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Self-Organization and the Recovering City

With: Andres Duany, Planner * David Brain, Sociologist * Stuart Cowan, Ecologist * Quintus Jett, Organization Theorist * Kyriakos Pontikis, Building Process Specialist * and others TBA

October 18-19

Venue: Morial Convention Center (Downtown, near the French Quarter)

New Orleans, Louisiana

NOTE: This is a preliminary draft; please add suggestions or check back for updates. We intend this as a rough framework for the event only, and will ensure that there is free discussion and evolution of topics. mm

October 18

9:00 AM Tour of New Orleans sites; discussion

TOPIC ONE: Self-Organization and the Neighborhood Centers: The Essential Elements

11:00 AM Introduction and Description of the Current Proposal

Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director, Sustasis Foundation

11:20 AM Case Studies in Self-Organization: The Vietnamese Catholic Church and Others

David Brain, PhD., Professor of Sociology, New College Florida

11:40 AM Case Studies in Self-Organization: The Work of blue moon fund

Mary Rowe, Program Director, blue moon fund

12:00 PM Resilient Cities, Code-Free Zones and the Planning of New Orleans

Andres Duany, UNOP Team Planner, DPZ

12:20 PM Discussion

1:00 PM Lunch

TOPIC TWO: Project-Based Research Opportunities in Self-organization

2:00 PM Gentilly Mapping Project: Case Study in Open-Source Organizing

Quintus Jett, PhD., Senior Research Fellow, Center for Digital Strategies, Dartmouth College

2:20 PM Pattern Languages and Building Process

Kyriakos Pontikis, PhD., Assistant Professor, Cal State Northridge

2:40 PM Economic Challenges in Sustainable Rebuilding

Stuart Cowan, PhD., Physicist, Economist/Ecologist, Autopoiesis Inc.

3:00 PM Discussion

3:20 PM Break

3:40 PM Codes and Code Reform

Ann Daigle, Arcade Projects South

4:00 PM TBD

4:20 PM TBD

4:40 PM Discussion

5:00 PM Refreshments

6:00 PM Close

October 19

8:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM TOPIC THREE: Collaborative workshop on The Neighborhood Center Developmpent Project

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM TOPIC FOUR: Additional Collaborative Opportunities: The Environmental Structure Research Group

5:00 PM Refreshments

6:00 PM Close