Works Progress Studio
Field Office Fellowship // Virajita Singh
Virajita Singh is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR) and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, College of Design. She leads CSBR’s Design for Community Resilience Program that engages students from the College of Design to help communities, non-profits and local governments interested in implementing sustainable goals. Virajita’s vision is to partner in, assist and help accelerate the transformation currently underway of Minnesota’s communities towards sustainability, one community at a time. Her passion lies in areas of social justice, culture, sacred spaces, and the arts. Virajita is a Collection-in-Focus Guide at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for the museum’s Arts of China collection and pursues her own emerging art practice.
More information: www.csbr.umn.edu/singh.html
Virajita's Field Office Fellowship Project
The journey of our reconnection to the earth parallels our journey of reconnection to self and to others. If we are to heal the earth we will have to simultaneously heal ourselves and each other. Deep listening, authentic conversation and art are potential mediums for magical transformation, healing and empowerment. In the witness of others, our words that speak of past, present and future can create new realities. Can we invite people, who are attracted to this idea, from different walks of life to gather in a circle of sorts - to tell their story, talk of the gifts they have to offer the world and express their souls in art? How might the individual art generated connect and speak to each other? What might emerge from this process as tools for the future of our planet, applied here and now?
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
FlatPak House, Walker Art Center
Field Office Fellowship is a project by Works Progress and Walker Art Center.
Photo by Zoe Prinds-Flash.
Field Office Fellowship // Virajita Singh
Virajita Singh is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR) and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, College of Design. She leads CSBR’s Design for Community Resilience Program that engages students from the College of Design to help communities, non-profits and local governments interested in implementing sustainable goals. Virajita’s vision is to partner in, assist and help accelerate the transformation currently underway of Minnesota’s communities towards sustainability, one community at a time. Her passion lies in areas of social justice, culture, sacred spaces, and the arts. Virajita is a Collection-in-Focus Guide at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for the museum’s Arts of China collection and pursues her own emerging art practice.
More information: www.csbr.umn.edu/singh.html
Virajita's Field Office Fellowship Project
The journey of our reconnection to the earth parallels our journey of reconnection to self and to others. If we are to heal the earth we will have to simultaneously heal ourselves and each other. Deep listening, authentic conversation and art are potential mediums for magical transformation, healing and empowerment. In the witness of others, our words that speak of past, present and future can create new realities. Can we invite people, who are attracted to this idea, from different walks of life to gather in a circle of sorts - to tell their story, talk of the gifts they have to offer the world and express their souls in art? How might the individual art generated connect and speak to each other? What might emerge from this process as tools for the future of our planet, applied here and now?
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
FlatPak House, Walker Art Center
Field Office Fellowship is a project by Works Progress and Walker Art Center.
Photo by Zoe Prinds-Flash.