The S-Club

Despite being logistically challenged, our meeting the past Friday was quite productive.

Apologies to everyone with a conflict. The next meeting will be on Monday, March 12, at 7pm, so hopefully you'll be able to make that one.

Summary:

We started off with reintroductions and a conversation about our hopes for the organization. This naturally turned into a discussion of our goals moving forward and a handful of tangible next steps emerged.

1) Platform/Goals:

"Sustainable" is a term that has come to be used because it allows a degree of comprimise. Economically, it allows for growth while also indicating that the growth must not limit the future functioning of the system. Depending on your point of view, the system can mean a range of things.

How is "sustainable" relevant to our work, and what will it mean for us?

We are a group of graduate and undergraduate students at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley...

• Interdepartmental classes
• Studios geared towards sustainability
• Ecological design minor - courses aren't consistently offered
• Sustainability themed architecture lecture series - we want the main lecture series for the department to adopt a sustainable design theme for a semester.
• Student Led Curriculum - Student group that works with studios to educate about issues in sustainable design
• desk crits, lecture, mail list, something similar to Gary Black's structures as a supplement to studios

A virtual space to meet and discuss any topic. Once we get better organized we can have different discussion groups...