Post date: Aug 27, 2011 6:27:8 PM
Arcosanti | 08.27.11 Jeff Buderer -Â Jeff Buderer (the author of this website as well as Arcosanti resident and Cosanti Foundation employee) has been communicating with Catherine Page Harris, Assistant Professor of Art and Ecology at the Land Arts of the American West Program of the University of New Mexico. Through one of her students alum Ryan Hennel who lived at Arcosanti about 10 years ago, she became aware of Arcosanti. She has expressed interest in helping us to design a process to better manage the site's land resources and also to incorporate Arcosanti into the Land Arts Program at UNM. Their program includes trips to sites where the students work on projects that seek to creatively and thoughtfully incorporate art into the landscape.
Twelve students from the Land Arts program will explore and engage with Arcosanti and the surrounding site. This will include working with the Construction Dept on one of its landscaping and or water management projects. The students will come for two nights and thus have a full day to engage with the community on September 13 and 14, 2011.
The stop at Arcosanti is part of a larger exploration for the semester of the Land Arts class that Harris teaches. This will include several stops in Arizona and with a theme of Utopian Architecture, working with Simparch at their project at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover Arizona, and staying at the Biosphere 2 Project.
A major goal is to consider a comprehensive planning and management process that puts a holistic program for sustainable development into practice at Arcosanti. Related to this is one of the major concerns of several residents and staff at Arcosanti: the improvement of outlying landscapes on the site with consideration to the future needs and goals of the project and its stakeholders.