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About The City Repair Project, www.cityrepair.org
1996 – Initiated by Mark Lakeman, 1996, with ongoing involvement.
2000 – Configured into a 501(c)3 NGO w/ initial board including Mark Lakeman, Saskia Dresler, Daniel Lerch, & Charla Chamberlain
Websites: http://www.cityrepair.org, http://www.villagebuildingconvergence.com
City Repair has been going strong since it's inception more than two decades ago. It has grown from a loose knit group to an organized NGO that has enacted nearly 1000 projects in Portland, Oregon alone. This success is based upon the inspiration of seemingly endless place based communities to challenge and transform the social and physical infrastructure of placelessness and powerlessness where they live. Focused upon social equity and ecological sustainability, the project has spread to more than a hundred cities across North America, and counting.
Please see http://www.cityrepair.org for more information and the updated mission statement.
Original Mission Statement (since updated):
City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented place-making projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair, including the Village Building Convergence, have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and a network of thousands of volunteer citizen activists.
The multidisciplinary nature of the City Repair Project defies categorization. It is a model for social and ecological restoration operating in a landscape characterized by isolation and compartmentalization. The project takes Fritjof Capra's 'Tipping Point' as a model for paradigm change by intentionally focusing upon intersections in space and time. We are directly reclaiming those intersection points and opening the field for what automatically happens when people reunite with their Place: everything. The hundreds of projects restate the same themes but the forms change and evolve. Each project community questions convention, and reinvents as we restate the principles of creative community involvement and ownership, working to rejoin people to time and space in a place for sustainable, creative, localized culture.
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