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Pointing beyond sustainability toward the more abundant propositions of restoration and transformation, the Not A Cornfield art project has both literally transformed 32-acres of polluted earth into a verdant cornfield and generated a green vision of future possibility in Los Angeles. Growing in the midst of LA’s Downtown re-vitalization, the project invites us to consider innovative ways of addressing urban ecology and the integration of fertile spaces into dense cities.
In this fruitful context Larry Santoyo, one of the United States’ leading permaculture practitioners, discusses the radical Permaculture Design Movement. Developed over the last quarter century by renowned Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, permaculture is a design system that applies ecological principles to all of the systems and disciplines that human settlement requires. Weaving together food, fibre and energy production, water management and human needs into intricately connected productive communities, permaculture has evolved from an initial vision of permanent or sustainable agriculture into one of permanent or sustainable culture.
ABOUT LARRY SANTOYO
Larry Santoyo is an artist with formal training in land use planning, resource protection and product development, including seven years of training and service with the State of California and studies with Bill Mollison. He is among the most experienced Permaculture designers and teachers in the United States. Since 1983, he has assisted individuals in the design and installation of residential ecosystems and has assisted companies in developing industrial ecologies and sustainable business practices. As business and product development consultant, Larry Santoyo serves as the senior planner for Earthflow Design Works, a principal in the land management group Open Circle LLC, and the co-director of The Terra Foundation. He is also the founder of the Permaculture MicroVillage Network and the creative director at The Center of Natural Design.
ABOUT FRIDAY NIGHTS @ NOT A CORNFIELD
Why Here? Why Now? is one of the ongoing Friday Night@Not A Cornfield series of events that bring people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project. Future speakers include renowned sociologist and author of The Network Society, Manuel Castells.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.
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