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EMMANUEL PRATT 
Chicago State University / Sweet Water Foundation
6:00pm TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center
77 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601
Urban Agriculture, Aquaponics, and the Post-Industrial City: Re-framing the discourse of urban decline
through the interface of asset-based community development, social economics, applied science, and project-based experiential learning. Please RSVP Online! $5 suggested donation at the door.
Emmanuel's presentation will offer a visual journey through his experiences in urban agriculture and aquaponics. He will highlight the complex, subtle, and transformative possibilities of 'networks' in this emerging fourth wave of American urbanization. Emmanuel examines urban agriculture and aquaponics as tools offering a variety of strategies for bolstering local economies while enhancing the critical connections needed to advance pathways towards new 21st century neighborhoods.
Emmanuel Pratt is Director of the new Aquaponics Center at Chicago State University, and Executive Director of the Milwaukee-based Sweet Water Foundation, which develops intergenerational and interdisciplinary educational programming for sustainability. Sweet Water's project-based learning process in Milwaukee and Chicago stresses the historical, technological, artistic, and cultural components of urban agriculture and aquaculture.
Emmanuel's professional and academic work has involved explorations and investigations in such topics as urbanization, race/identity, gentrification, and most recently transformative processes of community development through intersections of food security and sustainable design innovation. His ongoing "Mycelia Project" -- an innovative educational collaboration with Chicago Public Schools, Urban Gateways, and the Woodlawn Community Development Corporation -- seeks to unite Chicago communities through experimental projects that promote hands-on learning about food, soil, water and energy sustainability.
Emmanuel earned his BArch from Cornell University, his MSAUD from Columbia University in New York, and is presently a PhD candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia.
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We drive dialogue, policy, and city design. We inspire a collaborative process. We invent and test innovative prototypes that shape healthy, beautiful, sustainable cities and places. A multidisciplinary public interest design collaborative founded in 1994, Archeworks has undertaken more than 45 community design projects addressing universal design, sustainability, urban agriculture and ecology, early childhood education, neighborhood micro-enterprises, and other community needs.
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