Slow Food Nation '08

YBCA, House of Campari and Slow Food Nation present
Sustainable Systems: 3 Local Solutions

Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | YBCA | 6 – 8:30pm / Conversation: 7 – 8pm

Urban populations will grow faster in the coming years than ever before. The Bay Area has been a region at the forefront of urban sustainability, and continues to spawn many environmentally minded initiatives that hold the promise of affecting urban design and policy in other cities around the country and the globe. At this panel discussion, three individuals based in the Bay Area talked about their initiatives for sustainable urban living. John Bela, architect, designer, and member of the artist collective Rebar, is the designer of the City Hall Victory Gardens, a collaborative project currently on view in the public sphere. Shruti Narayan of the design firm Arup is the project manager on the sustainable design strategies for the new building of the California Academy of Sciences. Jerome Waag, a performance artist and chef at Chez Panisse restaurant explores the urban environment as a site for the production of food in his latest project OPEN City at New Langton Arts.

This event was a precursor to both Slow Food Nation 2008 and the YBCA exhibition “The Gatherers: Greening Our Urban Spheres,” which YBCA Curator Berin Golonu, in collaboration with Veronica Wiman, presented at the end of October 2008.