Cultural Sustainability

We are really excited for next week’s residency, and invite those interested in our program to join us for an evening of celebration!

Time:  Thursday, August 5  7:30pm – 11:00pm

Location:    The Athenaeum at Goucher College 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD 21204

Come join students and faculty of Goucher College’s Cultural Sustainability program for an evening of performance, fellowship, and conversation! We will have food and drink, and ask you to share your gifts. If you would like to perform, or have other ideas of ways to celebrate, please contact Rory at 410-337-6478 or rory.turner@goucher.edu. It will be an inspiring and fun night to remember!

RSVP to Rory at rory.turner@goucher.edu

This will be a great gathering of interest to many!

3rd Annual Chesapeake Folk Festival
Saturday, July 31, 2010, from 10am to 5pm
Come celebrate the Bay’s people, food, music, work and traditions. Festival participants will enjoy live music, a variety of food items and wines from Maryland vineyards, maritime and foodways demonstrations, boat rides, and craft vendors.

Tags: chesapeake

Interesting looking job!

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This may be of interest to some:

We are writing to invite you to participate in a very specialwaterfront conference organized by Project for Public Spaces in partnership with the Nordic Urban Design Association (NUDA) this September 15-17 in Stavanger, Norway. The conference, “Waterfront Synopsis,” will focus on the topic of Placemaking and Sustainability, bringing the forces of environmentalism, climate change, and sustainability together with the ideas of community, livability, health and Placemaking.  Many people around the world are realizing the impacts of “Place” and “Placemaking” as a transformative agenda for creating change in cities.

Tags: coastal, conference, maritime, norway, waterfronts

The Museum 3.0 website promotes conversation around the question: What will the museums of the future look like? A small group on the site focuses on eco-museums as a catalyst to a culture of sustainability?  These efforts to include communities in all aspects of museum work and support their vitality remind me of the work going on in the Goucher program. Check it out!

Tags: cultural sustainability, museums

I  really like  the approach and the attitude of Dr. Max-Neef: http://www.big-picture.tv/?id=3357

Tags: economics, poverty

An interesting little tidbit of a story from Ode Magazine:

Sweden has recently launched a pilot project to help patients suffering from chronic depression; stress; anxiety; or back, shoulder and neck pain by prescribing cultural activities.

An important truth of cultural sustainability is that culture as practice helps sustain our well being…

Tags: cultural sustainability, mental health

Brilliant visual expose/satire.

Tags: architecture

This is a beautiful video of an indigenous group fighting for cultural survival.

This 7-minute video tells the story of Greenpeace’s work with forest communities in Lake Murray, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Together, we have set up ecoforestry ventures that allow them to preserve their forests and traditional values while gaining some financial returns.

Tags: ecoforestry, Greenpeace, New Guinea

The Indigo Network aims to promote ethical practices in culturally sustainable partnerships of designers and communities.

Increasingly, designers and artisans are working together in developing products that aim to enhance cultural sustainability in communities and strengthen social bonds in urban contexts. While such collaborations have great promise, they can also be opportunities for exploitation. To provide designers and artisans with a trusted platform on which to work together, a Code of Practice for Creative Collaborations is currently in development.

Sounds really good to me!