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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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
Limited seating. Please RSVP to 415.373.0185.
You must be over the age of 21 to attend.
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. Join us as three individuals based in the Bay Area talk 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 will be the perfect precursor to both the Slow Food Nation conference, starting this Thursday and continuing all weekend, as well as a precursor to the exhibition “The Gatherers: Greening Our Urban Spheres,” which YBCA Curator Berin Golonu, in collaboration with Veronica Wiman, will present at the end of October 2008.
