ESRG New Orleans Symposium Agenda
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 * Mary Rowe, NGO director of New Orleans projects in self-organization * and others TBA
October 18-19
Venue: Room 299, Morial Convention Center (Downtown, near the French Quarter)
(NOTE: Breakfast and tours elsewhere - see below)
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
8:00 AM Breakfast (For those wanting to join)
Historic French Market Inn, 501 Rue Decatur
9:30 AM Tour of New Orleans sites
Depart from Historic French Market Inn
12:00 PM Lunch, discussion
Morial Convention Center, Room 299 (And subsequent events for the day)
TOPIC ONE: Self-Organization and the Neighborhood Centers: The Essential Elements
1:00 PM Introduction and Description of the Current Proposal
Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director, Sustasis Foundation
1:20 PM Case Studies in Self-Organization: The Vietnamese Catholic Church and Others
David Brain, PhD., Professor of Sociology, New College Florida
1:40 PM Case Studies in Self-Organization: The Work of blue moon fund
Mary Rowe, Program Director, blue moon fund
2:00 PM Resilient Cities, Code-Free Zones and the Planning of New Orleans
Andres Duany, UNOP Team Planner, DPZ
2:20 PM Discussion
2:40 PM Break
TOPIC TWO: Project-Based Research Opportunities in Self-organization
3:00 PM Gentilly Mapping Project: Case Study in Open-Source Organizing
Quintus Jett, PhD., Senior Research Fellow, Center for Digital Strategies, Dartmouth College
3:20 PM Pattern Languages and Building Process
Kyriakos Pontikis, PhD., Assistant Professor, Cal State Northridge
3:40 PM Economic Challenges in Sustainable Rebuilding
Stuart Cowan, PhD., Physicist, Economist/Ecologist, Autopoiesis Inc.
4:00 PM Codes and Code Reform
Ann Daigle, Arcade Projects South
4:20 PM Discussion
5:00 PM Refreshments
6:00 PM Close
October 19
7:30 AM Breakfast
Historic French Market Inn (501 Rue Decatur)
9:00 AM TOPIC THREE: Collaborative workshop on The Neighborhood Center Development Project
Morial Convention Center, Room 299
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