Personal Pattern Language

Note: Participants must register for the workshop to take part in the interactive segment. If you were unable to register, you can still sit in on the verbal content.

In this one hour guided workshop, participants will explore and create imagined sites of belonging using vernacular building and alt-architectural methods. Shapes, patterns, and relational inquiry will shepherd our collective imaginings around place, community, and structures of use. Participants will be asked to step outside of normative architectural inquiry and dive into aliveness. Noneconomical. Bucolic. Homespun. Spirit.

This workshop is guided by the spirit of a pattern language:

A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of patterns, each of which describes a problem and the core of a solution that can be used in many ways within a specific field of expertise. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander and popularized by his 1977 book A Pattern Language. A pattern language can also be an attempt to express the deeper wisdom of what brings aliveness within a particular field of human endeavor, through a set of interconnected patterns. Aliveness is one placeholder term for "the quality that has no name": a sense of wholeness, spirit, or grace, that while of varying form, is precise and empirically verifiable.

Supplies: bring drawing materials, recommended white paper and multiple pens/markers (heavy, thin, variable) Everyone will be provided with a shared resource channel related to this workshop at conclusion.

This hour will be guided by two sister angels of the prairie whose combined work scouts the boundaries of rustic inquiry, places of gathering & bonds, social and cultural landscapes, and what it means to shelter.