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I use raised beds and the "French Intensive" method for my kitchen garden. This photo is looking through a tomato ring (note micro-irrigation). The ring to the right is kale and the one beyond is exotic tomatoes.
Kerstin Andreae (l), stv. Fraktionsvorsitzende der Grünen im Bundestag, Wolfgang Scheunemann, Geschäftsführer dokeo
The AC+D Program begins with a 10 day collaborative Design Build Intensive intended to help students learn how to work together and to design and make something for someone that could benefit from our skills.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MAKING
Designers in education and industry routinely and assuredly assert that design thinking strategies can deliver the “game-changing” ideas needed to address the critical and complex problems of our times. Frequently, however, it seems we’re seduced by and fall in love with the promise(s) of these ideas – and possibly the god-like power their creation conveys – and are less committed to following through with their actual realization with the same degree of passion.
In an effort to provide a ‘proof of the pudding is in the eating’ model of design education and practice, first year MFA AC+D students begin the program with a pre-semester, 10-day collaborative design-build intensive. The experience is intended to help students get to know each other, and learn how to work together by designing and building a project for an actual client. Emphasizing a philosophy of civic engagement, projects are selected based on their potential to benefit an organization or population that generally does not have access to and/or cannot afford to pay for the services of designers and makers.
Project Grow provides a space for artists to explore personal expression through an array of artistic mediums, as well as gain skill and experience working on a chemical-free farm with an emphasis on sustainability.
The urban farm's focus is to teach individuals farm skills and encourage a connection to their food source as they earn income from farming the land. Port City farmers cultivate reclaimed urban land spread across two blocks. The list of produce grown on the farm is bountiful and includes many varieties of vegetables, Northwest proven tomatoes, and other fruits such as raspberries, mulberries, blueberries, pears, kiwis, apples, currants, figs and grapes. In order to make our farm more sustainable and encourage understanding of the full cycle of plant life, we save our seeds and sell and trade them with community members and other local farms.
Goats and chickens are raised to teach individuals animal husbandry skills. The goats' beautiful fiber is processed and used for weaving, felting and other fiber projects. We also cultivate many plants used to make natural dyes, and encourage seed to cloth creation of fiber goods.
North Portland Farm produce is sold throughout the community. All of the chemical-free produce raised by Port City farmers is sold to restaurants, neighborhood stores, or as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares.
Photographs by Sarah Meadows
2015 Design Build Intensive: MFA in Applied Craft + Design
The MFA in Applied Craft + Design degree program (AC+D) in Portland, OR (a joint program of Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art) begins each year with a 10 day pre-semester, collaborative Design Build Intensive project intended to help students get to know each other and learn how to work together by designing and building a project for an actual client who will benefit from the students' skills.
This year's collaborator is Outgrowing Hunger whose mission is "to get healthy food into the mouths of Hungry People". The organization "transforms unused private, public and institutional land into Neighborhood Gardens, where healthy food, resilient community, and economic opportunity spring up together". For this Design Build Intensive the AC+D students will focus on the East Portland Neighborhood Garden (EPNG), which provides personal gardening and fresh produce work-trade opportunities.
The East Portland Neighborhood Garden has plots that range from 360 – 1550 square feet, tended primarily by 115 Bhutanese, Burmese refugee and Latino immigrant families who literally live off of the garden's harvest. Many must commute up to two miles on foot to get to the garden, after which they often work 6 – 8 hours a day tending, harvesting and preparing traditional fermented vegetables. The entire site is almost 100% garden space with little area for rest and relief, not to mention protection from the rain and sun.
There is so much AC+D can do for EPNG!
The magic of the AC+D Design Build Intensive is the conversation and connection that happens between two communities who normally would not have come together. EPNG and ACD will meet to collaboratively discover the true needs of the community. It is clear already that there is much that can be improved. The design process will not begin until the students meet with the gardeners, but to give a sense of the potential scope the project could include: benches with shaded cover for tired gardeners and nursing mothers; raised beds with ADA accessibility for the Senior Gardens; a protective shed to secure the five wheelbarrows; a privacy shield for the portable restroom; a removable cover for the outdoor kitchen used to prepare the harvests for community and fundraising events, and the list goes on…
AC+D DESIGN BUILD: MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MAKING
Designers in education and industry fields routinely and assuredly assert that design thinking strategies can deliver the “game-changing” ideas needed to address the critical and complex problems of our times. Frequently, however, it seems we’re seduced by and fall in love with the promise(s) of these ideas, and are less committed to following through with their actual realization with the same degree of passion. The AC+D Design Build Intensive is an effort to provide a ‘proof of the pudding is in the eating’ model of design education and practice of the first year MFA AC+D students working together designing and building a project for an actual client.
Emphasizing a philosophy of civic engagement, The AC+D Design Build Intensives are selected based on their potential to benefit an organization or population that generally does not have access to the services of designers, builders and makers. These projects put design thinking into action and solve local community problems.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
Students meet with professional actors, a casting director, and attend a Broadway show at the Imperial Theatre!
Students meet with professional actors, a casting director, and attend a Broadway show at the Imperial Theatre!
Lol, leave it to me to find the unfamiliar, obscure caterpillars that are so difficult to ID... but thanks to an intensive effort of consulting with caterpillar experts, my dear friend Karen has suggested that this is a Hypocala Moth caterpillar... although the moth is seen in several North American states with photos displayed, we couldn't find a single online image of its caterpillar stage... so, this might be its internet début!
Design by: Hana Cerna
PRECIOSA Terra Intensive
The vivid PRECIOSA Terra Intensive colors on selected beads and seed beads have expanded the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads™ range. This involves a surface finish in 11 distinctive shades ranging from bright yellow to chocolate brown.
We offer this pallet of shiny colors on PRECIOSA Rocailles, PRECIOSA Farfalle™ and PRECIOSA Twin™ seed beads, as well as on 13 types of pressed beads, including PRECIOSA Pip™ and PRECIOSA Twin™, and on the basic shape of the fire polished beads.
The collection also now includes the PRECIOSA Terra Intensive Matt finish on PRECIOSA Rocailles in 3 sizes: 10/0, 8/0 and 6/0.
PRECIOSA Rocailles
Article number: 331 19 001, 331 39 001
Sizes: 10/0, 8/0, 6/0
PRECIOSA Farfalle™
Article number: 321 90 001
Size: 3.2 x 6.5 mm
PRECIOSA Twin™
Article number: 321 96 001, 117 01 323
Size: 2.5 x 5 mm
PRECIOSA Pip™
Article number: 111 01 346
Size: 5 x 7 mm
PRECIOSA Fire Polished Beads
Article number: 151 19 001
Size: 4 mm
Visit our website for more information about the PRECIOSA Terra Intensive