A Living Library is also collaborating
with River Of Words, founded by the Poet Laureate,
Robert Haas to create opportunities for student expression
through words and visual arts related to the environment.
This work will additionally be able to focus on the importance
of global unity, connection, and peace.
A Living Library &
Think Park Conceptual Master Plan
has been developed in conjunction with a Steering Committee
comprised of students from each grade level, teachers, administrators,
parents, city agencies, and other community partners. The
Plan was supported by the San Francisco Mayors Office
of Community Development and Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides
Foundation. The Plan was developed by Bonnie Ora Sherk
and Life Frames, Inc., the non-profit sponsor of A
Living Library and the OMI / Excelsior Living Library
& Think Park.
Every part of the process of research,
planning, design, implementation, use, maintenance, management,
and communicating is becoming part of the interdisciplinary
curricula, during the school day and in our after-school
program, and is being documented through a variety of digital
technologies. All of our findings and process is being translated
into the OMI
/ Excelsior Living Library Multimedia Digital Archives,
added to the Living Library Website
(www.alivinglibrary.org), and linked live through various
technologies to Branch Living Libraries
as they emerge around the globe. There are also many other
opportunities to develop additional Living
Library products and processes.
DEVELOPING
BRANCH LIVING LIBRARIES IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES
A
Branch Living Library is currently being planned
for Roosevelt Island, New York, located in the middle of
the East River adjacent to Manhattan, where the community
has about 40% of its residents associated with the United
Nations. We are working closely with the schools, senior
groups, art groups, and others in that community and the
larger New York area to create a significant opportunity
for healing as well as to create a relevant community learning
environment that incorporates the local resources: ecological,
built, and multicultural - past, present, and future.
We
are interested in linking with other school communities
around the country and world that would like to develop
a unique site and culturally-sensitive
Branch Living Library. There are also many other
opportunities to develop additional Living
Library programs, products and processes. Please
contact us for more information.
ABOUT THE
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF A LIVING LIBRARY
The Founder and Director of A
Living Library and Life Frames, Inc., the non-profit
sponsor, is Bonnie Ora Sherk, who has developed this systemic
approach to educational and environmental transformation
that integrates interdisciplinary, project-based learning,
community ecological planning, sustainable design, development,
and ongoing usage with sate-of-the-art communications technologies.
Sherk who is trained as a landscape architect, planner,
and educator, is also a professional artist, who has exhibited
her work in museums and galleries all over the world. Her
work has also been internationally published in art and
design books, journals, and magazines, as well as shown
on network television. She has been creating and implementing
systemic design processes and Life Frame,
Living Library, Think Park* plans for sites around
the country for over 25 years. An early and successful Life
Frame, was an urban community farm, environmental education
and multi-arts center called Crossroads
Community (the farm). Located adjacent to a major
freeway interchange in San Francisco, The
Farm, as it was commonly known, was also one
of the first Alternative Art Spaces in the country
funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, one of five
"Alternative Arts Education Programs" in California
funded by the California Arts Council, and also one of the
first "brownfield" projects of the trust for public
Land. Ms. Sherk was the Founding Executive Director and
President beginning in 1974 to the end of 1980.
Recently, the Living Library
Model was suggested by the Secretary General of the
United Nations Habitat 11 Programme to be part of the "Worlds
Best Practices & Local Leadership of Habitat 11".
Ms. Sherk also won an award from the Arts and Healing Network
and was named the "Most Outstanding Healing Artist
For the Year 2001 of the Arts & Healing Network"
by its Founder & Director, Marion Rockefeller Weber.
Additionally, Steve Jobs, Chairman of Apple Computers, Inc.
nominated A Living Library for a Smithsonian Computerworld
Award in the category of "Environment, Energy, and
Agriculture." A Living Library is now part
of the permanent research collection of the Smithsonian
and featured on its Innovations Website, http://innovate.si.edu.
* MEANING OF A LIVING
LIBRARY, THINK PARK, AND LIFE FRAME
CONNECTING FRAGMENTS & MAKING THINGS WHOLE
The term A Living
Library is a metaphor. Everyone and everything
on earth is part of A Living Library
of diversity - people, birds, trees, air, water - and all
the things we create - parks, gardens, buildings, schools,
libraries, curricula, artworks, computers, networks, businesses,
ceremonies, communities - As such, it is a holistic, conceptual
and aesthetic important systemic idea. A
Living Library is also a Think
Park, an environment meant to make us think,
feel, and be more empathetic. The term,
Life Frame, refers to our perception of life
and all the elements that we see. The Life Frame literally
frames life so we can see it and experience it better.
