March 2009 Enewsletter
This E-newsletter keeps fellows in the know about each other's professional lives. It includes new job titles, recent publications, current projects, conferences, symposia, lectures and other events involving fellows.
See Fellowship Events for upcoming conferences and lectures featuring past and current Loeb Fellows.
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Announcements
Rising Tides International Design Competition
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)––the California state agency responsible for protecting San Francisco Bay––today launched an initiative called Rising Tides, a first-of-its-kind international design idea competition aimed at generating innovative solutions that deal with adapting shoreline areas to sea level rise. The competition is a response to scientific estimates that global warming may raise water levels in the Bay over four feet by the end of the century. Registration begins on April 9, 2009, and submissions are due in June 2009. To register visit: www.bcdc.ca.gov
London’s Changing Ecological Footprint: Sustainable Development
Initiatives
A Presentation by Camilla Ween, LF 08, Urban Designer, Transport
for London
Tuesday, April 7th 1 to 2 p.m.
Portico 123, Harvard GSD, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Co-sponsored by UPD and the Loeb Fellowship
Camilla will discuss innovative measures London is exploring as part
of its sustainable development objectives to meet 60% reduction in emissions
by 2025. She will include: sustainable housing initiatives, sustainable
travel, decentralized energy, waste and recycling, open space and biodiversity.
She will present London’s ambitious policies and some lessons for the
USA. This work is based on research for a book, Green European Cities
- Lessons for USA, to be published by the University of Virginia.
Free and open to the public
Mapping/Networks
Exploring the intersection of media, public process and design
Thursday, April 16th 6:30 PM
Stubbins Room, GSD
Presentations and Panel Discussion moderated by Rob Lane,
LF 09
Presenters include:
Peter Hall, University of Texas, Austin, co-editor Else/Where:
Mapping - New Cartographie
Laura Kurgan, Director Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia
Univessity
Ceasar McDowell, Professor of the Practice of Community
Development, in the Center for Reflective Community Practice in the Department
of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT
In what innovative ways can publically accessible information
technologies be harnessed to support community-based planning and design?
Sophisticated visualization tools have had limited impact on community-based
planning for reasons of cost, complexity and lack of transparency, especially
when real-time interactions with the public are important. How can we
enable new levels of empowerment and participation in community-based
planning and design by exploiting the public’s growing access to a broad array
of media such as Wiki, Google Earth, Flickr, Second Life and Face Book?
Learning from Bhutan: Preservation, Heritage and Sustainability
A Presentation by Dorji Yangki, LF 09, Chief Architect and Head of
the Division for Conservation of Heritage Sites at the Department of Culture
for Bhutan
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Location: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington DC
Bruner Loeb Forum
The next Bruner Loeb Forum will be held in New Orleans on Thursday,
April 9 at the Tulane School of Architecture. Doug Meffert, LF 2008,
based in New Orleans is the local organizer for this event. The forum is
entitled "Urban Adaptability: Sustaining Place in a Dynamic
Environment". See Schedule and Abstract for the event information.
This forum is by invitation. Please contact Sally Young at syoung@gsd.harvard.edu if
you are interested in attending.
New Orleans SCHEDULE / ABSTRACT
2009 Loeb Alumni Council Meeting Weekend schedule of events, May
1 & 2
Annual Loeb Lecture (speaker: Randy Gragg, LF 2006,
Editor-in-Chief of Portland Spaces magazine)
Location: Piper Auditorium
Date &Time: Friday, May 1 at 6 p.m.
An opening reception will follow in Gund Hall lobby for "The Allston Corridor",
an exhibit by current fellows, Jim Brown and Rob Lane
Free and open to the public
Annual Loeb Alumni Council Meeting - for officers and class
representatives only
Location: Stubbins, Room 112
Date & Time: Saturday, May 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Contact Cindy Fallows (cfallows@gsd.harvard.edu)
if you are planning to attend.
Alumni News
Tom Fox, LF 89, President & CEO of Harbor Experience Companies shares about plans for a new, constructed beach in the New York City waterfront area this summer. The project will build on the popularity of its Beach in Long Island City, and create a new Water Taxi Beach on Governors Island this summer. For the residents of lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn it will be a beach in their own backyard.
Details on Harbor Experience Companies' recent acquistition of Circle Line
Renderings of Water Taxi Beach 1 2
Terminus: Disappearing Glaciers and Fragments of Human History (Peru, Vol. 1)
The exhibition is open from March 13 to April 19 in Gund Hall.
Opening reception: April 4, 5:30-6:30 pm. Please join us
for a glass of wine and meet the fellows.
This exhibit features three large-scale color landscape photographs by Loeb Fellows and Canary Project co-founders, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris. Shot in Peru last spring, each landscape tells a different part of a story -- the story of Peru’s vulnerability to drought and shrinking glaciers due to climate change. Beneath the photographs are display cases containing a variety of artifacts and other research into the implications of the three photographs. The photographs are instants of time. The research seeks an understanding (necessarily fragmentary) of the various histories that are culminating in this moment.
The Canary Project produces visual media, events, and artwork that builds public understanding of human-induced climate change and energize commitment to solutions. www.canary-project.org
Alumni Council Grants
Loeb Fellowship Alumni Association Grant Program
Alumni Council Grants Awarded
The Alumni Council Grant Review Committee, chaired by Charles McKinney
is delighted to report that a record number of proposals were submitted for
consideration and the Committee selected 3 proposals for funding. The
successful proposals are:
1 Two day charette in Birmingham, Alabama to consider planning for
a 12 block downtown area. Cathy Crenshaw, LF 07 submitted the
proposal which will involve 7 Loeb alumni, the Director of Auburn
University Center for Urban Studies and a number of local groups and
stakeholders. $5,000.
