Turning Trash into Treasure
A Project of the Energy and Sustainable Design Studio
Department of Architecture and Interior Design
Miami University


This semester students in the Energy and Sustainable Design Studio   will
work with artists from Ohio Valley Creative Energy to design a   green,
eco-friendly community art center for OVCE.   Ohio Valley   Creative
Energy was founded to provide a heat intensive multi-arts   facility for
glass, clay, and metal artists. The center will be built   on an existing
landfill in Clark County Indiana, with  methane gas   from the landfill
used to power all of the artist studios in the   facility.

The artists from Ohio Valley Creative Energy will be exhibiting their  
art work in the Cage Gallery, in Alumni Hall from January 19th
through February 3rd.  On February 2nd Lori Beck, the Director of the  
project for OVCE will be making a presentation, in Rm. 1, Alumni Hall   on
the use of landfill gas for energy and the work she has been doing   to
develop their new community art center.  That evening and the   following
day Students in the Energy and Sustainable Design Studio   will be working
in collaboration with 10-12 artists from OVCE to   generate ideas and
develop concepts for their new center.  The Page   Center for
Entrepreneurship will also be working with us on the
development of a long range business and marketing plan for the new  
center.  Following the weekend brainstorming sessions students in the  
Energy and Sustainable Design Studio will then develop building
designs based on the ideas that the participants in the charrette  
selected to pursue further.  The final designs will be presented to  
OVCE, Hoosier Electric Power, and Clark County Rural Electric
Membership Corporation later in the spring.

For additional information contact:
Scott Johnston
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513.523.9506