PLEASE
VIEW THE FOLLOWING PAGES FROM A RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKLET ON
A LIVING LIBRARY
AND PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
www.alivinglibrary.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE
CONTACT
BONNIE ORA SHERK:
bonnieora@alivinglibrary.org
(415) 206-9710
(212) 242-1700
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A Living Library is also collaborating with River Of Words, founded by the Poet Laureate, Robert Haas to create opportunities for student expression through words and visual arts related to the environment. This work will additionally be able to focus on the importance of global unity, connection, and peace.
A Living Library & Think Park Conceptual Master Plan has been developed in conjunction with a Steering Committee comprised of students from each grade level, teachers, administrators, parents, city agencies, and other community partners. The Plan was supported by the San Francisco Mayors Office of Community Development and Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides Foundation. The Plan was developed by Bonnie Ora Sherk and Life Frames, Inc., the non-profit sponsor of A Living Library and the OMI / Excelsior Living Library & Think Park.
Every part of the process of research, planning, design, implementation, use, maintenance, management, and communicating is becoming part of the interdisciplinary curricula, during the school day and in our after-school program, and is being documented through a variety of digital technologies. All of our findings and process is being translated into the OMI / Excelsior Living Library Multimedia Digital Archives, added to the Living Library Website (www.alivinglibrary.org), and linked live through various technologies to Branch Living Libraries as they emerge around the globe. There are also many other opportunities to develop additional Living Library products and processes.
DEVELOPING BRANCH LIVING LIBRARIES IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES
A Branch Living Library is currently being planned for Roosevelt Island, New York, located in the middle of the East River adjacent to Manhattan, where the community has about 40% of its residents associated with the United Nations. We are working closely with the schools, senior groups, art groups, and others in that community and the larger New York area to create a significant opportunity for healing as well as to create a relevant community learning environment that incorporates the local resources: ecological, built, and multicultural - past, present, and future.
We are interested in linking with other school communities around the country and world that would like to develop a unique site and culturally-sensitive Branch Living Library. There are also many other opportunities to develop additional Living Library programs, products and processes. Please contact us for more information.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF A LIVING LIBRARY
The Founder and Director of A Living Library and Life Frames, Inc., the non-profit sponsor, is Bonnie Ora Sherk, who has developed this systemic approach to educational and environmental transformation that integrates interdisciplinary, project-based learning, community ecological planning, sustainable design, development, and ongoing usage with sate-of-the-art communications technologies. Sherk who is trained as a landscape architect, planner, and educator, is also a professional artist, who has exhibited her work in museums and galleries all over the world. Her work has also been internationally published in art and design books, journals, and magazines, as well as shown on network television. She has been creating and implementing systemic design processes and Life Frame, Living Library, Think Park* plans for sites around the country for over 25 years. An early and successful Life Frame, was an urban community farm, environmental education and multi-arts center called Crossroads Community (the farm). Located adjacent to a major freeway interchange in San Francisco, The Farm, as it was commonly known, was also one of the first Alternative Art Spaces in the country funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, one of five "Alternative Arts Education Programs" in California funded by the California Arts Council, and also one of the first "brownfield" projects of the trust for public Land. Ms. Sherk was the Founding Executive Director and President beginning in 1974 to the end of 1980.
Recently, the Living Library Model was suggested by the Secretary General of the United Nations Habitat 11 Programme to be part of the "Worlds Best Practices & Local Leadership of Habitat 11". Ms. Sherk also won an award from the Arts and Healing Network and was named the "Most Outstanding Healing Artist For the Year 2001 of the Arts & Healing Network" by its Founder & Director, Marion Rockefeller Weber. Additionally, Steve Jobs, Chairman of Apple Computers, Inc. nominated A Living Library for a Smithsonian Computerworld Award in the category of "Environment, Energy, and Agriculture." A Living Library is now part of the permanent research collection of the Smithsonian and featured on its Innovations Website, http://innovate.si.edu.
* MEANING OF A LIVING
LIBRARY, THINK PARK, AND LIFE FRAME
CONNECTING FRAGMENTS & MAKING THINGS WHOLE
The term A Living Library is a metaphor. Everyone and everything on earth is part of A Living Library of diversity - people, birds, trees, air, water - and all the things we create - parks, gardens, buildings, schools, libraries, curricula, artworks, computers, networks, businesses, ceremonies, communities - As such, it is a holistic, conceptual and aesthetic important systemic idea. A Living Library is also a Think Park, an environment meant to make us think, feel, and be more empathetic. The term, Life Frame, refers to our perception of life and all the elements that we see. The Life Frame literally frames life so we can see it and experience it better.
PLEASE
VIEW THE FOLLOWING PAGES FROM A RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKLET ON
A LIVING LIBRARY
AND PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
www.alivinglibrary.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE
CONTACT
BONNIE ORA SHERK:
bonnieora@alivinglibrary.org
(415) 206-9710
(212) 242-1700
email:bonnieora@alivinglibrary.org
A Living Library, Think Park &
Life Frame are Registered Trademarks
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