http://www.emergentstructures.com Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Ted Cheecharoen, Colleen Heine, Ken Holmes, and Yahayra Rosario-Cora (AKA Team Strippers) About a month ago, during our conversation with a landscaping professional, she referred to Whitemarsh Plaza as a “lifeless” place; at the beginning of all of this, we would have agreed. On the first visit of the SCAD Sustainable ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=762 By Erin Fenley In 2004 the oldest living tree was found in Sweden, a scrawny spruce like what most of us picture when we think of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. However, the trunk isn’t the ancient part, it’s the root system that’s outlived the last ice age and grown to be ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=749 By Scott Boylston Almost 10 weeks ago, a graduate Sustainable Practices in Design class at SCAD visited a generic strip mall on Whitemarsh Island. We went to visit Wendy Armstrong of Thrive Take Out Cafe to talk about the possibility of creating an outdoor eating area made from building materials reclaimed ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=737 By Charisse Bennett I was always a very imaginative child. I could create entire worlds in my mind and interact with them through objects that I would envision as something else. Clumps of grass became tree canopies for the smallest of characters. Discarded wood offcuts became an entire city of skyscrapers. ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=728 [caption id="attachment_675" align="alignnone" width="449" caption="Nina Smith, Director of Properties for Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia, and mastermind behind the Rose Dhu Eco-Camp project"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=674 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’ ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=659 By Scott Boylston INITIATIVE THREE :: Outdoor Eating Area Wendy Armstrong, owner of Thrive Carry Out Cafe , expressed interest in creating an outdoor eating area for Whitemarsh Plaza, a nondescript commercial mall on one of the islands east of Savannah, and only about 4 miles from Savannah Gardens. Thrive is Savannah’s ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=636 By Scott Boylston The first law of thermodynamics is founded on the observation that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed; human energy certainly fits within that framework. So, as the energy dedicated to developing Emergent Structures projects and collaborations increases, the energy dedicated to blog ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=606 By Scott Boylston We're looking forward to our summer. The old saying goes, you get what you ask for, and yes, we most definitely have. We have complexity, oh yes we do. But along with the complexity—along with this wild collaborative network we've nurtured—we have excitement, and meaning, and passionate interest from ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=590 As a part of our advocacy for increasing the awareness and the level of material reclamation, we’ve created our “Exclaim Your Reclaim” campaign. We will feature case studies of creative re-use, and include as much detail as possible regarding the process and practicalities, the green jobs created, the amount of ... http://www.emergentstructures.com/?p=551