For further information regarding the International Symposium on Ancient Design Principles  please click the link below.

Click here for the 2007 symposium poster

Click here for the schedule of symposium events/lectures.

Click here to view a map of New Harmony, registration takes place at the Barn Abbey

To register for the symposium, please visit: https://www.planning.org/conferences/newharmony2007.htm

Presenters:

1.  Richard Demarco, Edinburgh, Scotland

Richard is a professor emeritus of European Cultural Studies, Kingston University, UK. He is an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy & Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects of Scotland. He is the founder and director of the Demarco European Art Foundation and of the Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh, which offers an arts experimental summer school in collaboration with Edinburgh University Schools of Scottish and Experimental Studies. He is a strong proponent of the re-introduction of ancient design principles in art, architecture and urban design. He will talk on the power of number and its application to architecture, and his vision for New Harmony in relationship to New Lanark, Scotland.

2.  Ron Fleming

3.  John Fowler

4.  Jonathan Hale, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jonathan is the author of THE OLD WAY OF SEEING, How Architecture Lost It's Magic (And How It Got It Back). He has been a practicing architect since the early '70's, and his current works include: Design Guidelines for New Communities in Wilmington, NC and Spokane Valley, WA, working with teams of non-architect builders.

For more information regarding Jonathan Hale, click here.

5.  Bruce A. Knight, FAICP,
Region IV Director

Bruce is Planning Director of Champaign, Illinois and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois in the department of Urban and Regional Planning. He also has worked as a city planner in Liberty, Missouri, and Iowa City, Iowa and as a regional planner with the Mid-Iowa Development Association Council of Governments in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Knight Joined APA in 1980 and became a certified planner in 1985. He served two terms as APA Illinois Chapter President from 1997-1999, and served on the Fellows of AICP Task Force. He also chaired the 2000 and 2001 National APA Awards Juries. Knight has a B.S. in Urban Planning from Iowa St. University and an M.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Iowa.

6.  John David Mooney, Environmental Artist

John David, artist and founder of the John David Mooney Foundation in Chicago, is known internationally for his large-scale public sculptures that drew their inspiration from the spirit of place and the consideration of astronomical phenomena. The importance of the site, its past history and present environment, is acknowledged in his works. John David attended last years symposium, serving as the summary speaker at the community design charette. This year, his presentation will trace the relationship of astronomical phenomena in his recent work and discuss its presence in the architecture of the world's great civilizations.

7.  Kent Schuette

8.  Jeffrey L. Soule, FAICP - Policy Director, American Planning Association

Jeff Soule has held a number of planning and policy positions in government and the non-profit sector:

Senior Planner for the Tug Hill Commission in Watertown, New York providing technical assistance to 39 towns and 14 villages in a rural four-county region, Policy Coordinator for the US Department of Agriculture, in Washington, DC, where he directed a three-year small town revitalization program in cooperation with the National Main Street Center of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Program Administrator/Director, National Endowment for the Arts Design Program, developing and implementing initiatives including the Mayor’s Institute on City Design and "Your Town: Designing its Future", Director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, developing research and demonstration projects, providing technical assistance, and advising state and federal officials on policy matters. He pioneered series of community vision workshops, which led to a broad acceptance of locally based approach to planning highlighted by citizen involvement and manageable implementation strategies. He helped guide APA’s policy on sustainable development and was advisor to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality for their American Heritage Rivers program.  The Center for Rural Pennsylvania provided grants for applied research and other projects through the Pennsylvania State University and State System of Higher Education. He established a series of training programs that created local teams to implement community visions and then targeted state and federal assistance to supporting the community plan. Mr. Soule participated and hosted several professional exchanges including the Countryside Exchange, a program of the Glynwood Center in New York.

Mr. Soule became Policy Director of the American Planning Association in 1996 where he manages Government Affairs, Public Information and Policy for the Associations’ 33,000 members. There he has expanded partnerships with other organizations and improved legislative services to APA’s chapters. In 1997 he launched an initiative with the Chinese government to provide long-term technical assistance through exchanges and special projects. He produced an innovative urban design approach and plan for a large site in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area. As special advisor to the Mayor of Nanjing he developed a strategy for preserving and revitalizing the city’s historic neighborhoods. Mr. Soule is APA’s representative to the Government of China and is serving as advisor to Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuan Ciao. He has also lead efforts to conserve natural resources while providing economic opportunities for rural areas. He co-developed a comprehensive training course for China under the auspices of the World Bank.

He has written and lectured extensively on urban design, rural development, historic preservation, environmental conservation and heritage area planning. Mr. Soule recently completed two-year service as the Donlan Fellow at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science at Syracuse. He has also taught graduate courses in planning at the University of Maryland. Mr. Soule has initiated relationships with a variety of university-based centers for design and community planning assistance, including Florida Atlantic University, Tulane, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also supervises a fellowship program that recruits promising Masters candidates for a three month fellowship in Washington DC.  

Mr. Soule is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, FAICP. He served as President of the Baltimore Chapter of the International Land Economics Society, Lambda Alpha and is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington DC. Jeff received a BA degree, with honors, from Colgate University in Natural Science, and Masters Degrees from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Kennedy School of Government.

9. Michael Francis Gibson

Art critic, art historian, anthropologist, writer, independant scholar, and occasional musician, Michael Francis Gibson has published books, articles, essays, and poems in both English and French.

In the 1960s he founded and directed music center, the College Musical de Trie, devoted to issues of interpretation of early music. The teachings of his school are now widely applied by musicians everywhere. At the same time he translated E.R. Dodds' The Greeks and the Irrational into French. This earned him the thanks of Claude Levi-Strauss (who termed the book "un des maitre-livres de notre tempes" - "one of the books of our times".)

Ever since the 1970s he has regularly written art criticism for the International Herald-Tribune, The New York Times and many other publications (Art in America, Art News, Connaissance de Arts, ect.) and produced numerous radio programs (Radio-Canada, France-Culture) devoted to cultural and philosophical issues.

For more information, please contact Kent Schuette at: schuettk@purdue.edu

More information will be posted in the days to come.