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ONE WEEK IN LOUISIANA — TWO GREAT COMMUNITY BUILDING CONFERENCES Mark your calendars now for this historic collaborative gathering of progressive planning and design organizations coming this summer to New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Attend part or all of the six-day conference focusing on the fiercest issues that have ever faced community designers, including rebuilding devastated communities post-Katrina and revitalizing distressed neighborhoods throughout the country.
The Great Gumbo: Stirring the Pot of Community Design
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge • June 3-5, 2007
HOSTS: Association for Community Design • Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
In this place where conversation itself is an art, we are creating a conference environment that will give us time and space to explore multiple issues in community design, appreciate what is working, and share ways of building community. We plan to celebrate the rich regional cultures of Southern Louisiana—the art, music, food and conviviality. Lolis Eric Elie, columnist for Times Picayune, will welcome us to Baton Rouge the evening of June 3rd; Carol Bebelle, director of Ashé Cultural Arts Center of New Orleans; and Bill Stallworth, Biloxi city councilman and director of East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center will offer keynote addresses on June 4th. And Clifton James, president of the Urban Design Research Center in Louisiana and Georgia, will give a closing address June 5th. The conference will also feature "discussion cafés" where we can reflect with our colleagues on our evolving practice and its response to needs for social, environmental and economic justice. Bring your unique experiences and a big appetite for connecting as you never have before.
Additional joint conference features:
• Gala Saturday evening June 2 in New Orleans to honor ADPSR's Lewis Mumford Awardees and celebrate Planners Network's 32nd, ACD's 30th and ADPSR's 25th anniversaries.
• Site visits and service opportunities throughout with New Orleans and Baton Rouge organizations, including ACORN and HUD University/Community Partnership projects .
Join this unprecedented convention of planners, designers, policymakers, community organizers and community development professionals, academics, and other stakeholders as we address the challenges of our time. Keep an eye out for future notices about conference particulars and registration: www.communitydesign.org • http://adpsr.redclaycms.com/.htm • www.plannersnetwork.org
[conference registration] (link to ACD site)
[travel & accommodation information] (link to ACD site)
Race, Class and Community Recovery: From the Neighborhood to the Nation and Beyond
University of New Orleans, New Orleans • May 30-June 2, 2007
HOST: Planners Network
Hurricane Katrina exposed tremendous rifts over class, race and community, not just in New Orleans, but throughout the United States and around the world. It also shook the very foundation of planning and governance, whose failures were broadcast in high definition to the global community. Yet the effort to dig out and rebuild has been marked by innovation and extraordinary will on the part of local communities in New Orleans, despite continued abandonment at the federal level. The 2007 Planners Network Conference will confront issues of race, class, injustice and the failures of planning, while seeking to learn from the work of community-based organizations, local planners, and individuals impacted by Katrina.
ACD / ADPSR / PN CONFERENCE HOSTS
Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. We believe that design practitioners have a significant role to play in the well-being of our communities. Established in 1982. The Association for Community Design (ACD) is a network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. Established in 1977.
Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems. Established in 1975.
PN Conference website: www.pn2007.org
LOUISIANA CO-HOSTS
University of New Orleans
Louisiana State University
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Boston Society of Architects / AIA
Designer/Builder Magazine
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Village Press
Planetizen
Pratt Institute
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Connie Chung cchung@planning.lacounty.gov
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