{"id":3932,"date":"2010-11-08T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T05:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2010-11-08T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T05:39:15","slug":"green-design-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/11\/08\/green-design-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Design as Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I stopped in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/event.php?eid=115410258521182\">Exploring the Aesthetics of Sustainability | Green Design as Art<\/a>, a small (but interesting!) weekend exhibit at the newly-completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mS9kAP0BbpE\">Atrium Building<\/a> in downtown Victoria. The developer (Victoria-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jawlproperties.com\/\">Jawl Properties<\/a>) made an unfinished\/ raw ground-floor retail space available to the the organizers &#8211; props to the Jawls for their civic-minded generosity.<\/p>\n<p>(For some beautiful photographs of this building, especially its eoponymous interior, the atrium, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ngawangchodron\/sets\/72157624906911789\/\">Lotus Johnson&#8217;s Atrium set on Flickr<\/a>. Her photos are stunning &#8211; I particularly love the interior shots, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ngawangchodron\/5124940761\/in\/set-72157624906911789\/\">this one<\/a>&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/bJKtKBS8f9vXb529sBt0Vg?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 6px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_Rg-tSGYurlI\/TNjP_aSHIrI\/AAAAAAAABc4\/6SFQLTeMUI0\/s512\/CIMG0961.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>On Picasa, I created <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/yule.heibel\/SustainabilityArtAtTheAtriumBuildingVictoriaBC?feat=directlink\">an album of photos<\/a> I took at the Green Design as Art event, which was organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/cascadiagbc.org\/emerging-green-builders\/victoria-egb\">Cascadia Green Building Council&#8217;s Emerging Green Builders &#8211; Victoria<\/a>. Wherever there&#8217;s a photo of an object, followed by a photo of an information sheet pasted to cardboard, the latter is the wall post that describes the object.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite objects were Gary Streight&#8217;s &#8220;automans&#8221;: two stools made from recycled tires and other materials. The fluffy-topped one was cheekily feminine, yet oh-so-tough; and the elegant brown tailored number could fit into the most soign\u00e9 of setting. Loved them both.<\/p>\n<p>Below: photo of the show&#8217;s producers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/77xw6bSCirw161tZfEad0Q?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_Rg-tSGYurlI\/TNjQb7p4dSI\/AAAAAAAABd0\/B8DgEvW4pP4\/s640\/CIMG0973.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>&lt;&#8212;\u00a0 Cascadia Green Building Council&#8217;s Emerging Green Builders organizers Dave, Tim, and Melissa pose for the cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I stopped in at Exploring the Aesthetics of Sustainability | Green Design as Art, a small (but interesting!) weekend exhibit at the newly-completed Atrium Building in downtown Victoria. 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