Yestermorrow Annual Summer Lecture Series - June 24th through August 26th
06/24/2009 - 7:00pm
08/26/2009 - 9:00pm
Yestermorrow Design/Build School will once again hold its popular Summer Lecture Series beginning June 24th. The lectures will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM in the studio of the School’s Warren, Vermont campus. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Yestermorrow Design/Build School has been bringing Mad River Valley residents and visitors together since 2000 by hosting a Summer Lecture Series. These free events have featured over 75 speakers and films ranging in topics as diverse as sustainable communities of the future to handicapped accessible tree houses to contemporary furniture making.
This year’s lectures include:
June 24 - What Were We Thinking? Reflections on How Place, Personality and Process Influence Furniture Design at Beeken Parsons with Jeff Parsons
July 1 - Patterns: Key to Sustainable Communities with Joel Glanzberg
July 8 - Bridging the Gap: Bringing Together the Worlds of Natural and Green Building with Jacob Racusin
July 15 - Thoughts on Designing Additions: From Context to Content and Intention to Invention with John Ringel
July 22 - Continuous Transformations: Something Old, Something New in Making Next Generation Buildings with Matthew O’Connell
July 29 - The Power of Information in a Clean Energy Economy with Dan Reicher
August 5 - Residential Energy When the Energy Runs Out: Beyond Energy Efficiency with Li Ling Young
August 12 - Redevelopment of Burlington's Waterfront: A 25-Year Journey of Green and Social Design & Construction with Melinda Moulton
August 19 - Beyond Compost: Advanced Uses of Compost and Geotextile Materials with Buzz Ferver
August 26 - Pressure Building (Concrete Falls in Love): Flexible Fabric Molds for Forming Cast Concrete Structure and Architecture with Mark West.
The Yestermorrow Design/Build School is located on Route 100 in Warren, Vermont. For more information about the Summer Lecture Series, call the school at 802-496-5545 or visit our website at www.yestermorrow.org.