2 “An Initiative for Enhancing and Sustaining the Municipal Region
of a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Technical Assistance workshops
for a sustainability plan for San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Submited
by Fidel Lopez, LF 77. This proposal involves 3 Loeb Fellows,
as well as a variety of local and international organizations. $5,000.
3 Support for Loeb Fellow participation in a two day strategic planning
event for the board and staff of the Green Belt Alliance of the San Francisco
Bay Area. There is broad community participation among the
members of the board. The proposal which brings together 4 Loeb Fellows to
assist in this planning effort was submitted by Fei Tsen, LF 88. $5,000.
The committee evaluated the proposals based on the criteria set forth in the Grant Guidelines. Congratulations to the successful proposals as well as to all of the Loeb Fellows who submitted proposals this round for the important work being done in communities around the country and internationally.
Questions – Please contact Sally Young at syoung@gsd.harvard.edu or
(617) 495-9345
Job Listings
Does anybody know some talented young person who's looking to invent a new job and move up a notch in the non-profit community development / community organizing field?
You will see from the salary figure that this is probably not something for a Loeb, but some of you might know of some promising other people.
My town is historic York PA, pop. about 41,000, a great, beautiful, manageable city 50 miles straight north of Baltimore, 90 miles from DC, and a little over 100 miles west of Philadelphia. Cost of living is way below what y'all big city people are used to ... median price for an attached or semi-detached home is $45,000, and for a condo/townhouse $74,900! We shop at the Farmer's Market, or just drive a few miles to the farms where stands with fresh produce and local honey are plentiful. Lots of energy here for new things to happen, and lots of chance for a talented professional to make collaborations work (and while they're at it, to make a real difference in the life of a community).
Contact Genevieve Ray (LF 78-79), genray@comcast.net or phone 717-848-3320,
or reply directly to the job announcement below.
Community Resource Coordinator position
Resources for Urban Neighborhoods, (RUN), a collaboration between the Women’s Giving Circle, the York County Community Foundation and the YMCA of York and York County, PA, is seeking to hire a Community Resource Coordinator to launch the RUN program. This individual will serve as a facilitator and coach to empower neighborhood groups to work together to effect positive change in their neighborhoods. The successful candidate will be energetic, well-organized and capable of functioning in a very independent environment. The individual must have the interpersonal skills necessary to work constructively with a wide variety of people, be a team player and promote broad consensus about strategies, plans and specific actions among diverse interests.
Education/Experience: Bachelor’s Degree, 3 to 5 years of successful professional experience working with neighborhood groups. Experience in organizational and leadership development, including delivery of training programs.
Salary range: $40,000-$49,000 plus YMCA of York and York County employee benefit package. This is a two-year grant funded position and continued employment is contingent upon the availability of funds.
Qualified candidates should submit their resume and cover letter no later than March 27, 2009 to RUN Search Committee, attention Suzanne McConkey, 605 South George Street, York, PA 17401 email: smcconke@ycp.edu.
Job Search -- Director, Mayors' Institute on City Design
The Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD) is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in association with The US Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the American Architectural Foundation (AAF). AAF is the administrative partner for the program. The MICD is a dynamic national program that engages and educates mayors on issues related to community design and planning through national and regional conferences.
The Director, employed by the American Architectural Foundation, plans and implements the MICD program in various locations nationally; manages and coordinates the identification and recruitment of resource team design professionals and mayors to participate in Institute programs; coordinates contracts, financial management, and financial reporting; and supervises MICD staff. The successful candidate will possess knowledge and passion in a broad range of areas related to life in America's urban communities including community governance, political systems, urban design, city planning, urban growth, public education, neighborhood development, and architecture. The Director manages the day-to-day operations of the MICD and is responsible for all aspects of MICD event planning. Bachelors Degree required. Masters Degree preferred in architecture, urban design, or city planning.
For a full job description and application information, please go to www.archfoundation.org. Interviews for up to three finalists will held in Washington, D.C. on April 10, 2009.
Applications will be accepted through March 27. We wish to thank all applicants
for their interest and effort in applying for this
position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be
contacted.
No calls please. No unsolicited agency referrals please.
Selection Committee: MICD
American Architectural Foundation
1799 New York Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Seeking Hosts for Outreach Events
Outreach Activities:
As a result of our outreach events this fall and last spring we have
a diverse applicant pool for the current application cycle including applicants
from a number of cities where we have no Fellows or very few Fellows, and
a set of strong applications from people of color.
We are delighted that our ongoing efforts are yielding strong applications
but our work is just beginning. We would like to continue
this trend into next year and in the years ahead. Personal connections and
encouragement from Loeb alumni have been the most powerful tool in attracting
strong and diverse candidates for the Fellowship. Loeb alumni can be
of assistance to the general outreach efforts and in our diversity outreach
by nominating promising applicants whom you believe would make excellent candidates
for the fellowship, and by hosting an outreach dinner or event to introduce
candidates to the program. We welcome participation from all of our alumni.
We invite you to take a look at our Diversity link (located
on left hand menu of Loeb Fellowship home page at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/).
The Diversity page contains profiles of alumni/ae Fellows from a variety of
backgrounds who share their personal stories about their time as a fellow,
and ways in which their professional lives were affected after the Fellowship.
If you have any suggestions concerning minority and or general outreach
efforts, contact Jim Stockard at stockard@gsd.harvard.edu,
617.495.5988 or Sally Young at syoung@gsd.harvard.edu,
617.495.9345.
Thanks for your efforts.
Searchable Database
Send updated contact and career information, including key search words and job description, to Cindy at: cfallows@gsd.harvard.edu, 617.384.8387.