Lorelei Scarbro - Living In An Extractive Community
Mar/15/2011
Living In An Extractive Community

Penn State University , Stuckeman Family Building, Jury Space

Lorelei Scarbro, community organizer, alternative energy advocate and opponent to MTR (mountain top removal) in West Virginia will speak at Penn State University, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Scarbro is a native West Virginian and coal miner’s widow from the Coal River Mountain region of the state. She has become a spokesperson for diversifying “power”, i.e. energy and community power in the mono-economic environment of Boone and Raleigh Counties. The costs-benefits and private rights defense to implement MTR and strip coal mining is a major source of debate in...

Jim Diers - Neighbor Power: building community the Seattle way
Jan/19/2006
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University Park, PA

Jim Diers, community activist and former head of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods shared his insights and lessons from Seattle neighborhood groups. For more information about Jim Diers, please visit: http://www.neighborpower.org/

Design for Disassembly: Case Study Home Opening
Jun/03/2006
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Atlanta, GA

Design for Disassembly: Case Study Home Opening

Project partners include the Hamer Center, the Community Housing Resource Center, and the Environmental Protection Agency
Construction and demolition waste accounts for nearly a third of all waste generated in the United States. This case study home near downtown Atlanta creates new construction while planning for adaptability and disassembly at the onset. Using standard construction components, the home features re-positionable walls and a renovation-ready structure. For more information, please visit:
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Sergio Palleroni - Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities
Oct/12/2006
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University Park, PA

Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder and Director of the BaSiC initiative, teaches architecture and sustainable design and development at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development. Prof. Palleroni will share his thoughts about an architecture of global citizenship. He will highlight completed works from Mexico, Cuba, India, and the United States.

For more information about Sergio Palleroni, please visit: http://www.basicinitiative.org/

Bryan Bell - Good Deeds, Good Design
Nov/16/2006
Good Deeds, Good Design

University Park, PA
Bryan Bell, architect

Bryan Bell is Founder and Executive Director of DesignCorps, a national non-profit design organization established in 1999. Design Corps shares a vision with many to help solve daily needs and crises of people through design. To achieve this, DesignCorps provides affordable architectural services to those currently underserved by traditional architecture practices, while training students and interns in the practice of quality community-based design.

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David Perkes - Working in East Biloxi
Nov/30/2006
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University Park, PA
David Perkes, architect and educator

David Perkes is an architect and Associate Professor for Mississippi State University School of Architecture. For the past seven years, David has been the director of the Jackson Community Design Center, and since Hurricane Katrina, has been leading the newly establishment Gulf Coast Community Design Studio. As director of the Design Center, David has overseen projects that range from neighborhood planning to feasibility studies to affordable and sustainable housing. During 2003-2004, he was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Mathias Heyden - Under Construction: strategies of participative architecture and appropriation of space
Oct/06/2006
Under Construction:strategies of participative architecture and appropriation of

University Park, PA
Mathias Heyden, co-editor and founder of K77

Mathias Heyden provided a sample of projects and interviews from Hier Entsteht, a book he co-editied in 2004, that focuses on theories and projects from the 1960s and 1970s that represented informal modernism through participatory means. For more information about Mathias Heyden, please visit: http://www.k77.org

Tri-County Habitat for Humanity Deconstruction Project
Aug/14/2006 (All day) - Sep/01/2006 (All day)
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State College, PA

Tri-County Habitat for Humanity (TCHFH), in partnership with the Grace Lutheran Church and the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State, conducted a deconstruction project on two houses in State College, PA. The purpose of this project was to salvage reusable building materials, thereby avoiding landfill waste, conserving natural resources and avoiding pollution from the production of new materials, and providing low-cost building supplies to citizens in the region. The proceeds from the sale of these materials were used to support the Tri-County HfH - ReStore and affordable housing program...