Thanks to our 2007 Corporate Sponsors:
Autopoiesis
LLC
Structura Naturalis Inc.
And invaluable incubation support from
A World Institute to Serve Humanity
Thank you!
Sustasis
Foundation
"Sustasis" (vaiant spelling "systasis") is a Greek word meaning
"standing together" or "bringing parts together into integrality." Sustasis Foundation is
a research and education NGO working to connect people and resources around the world to help solve our most urgent modern
challenges, including climate change and unsustainable growth.
We focus on settlement patterns, local building practices, and local economies
that preserve and build upon local identity and heritage. Sustasis Foundation is part of the surging worldwide "civil
society" movement, working not only to cope with existing challenges, but to create a new basis for living well within
a sustainable global community. We believe we can do so by helping to incorporate very promising lessons from the biological
sciences, and from the durable patterns of history.
The Sustasis Foundation's work currently includes:
* We are a key partner in the 2008 Congress
of the Council for European Urbanism, on the topic of "Climate Change and Urban Design". We are working with
a broad range of international NGOs, government agencies and universities, representing 27 countries and all continents except
Antarctica. We are assisting with development of the program, formation of partnerships, and selecton of papers, speakers
and themes.
*
We sponsor the new US chapter of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU), a
patronage of the Prince of Wales. Its mission:
INTBAU is a world wide organisation dedicated to the support of traditional building, the maintenance of local character
and the creation of better places to live. We are creating an active network of individuals and institutions who design,
make, maintain, study or enjoy traditional building, architecture and places.
* We coordinate the Environmental Structure
Research Group, an international, inter-disciplinary group of researchers in the built and natural environments, and the fields
with which they interact. We are particularly interested in the topics of evidence-based design, patterns languages,
space syntax, new urbanism, and other developing tools and approaches.
* Our
executive director is a partner in the European School of Urbanism and Architecture, a new pilot curriculum in urban design
and architecture focused in particular on climate change, local economics and local heritage, and the power of traditional
urban and building patterns.
* Our executive
director is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Urbanism (Routledge); the editorial board of the Cuadernos de Arquitectura
y Nuevo Urbanismo (ITESM); the advisory board of the Transforming Land Use Regulations research project funded by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation; serves on other mission-related boards; is a speaker and lecturer at many international conferences;
and writes regularly for the Urban Land Institute and other journals and publications.
* In 2007 we formed the Neighborhood Center
Development Partnership, a project to develop neighborhood resource centers for the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf
Coast hit hard by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We previously developed the Neighborhood Rebuilding Centers proposal
as a part of the Unified New Orleans Plan, now formally adopted by the City of New Orleans.
LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION:
