Reverence included large scale projected NASA photographs of human impact on the environment; a continuous projected screening of Godfrey Reggio's "Anima Mundi," a film with musical score by Phillip Glass focusing on preserving the earth's species, the environment, and their binding relationship; a series of posters on Green issues and environmental action initiatives, drawn form the Center for the Study of Political Graphics; a fine art installation called "Panamint Tilt" by Jessica Bronson, symbolizing the earth as a macro-network; an art installation by Lita Albuquerque charting alignments between earth and sky and commemorating the "Nucleosynthesis Theory" accounting of earth's elements; a letterpress memorial to extinct species over the last 500 years by Gloria Kondrup; and a series of nature photographs by Ansel Adams juxtaposed against a series of toxic dump photographs by Edward Burtynsky. Additionally, there was an evolving student project area in the gallery, where thoughts, concepts, and insights in development were documented -- a changing, lively, idea-incubation "working" space featuring three ongoing projects. Reverence student projects included: Instructor Heidrun Mumper-Drumm Class Design for Sustainability Students Robert Foote , Dawn Lozzi Project Oxfam, together with three Fair Trade co-ops, is developing a new concept in retail coffee service, rooted in an ethically based business model. The students will design an identity system, branded space, signage, packaging and table top, working with sustainable materials to inform the brand concept and retail design environment, while avoiding the 'green' design aesthetic. Oxfam is an organization committed to creating lasting solutions to global poverty, hunger, and social injustice. The project will call attention to the plight of coffee growers worldwide. Instructor Heidrun Mumper-Drumm Class Design for Sustainability Student Jonathan Abarbanal Project This project will research the basic tenets of sustainable design — its history, current practices, future trends and design strategies. From this research the student will develop several concepts for products and/or systems that apply sustainable design strategies. During the second term of this independent study [Spring 2006], the student will select a product and/or system to develop fully. Instructor Tracy Stone Class A Question of Design: Affordable Housing as Sustainable Ecosystem Students Jae Won Cho, Annie Emirzian, Youllie Kim, Christian C. Lee, Aimee E. Less, Kyung-Hwa Na, John P. Wheeler Project This studio will accept the challenge to develop a new residential paradigm that challenges conventional ideas about affordable housing to create the 'self-sufficient' dwelling: a house that produces more energy than it consumes, that produces food, that recycles and cleans its own water, and whose waste naturally deteriorates over time and can be discarded in the garden as food for the plants. The class will recycle an existing traditional, (and soon to be obsolete) supermarket in Los Angeles into a laboratory for pursuing a new vision of a sustainable housing environment. Students will research case studies of successful social housing experiments worldwide to understand the affordable housing typology. Students will analyze the existing neighborhood and building, identifying current assets that can be maximized (enhanced) as well as existing barriers to sustainability.