Thursday, December 6, 7:00 pm
Designer/educator Janell Kapoor (Ashevillage Institute and Kleiwerks International) and artist/designer Martha Skinner (10^10) will speak about their work and ideas connected to ecological design-building and the exponential power of design. $10 / $5 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID
Martha Skinner is founder of 10^10, co-founder of field office, assistant professor of architecture at Clemson University, artist and mother. She studies our built environment as a delicate ecology using representation methods that visualize the cycles of life in order to more acutely address temporal, social and environmental issues. Her work includes several Living Maps of cities, which include NY A/V, PROXY_florence, día de los trastos, and BiCi_N. As the 1999 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan, Skinner developed Notation A/V, a seminar about the merging of drawing and moving image, a method and way of seeing she teaches and continues to develop in her work. Her projects have been exhibited internationally in Austria, Barcelona Florence, Paris, Québec, Rotterdam, and Venice. Honors for Martha’s work include five awards from I.D. Magazine, a Next Generation Award from Metropolis Magazine, a People, Prosperity and the Planet Award from the EPA, inclusion in the 10th Venice Biennale and in the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Skinner has degrees in Design and Architecture from the University of Florida and The Cooper Union, as well as in Urban Culture from The Metropolis Program in Barcelona.
Janell Kapoor is the Founding Director of Kleiwerks International. She is an avid mud mama, global movement-builder, designer and teacher whose work has inspired people from over 52 countries to build their own homes with what they have where they are. She led the initial ecological design-build trainings in Thailand, Argentina and Turkey, which resulted in the building of educational centers, training programs, businesses, policy change and regional movements of hundreds of thousands of mud people. Janell lives in the oldest mountains on the planet at the Ashevillage Institute, a one-acre permaculture site that features residential and urban solutions, such as an 18,000 gallon five-pond rainwater catchment and aquaponic greenhouse system, edible and medicinal landscape, recycled courtyard kitchen, beautiful mud art and a naturally-renovated guest house. Janell is currently launching the Women of the Americas Sustainability Initiative (WASI), an action-oriented alliance of women leaders who construct, educate, organize and advocate for strong and empowered communities through ecological design-build practices, with the aim of creating a socially and ecologically resilient world.
