Ecological Performance in Demonstration Exhibitions David van Vliet, PhD, MCIP Department of City Planning Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2 Canada Tel (204) 474-7176 ; Fax (204) 474-7532 Email vanvliet@cc.UManitoba.CA Paper presented at the "The Unstoppable Wave Ecological Design Conference". " July 4-7/02 Berkeley, CA San Francisco Institute of Architecture Draft not to be cited.

2004: Rae Bridgman completed her book manuscript, StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless (under contract with Broadview Press). She also worked on an edited volume arising from her research on child-friendly cities and participatory planning and design in Canada. Her book, Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women, published by the University of Toronto Press (summer of 2003), has been reviewed favourably (see http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/index.html).

2002: Rae Bridgman's book manuscript, "Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women", has been granted a publishing subsidy ($7000) from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The book is being published by the University of Toronto Press. Two recent articles include: ìFieldnotes from home--anthropology and design on exhibitionî, published in Design and the Social Sciences: Making Connections edited by Jorge Frascara (London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002), pp. 125-134; and ìHousing chronically homeless women: ìinsideî a safe havenî, published in Housing Policy Debate, volume 13, number 1, pp. 51-81.
Rae Bridgman's solo exhibition, "Invisible Cities' (inspired by Italo Calvino's book by the same name) was held at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, 1 - 29 August 2002. Her quilt, 'Alfalfa Fields', was included in the Seventeenth Annual Juried Spring Exhibition at the Manitoba Crafts Council, (16 May - 15 June, 2002), and received the top award, The Judith Ryan Memorial Award for Excellence in Artistry and Craftsmanship. She also received a Writers Grant ($2,000) from the Manitoba Arts Council to develop the manuscript for a novel.

2001: Rae reports a manuscript "A Crazy Quilt: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women." is under review by U of T Press. The title of the ACSP Conference (November 9-11 in Cleveland) paper is: "We are the first youth, we are the first phase, and we have to make it happen": Case study of a pilot project for surburban homeless youth." The prolific writer has several articles in press that will be added to her listings. She also presented a paper "Making it visual: anthropology, research methods and the design professions" at the Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, May 2001.

Sheri Blake: Sheri completed her sabatical period for research on Community Design Centres at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Articles submitted for publication (completed while on sabbatical) are:

• "Community Design Centers: An Alternative Practice." In Robert Shibley and Don Watson, Editors. Time Saver Standards for Urban Design. MacGraw Hill. Forthcoming.

• "Community Design Centers: An Alternative Urban Design Practice in Support of Community Based Development Initiatives." Submitted for peer review to Housing Policy Debate, May 2001.

• "West Broadway Community Land Trust: Lessons Learned. Ottawa": Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, Homegrown Solutions. Forthcoming.

Two papers were presented at the 33rd Annual Congress of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA), Quebec City: "More Than Just Housing: Community Revitalization in Winnipeg, Canada." Panel on Urban Renewal in Liverpool, Quebec City and Winnipeg, Many Voices, One message: April 26 and "West Broadway community Land Trust." Homegrown Solutions Poster Session Discussion.

"A Curriculum for Communty Design Education: A Workshop." Association for Community Design 2001 Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 21

David van Vliet:

Attended the first MILUNET (Multi-functional Intensive Land Use Network) workshop in Stockholm Sweden June 8-11. The case study was the urban design integration (focus on infrastructure) of the Kista town centre. Kista is the IT centre of Scandinavia with over 37,000 IT jobs, associated office, commercial, education, housing, and proposed transport infrastructure, working with planners from the City of Stockholm and the Stockholm Region.

Participated in the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Conference May 1-3 in Grenoble France, to develop contacts and identify partners for a Canada European Union Mobility Exchange Program for a proposal in 2005.

Dr. David van Vliet, in August ’03, assisted the International Institute for the Urban Environment (IIUE - Delft Netherlands) and lead partner HABIFORUM, a public organisation in the Netherlands focusing on multifunctional intensive land use, in preparing a major research and diffusion proposal to the European Commission (EC Interreg IIIc). This has recently been awarded ¤ 2,000,000 and will continue to 2007. The 'MILUnet' is dedicated to the generation, collection, exchange and transfer of knowledge on the subject of multifunctional intensive land use as a means to realize more sustainable urban development in Europe. Network members include major European research institutions and leading cities. The main objectives are to identify and analyse the opportunities MILU presents for sustainable urban development, identify barriers to MILU being adopted, find effective policies and instruments to realise, and to disseminate knowledge. The focus is on the themes of infrastructure, urban green and water, chosen for their importance to urban planning and their large potential contribution to sustainable urban development. Dr. van Vliet will support the MILUnet programme, as an invited member of the Innovation Board. Tasks include linking European with non-European MILU experience, joining seminars and ‘implementation laboratories’ to evaluate the lessons learned on the ground, contributing to the comparative analysis of good and bad practices, and help formulate MILU-based planning instruments and MILU-policy guidelines. This area of inquiry will constitute the focus of his international research program. He will develop parallel research to apply lessons learned to advance networking initiatives in Canada.

David presented a paper "Ecological Performance in Demonstration Exhibitions" at "The Unstoppable Wave Ecological Design Conference" July 4-7 / 2002 Berkeley, CA San Francisco Institute of Architecture

David presented a paper titled "Area Based Demonstration / Exhibition: Adaptive Management and Learning in Municipal and Development Organizations" at the European Urban Research Association (EURA) Conference "Area-based Initiatives In Contemporary Urban Policy Innovations in City Governance", (co-sponsored by By og Byg (Housing and Urban Research Institute) in København Denmark 17–19 May 2001.
Continuing in the documentation of innovative practice of more sustainable community planning and design David undertook research in Sweden, and Germany this summer. He is constructing case studies of Västa Hamnen (the site of the Bo01 European Housing Exhibition) in Malmö Sweden and Kronsberg in Hannover, Germany.