5 Year Project Agenda

The Center will explore the following outline of issues and themes from 2004-2008, with selected projects for demonstration and debate each spring:

Construction of reclaimed land from the sea and desert, as an opportunity for national and economic development, conserving existing heritage, landscape and ecologies.

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Focuses on the potentials available in Re-Connecting Sites, Nations and Cultures following major conflict—through the construction of inter-ethnic institutions, of provincial and national identities and infrastructures, continental and intercontinental linkages including current conceptions of the Silk Road, and international education and youth service.

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*US Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace coined the phrase "the ever-normal granary" in the 1930's, seeking to establish adequate food reserves in times of need, modeled on a 12th century Chinese concept.

Establishment of accessible water supply and reserves, with exploration of related implications

Water Transfer Potentials
Aqueduct networks, Water shipping and distribution
Europe-Africa, South America-Africa, Trans-Asia, Turkey-Saudi Arabia, Indian subcontinent, Western North America

Energy generation and distribution for a post-petroleum era.

Global Energy Networks
Renewable Energy Potentials: Solar Power Satellites, Wind and Tidal Turbine Power
Infrastructure and decentralization

Environmental regeneration following the alteration of natural ecologies through human use

Reforestation and Habitat Recovery
North Africa
Urban Forestry; Re-Forestation in the Himalaya, Central Europe, Haiti, the Americas; River Recovery, Wildlife Habitat