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We regret to say that Patrick Shearn has had tocancel his participation in this year’s Design Retreat.

We are thrilled to announce thatMina Leierwood and Peter Schulze will participate and present stories fromThe Pedal Bear Art Shanty Project!

The Pedal Bear is a polar bear, built for the Art Shanty Project at White Bear Lake. A fantastic group of engineers, science teachers, welders, artists, the DNR, Will Steger, and people who live in White Bear Lake all worked together to build a giant, multi-person, bicycle-pedaling polar bear.

The Pedal Bear was 12-feet high, 25-feet long, with a mov-ing bobble head and flapping tail. The community helped “pelt it” at White Bear Center for the Arts, North High, and in people’s homes. The fur, and most of the metal compo-nents, are recycled or upcycled materials.

The purpose? To talk about climate change, threats to our water, and to articulate solutions.

People putting their heads together, putting their skills to-gether, to build something bigger than what anyone could imagine.

Mina Leierwood is an artist and art teacher in the Min-neapolis Public Schools. Her objective: to create innovative art projects for the community; to connect and nurture our collective abilities to dream, build, inhabit and share our visions for a sustainable future.

Peter Schulze is an artist and engineer. His objective: to work in a progressive, creative environment developing unique and innovative projects for community-based arts events, and to work with people dedicated to quality and sustainability.

LSDR PRESENTATION

Friday 1:30Brent Kelleyhttp://www.corgan.com/person/brent-kelley-aia/

Brent Kelley, AIA, principal with the architectural firm of Corgan in Los Angeles, has over 27 years of experience in the planning and design with an emphasis specific to aviation facilities. Brent has been involved in the planning and design of airport terminal projects across the U.S.

including the recently opened Terminal 4 Connector that is the first secure connector to the international terminal. He is currently serving as the Design Director for the new Midfield Satellite Concourse, which is the newest terminal that will be constructed at LAX.

Solving the Puzzle of the Mega-ProjectAll designers are familiar with developing building programs and solving design problems. Any given scenario has its inherent complexities and while there are similarities regardless of the project type, the difficulty is exponentially increased when you are developing a mega-project – Think Airports. From the myriad stakeholders to the number of unique specialty consultants to the public input of a civic facility, the complexities are numerous and so inter-related that solving one without the other, can have dire consequences. This session will focus on:• Exploring the parameters of airport

terminal design• Complexity of the team• Rubik’s cube and airport terminals• How to recover when you encounter

turbulence

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Friday 3:30Mark Hansenhttp://www.northhouse.org/courses/courses/instructor.cfm?iid=43

I became a passionate builder around the age of 8 with the construction of an 8’ flat-bottomed punt, and have been building ever since. In over 50 years of making boats, homes, tools and items necessary for living, my interest in design and construction has remained. I have studied boat building in Greenland, Norway, and Northern Minnesota. I’ve designed and built 12 different homes of traditional influence and lived in them for periods of time. Since 1996, I have developed and taught 25 different courses at North House Folk School.

Presently I’m involved in two projects: a live-aboard catamaran of Polynesian and Chinese influence; and a 100 square-foot Greenland hut that can be easily disassembled and moved.

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Saturday 9:15Lucie Amundsenhttp://locallylaid.com/

“We’re a Northland family running a mission-based farm in Wrenshall, Minnesota. For us, it’s about getting people real food to local folks, while treating livestock and the planet well in the process.

And by sourcing & selling regionally, we’re championing Agriculture of the Middle and strengthening rural economies.”

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Lucie Amundsen is the co-owner of an award-winning egg farm in Wrenshall, Minnesota. Partnering with other locally-owned farms, eggs are sold regionally from hens that are pasture-raised, providing them with exercise and year round instinctual living.

Lucie is the author of Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm — From Scratch, describing the highs and the lows of egg farming and the lessons learned in America’s food system.

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Saturday 11:00Matthew Baldwinhttp://mtthwbaldwin.com/illustration/

Matthew Baldwin is an illustrator who grew up in Greater Minnesota, moved to Brooklyn, to pursue painting. And then traded his brushes for digital tools, working now as manager/lead illustrator/photo retoucher for Advertising Arts, a NYC production house. Matthew continues to create art for world-class brands, including Mercedes, Tom Ford, Chanel, Estee Lauder, BMW, Nikon, Fila, David Yurman, Harvard, The Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Seafood - Digital Art, Illustration

La Croix Water - Advertising, Digital Art, Packaging

Lust - Digital Art, Fine Arts, Illustration

Ferris - Digital Art, Fine Arts

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Saturday 4:00Diane Joneshttps://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2015/11/24/the-connector/#more-8206

Ecological Poetics: Equity as an Essential Part of Rebuilding Infrastructure

Diane Jones Allen, D. Eng., MLA, ASLA, RLA, has 30-years of experience in professional practice, research, and teaching, focusing on land planning, transportation planning, and park design projects, as well as community development work. Diane is currently principal landscape architect with DesignJones LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana. The firm is working on several community based projects in New Orleans, including assisting the Gordon Park Neighborhood in a plan for relocation of their homes from the Agricultural Dump on which they rest.

Diane’s research and practice is guided by the intersection of environmental justice, identity and sustainability in African-American cultural landscapes, including “Nomadic” responses to “Transit Deserts,” as discussed in her forthcoming book, Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form. In 2015 Diane received a research fellowship from the University of Chicago based Black Metropolitan Research Consortium to undertake research on population shifts in Chicago, which she applied to the study of Transit Deserts for her book.

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