[strawbale] Fw: EcoDwelling program

["Lars Keller" <larskeller@livinghouses...>]

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From: "Builders without Borders" <bwb@zianet...>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:22 AM
Subject: EcoDwelling program


> Hello builders without borders,
> 
> I have begun an association with New College in Santa Rosa,
> California.  They are offering a program in "EcoDwelling" that I thought
> may be of interest to some of you.  The program starts in January, but they
> are still accepting applications.  See detailed information below
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Joe Kennedy
> 
> EcoDwelling
> A New College of California North Bay
> BA and MA Program Concentration
> 
> A holistic approach to radically affordable sustainable dwelling as a way
> and means of lifesupport, livelihood and community for personal and global
> liberation.
> 
> EcoDwelling is a 3-semester Concentration offered through New College of
> California North Bay Campus's (Santa Rosa) Culture, Ecology and Sustainable
> Community program.  It offers accredited BA completion and MA degrees.
> 
> The EcoDwelling Concentration is a holistic approach to dwelling in the
> broadest sense  encompassing the very nature of existence and being  and
> the entire process by which we inhabit our ecosystems and the planet.  It
> is concerned with the causes of our current dwelling process failure, the
> principles of success, and the application of principles in the design of
> equitable, sustainable, universally affordable alternatives.  The
> Concentration provides students with an opportunity to implement vision,
> theory and design as their own radically affordable, sustainable means of
> dwelling.  And to then develop a project of their own choice that might
> help facilitate success for others as well.
> 
> The EcoDwelling Concentration is intended for anyone with an interest in
> any aspect of the dwelling process and its relationship to the whole.  It
> is intended for anyone interested in discovering how to make their own way
> and means of dwelling more affordable, sustainable and liberating  thereby
> being able to help others do the same.  As awareness of our collective
> crisis increases, the need for those who can recognize, understand, and
> implement sustainable alternatives will be substantial.
> 
> The EcoDwelling Concentration curriculum structure
> 
> The BA program consists of 3 semesters with 16 units of course work per
> semester:
> Core Seminar (6 units/semester)
> EcoDwelling Journal (2 units/semester)
> EcoDwelling Seminar (4 units/semester)
> Senior Thesis Project (4 units/semester)
> 
> The MA program consists of 3 semesters with 12 units of course work per
> semester:
> Core Leadership Seminar (6 units/semester)
> EcoDwelling Seminar (3 units/semester)
> Masters Thesis Project (3 units/semester)
> 
> Core Seminars
> 
> Students in the Core Program as well as the other Concentrations attend the
> Core Seminars.  Core Seminars provide a holistic foundation for evaluating
> the causes of global crisis and potential strategies of transformation.
> 
> EcoDwelling Visioning Journal
> 
> The Visioning Journal provides a medium and a methodology for accessing and
> exploring our innate sense of archetypal dwelling, for investigating the
> nature of the dwelling process itself, for uncovering the cultural
> conditioning that may lock us into dwelling process failure, and for
> integrating the information and experience gained in the course of the program.
> 
> The EcoDwelling Seminar
> 
> This Seminar is the heart of the Concentration.  It takes place one weekend
> each month.  It is designed to provide both an intellectual and
> experiential foundation for the understanding, design and implementation of
> alternative ways and means of dwelling that are equitable, sustainable and
> affordable.  The three semesters are linked by a year-long dwelling project.
> 
> Each weekend consists of four components:
> Saturday morning: Theory
> Saturday afternoon: Design Studio
> Sunday morning: Technologies
> Sunday afternoon: Workshop
> 
> Skills-Research Thesis Project
> 
> This component of the curriculum offers each student an opportunity to
> explore some area of personal interest in greater detail, culminating in a
> Senior or Masters Thesis project, completed at the end of the program.
> 
> EcoDwelling Concentration Coordinator
> 
> Steve Beck MARch, is a designer and inventor.  He has trained as an
> architect and Buddhist monk, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from
> the University of Washington.  Over a 15 year period he designed, built and
> lived in (full time) a series of tiny portable solar houses, none of which
> cost more than $1,200 (several considerably less).
> 
> Application Process
> 
> The EcoDwelling Concentration accepts applicants for entry in the Spring
> Semester only (beginning in January).  Applications are still being
> accepted.  For inquiries and contact:
> New College of California
> 99 6th St., Santa Rosa, CA  95401
> (707) 568-0112
> 
> You may contact Steve Beck at the above address, phone or email:
> stevebeck@newcollege...
> 
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