This two-day workshop will take place Friday and Saturday, February 2 and 3, 2007.
Pre-register by January 26, 2007.

Spoonbill Action Voluntary Echo, International (SAVE), University of California, Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED), and UCB’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) are pleased to announce an upcoming workshop, Remodeling Design Activism.

For many years CED has nurtured creative change particularly in environmental protection and social justice. The prevailing model has been advocacy born during the Civil Rights movement. While this approach is appropriate in some cases, design activism generally has changed without much attention to what methods are most effective today.

It is time for reflection and it is time to revitalize radical activism. Some say it needs to be rekindled. Others say it needs remodeling or reshaping or reinventing. This workshop brings together some of the most successful designers, planners, and organizations to:

1. Share their approaches.
2. Seek more effective methods.
3. Develop a strategy for better educating and preparing activists in design and planning.
4. Help SAVE and other groups be more effective in their efforts to address the loss of cultural and biological diversity.

The first day of the workshop features a series of presentations about activism, the movements, the approaches, the successes, and the failures. Speakers; including Lori Pottinger, International Rivers Network; John Cain, Natural Heritage Institute; Kealoha Pisciotta, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou; John Liu, National Taiwan University’s Building and Planning Foundation; Blaine Merker and John Bela, REBAR; and John Roberts, John Northmore Roberts Landscape Architecture; will describe what is most essential to be effective, how professional skills are employed, and key lessons for aspiring activist professionals today. Topics include: Extremists for whom?, Networking for “glocal” hydrology, Endangered birds and universities of the Pacific Rim, Why heritage matters and how to preserve diversity, Can landscapes radicalize?, A place at the table and on the street, The voluntary professional, and International astronomy meets native wisdom.

The first day will be chaired by LAEP’s Randy Hester and conclude with Louise Mozingo, who will summarize key points and discuss preparing better design activists in professional schools. The Tommy Church awards reception will follow. This award will be bestowed on the winning entries in a design competition for a spoonbill bird watching facility in Taiwan. The evening will conclude with a roundtable dinner and discussion.

The second day will feature the leading protagonists in the effort to save the endangered black-faced spoonbill from the extinction vortex and 7000 jobs in fishing in Chiku Lagoon, Taiwan. Speakers will include a local congressman (now mayor of Tainan County) who initiated and has led the grassroots efforts for over a decade, students and alumni from Berkeley and National Taiwan University, faculty and scientists from around the world. Lunch will celebrate a homecoming for spoonbill savers and supporters who have since migrated to other places. The final sessions will wrap up the two days with advice to SAVE about how to proceed and to LAEP about how to better educate activists.

The workshop is free, but you must pre-register, and do so by January 26, 2007. To register either call 510.643.6831, email Ingrid Stromberg at: stromberg.ingrid@gmail.com, or print and fill out this page and mail to: SAVE, International, LAEP, 202 Wurster Hall #2000, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2000. We look forward to seeing you there!

Yes, I plan to attend the workshop Remodeling Design Activism, February 2 and 3, 2007.

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__ Friday presentations (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
__ Friday dinner discussion (8 p.m.)
__ Saturday presentations (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
__ Saturday lunch celebration (noon)

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