Fwd: Marjetica Potrc events this weekend

Creative Time and The Architectural League
Present

MARJETICA POTRC AND BUNKER ROY: URBAN INDEPENDENT

Friday, September 27, 2002
6:30 pm
Lighthouse International
111 East 59th Street, NYC

For member reservations please call 212-980-3767
or e-mail
[email protected].
League members free, non-members $10
For information call 212-753-1722

On Saturday, September 28, as part of Creative
Time's "Consuming Places"
exhibition, Marjetica Potrc will be joined by
Bunker Roy, Aleksandra Wagner,
Detroit artist Kyong Park, and the New York
design partnership Gans &
Jelacic for a public presentation and discussion
moderated by Lebbeus Woods.
The presentations and discussion will be the
culmination of a day-long
closed workshop in which participants will be
exploring models of
participatory urban planning and considering
scenarios for application in
New York City. This event is free and open to the
public.

Saturday, September 28, 4:30-6:30 PM
The Stable, 16 Main Street at Water Street,
DUMBO, Brooklyn
F to York Street, A/C to High Street

For more information about the Saturday event,
contact Peter Eleey at
[email protected].
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Marjetica Potrc, the Slovenian artist and
architect, and Bunker Roy,
director of the Social Work Research Centre in
Tilonia, India, are committed
to the importance of individual initiative in
planning and building
architecture and infrastructure systems, and the
delicate balance between
modern technologies and traditional methods.

In her work, Ms. Potrc explores shantytowns or
favelas