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The mission of Life
Frames, Inc
is to develop site and culturally-sensitive designs for community
learning environments in different locales with extensive community
involvement through Community
Research Mentoring Teams
that utilize all the resources in the area—human, ecological,
economic, historic, technological, and aesthetic. Each
of these environments has integrated programs, project-based interdisciplinary
curricula, and community-originated products establishing the sites
as vital life-long learning magnets for the community as well as
adding to the economic and community development of each area.
The
Goal is to develop Branch
Living Libraries
in different communities of the world to be connected using state-of-the-art
communications technologies. The
programs and projects of Life
Frames, Inc.
are meant to link and demonstrate the interconnections between
systems and phenomena—biological,
cultural, and technological.
Recently,
Bonnie Ora Sherk's
Living Library Model was
suggested by the Secretary General of the United
Nations Habitat ll Programme,
Dr. Wally N'Dow, to be part of "World's
Best Practices & Local Leadership of Habitat ll."
Ms. Sherk recently won an award and was named the "Most Outstanding
Healing Artist for the Year 2001 of the
Arts & Healing Network"
by its Founder and Director, Marion Rockefeller Weber. Additionally,
Steve Jobs of Apple Computers has nominated A
Living Library
for a Smithsonian
Award.
A
Living Library
will now become part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian
and their Innovations
Website.
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