Hot Times with the Girl Scouts
By Scott Boylston
We have a whole lot of numbers to share with you about the amount of materials that we helped the Girl Scouts harvest over the weekend from a site otherwise scheduled for the landfill, but we’ll start here:
Day One of the Girl Scouts Volunteer Building Material Harvest:
95º, one short of the record [...]
Been Busy: Initiative 4
By Scott Boylston
Two buildings on the site of Savannah Gardens will give way this weekend to the whim of Girl Scouts. The reclaimed materials will be used for an eco-camp on Rose Dhu Island, a magnificent piece of land surrounded by meandering rivers. The eco-camp is intended to enhance girls’ knowledge of and appreciation for [...]
What’s Out There
By Scott Boylston
So, by now we all understand that heartpine is both the most common and the most coveted material in the old buildings in Savannah Gardens, and we’re happy to say that detailed plans are being made for the harvesting and re-purposing of this material as we speak, and that there has been enthusiastic [...]
Deconstructing the Unit
By Scott Boylston
What do we value? As individuals? As a culture? We value those things whose worth is apparent to us; we value what we perceive as valuable. And when the true value of something has been obscured by misperceptions or assumptions, we need new ways of seeing those things.
From the beginning of this project, [...]
How Little our Eyes Permit Us to See
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” ~Dorothea Lange
Pimprae Hiranprueck, a photography student at SCAD, recently accompanied a team that has [...]
Faith Without Works is Dead: Hunting for Solutions
By Summer Constantino
Armed with a growing knowledge of reclaimed materials, and with fierce determination, my partner in a winter quarter Sustainable Practices in Design class at SCAD, Katie Coulburn, and I decided to design a meaningful method of including heartpine from the old buildings at Savannah Gardens into the redevelopment of new homes on the [...]
The Death of a House
By Adrian Perez
The house is alive as long as it is inhabited. It breathes, sees, digests, listens, talks, it ages, and it dies. Upon its death, it must be disposed of or it will slowly decompose.
Like a corpse, it must be buried or it will decay before the public eye; this type of dead space is considered the gangrene of the urban body.
Like a corpse left bare, it [...]
Mapping Optimism
“I have cast my lot with those, who, age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”
—Adrienne Rich
By Scott Boylston
What on Earth are we doing? Is it OK to ask that? Does the common wisdom of the day monopolize insight into what can and cannot be done in this world, not only despite its [...]
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We’re happy to be invited by the Pine Gardens Neighborhood Association to talk about the Emergent Structures Project, and how our building-material reclamation project at Strathmore Estates can bring community together.
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The meeting will be held at the Riverside Baptist Church social hall at 2310 Causton Bluff Rd.
We start at 7pm, so please [...]