desert state of Rajasthan. The Center--a grassroots alternative to a state education system ill-adapted to the needs of poorer people--focuses on developing traditional methods of building, administration, health-care, and education, and combining them where practical with modern technologies in order to create functional, adaptive, and sustainable communities. Links for Marjetica Potrc www.potrc.org www.creativetime.org/consumingplaces/potrc (the web component of Potrc's project for "Consuming Places") www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/potrc/ Links for Bunker Roy and the Barefoot College http://www.barefootcollege.org http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_03/uk/dossier/txt02.htm http://www.unep.org/unep/envpolimp/techcoop/19.htm _______________________________________________________ best regards, cristine wang mobile: +001. 917.318.0081 http://cristine.org
