[Dialogue] profound demonstration

Wed Apr 11 10:00:06 EDT 2012

Marge Philbrook recently sent out a message re: upcoming Spring Archives
Sojourn Weeks, April 30-May 12, 2012.  "Support and bodies" are always
welcome. It is great fun working with the Chicago Archives team members and
others who show up. The Archives workspace is right down the hall from the
kitchen. 

One Team will be working with the Town Meeting Collection.  People who
worked with the Town Meetings on the ground and at Centrum are needed. We
will focus on the design, planning, implementation, evaluation and
monitoring of the Town Meeting Program.  Anyone who wants to learn about
Town Meetings is welcome.

The Other Team will work with the Training Programs: The Academy,
International Training School, and Human Development Training School.  We
need people who were there teaching, participating, enabling (or wish they
had been).  We will organize the files by year and by subject.

Come, you'll love it.

Beret Griffith

From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of John Cock
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:19 AM
To: 'Colleague Dialogue'; 'Order Ecumenical Community'
Subject: [Dialogue] profound demonstration

Terry, et al.,

You and the multi-cultural, multi-aged staff are quite a pluriform
demonstration for these times, indeed, important enough that you write up
and promote your knowing/being/doing ongoing history together. You act at
though Kemper is a godsend rather than an elephant of a contradiction
blocking your way, and it looks like you see the life together of your
serving community as a crucial and self-conscious part of your overall
mission.

You come from a great heritage and are living and creating a profoundly
ecumenical demonstration.

If you need support and bodies, holler.

John

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Terry Bergdall
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:55 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] renovated kitchen at 4750

Don (and to all who might be asking the same questions), the first floor
kitchen was closed a long time ago (in approximately 1990) with a new one
being established in the southwest corner of the Lawrence wing on the sixth
floor. It is this 20+ year old kitchen that was just renovated. As I
mentioned in an earlier "amendment" to my original message, a new greenhouse
has been created in the corner. Besides herbs it will produce green leafy
salad produce and some tomatoes. I am working on growing arugula.  

Some of the current residents, and their guests, who you might recognize are
Ed Feldmanis, Marge Philbrook, Lela Philbrook, and her father, Larry, who
was visiting from Taiwan, Pam Bergdall, Dennis Jennings, James Addington,
and Cheryl Hood, who was visiting from Seattle. Most of the others were
residents that you probably don't know and some of ICA-USA's current staff:
Lesley Showers, Nina Winn, Fara Taylor, Tyra Taylor, and Seva Gandhi. I wish
you all had a chance to personally meet these very fine people (and the rest
of the staff, all of whom are terrific). 

There definitely is no lunch cafeteria for daytime offices (which implies a
cook and commercial food service). The image of the new kitchen is sharp
contrast as a "shared family-style community kitchen." Everyone has their
own cupboard and storage basket in the refrigerator and freezer. People can
choose to share prep & clean-up of meals with selected others, or not. We
have tried to incorporate basic features of "co-housing" principles into the
design. These provide space that allows community life when desired -- and
individual life when that is preferred. These co-housing features are key
component, I think, to creating a successful community residence today. The
new kitchen is certainly catalyzing a new discussion among the 25 or so of
us who currently are living on the upper floors of 4750. It also is
expanding our interpretation of "community" because it also involves ICA
staff who work on the sixth floor during the day but who do not live here
the rest of the time (though there is a growing group of staff who are
choosing to live here as well). It is a very dynamic community environment.

Terry 

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Don Hinkelman <hinkel at sgu.ac.jp> wrote:

Lovely pictures, Terry.  Makes me want to come over and join you all for
dinner!

By the way, is it actually in the same location as the old commercial
kitchen on first floor?  Or on an upper floor?
Does it mean that the kitchen serves as lunch cafeteria during the day for
all the offices, as well as a breakfast/dinner area for residents?
Was that a herb garden I noticed? That seems in keeping with the new name of
the building "Green Rise".
It would be nice to see the names of all the people (I recognize only a few
faces) on the "Group2" photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenrise/6911236254/in/set-72157629768903539/

Cheers,
Don

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