Marc Tobin

Mark Lakeman is a national leader in the development of sustainable public places. In the last decade he has directed, facilitated, or inspired designs for more than three hundred new community-generated public places in Portland, Oregon alone. Through his leadership in Communitecture, Inc., and it’s various affiliates such as the The City Repair Project (501(c)3), The Village Building Convergence, and the Planet Repair Institute, he has also been instrumental in the development of dozens of participatory organizations and urban permaculture design projects across the United States and Canada. Mark works with governmental leaders, community organizations, and educational institutions in many diverse communities.

Marc Tobin is the Executive Director of The City Repair Project. He is also a consultant for ecovillage and sustainable community development. Marc directed education for sustainable community courses at Lost Valley Educational Center, and has worked with many ecovillages and intentional communities on site planning, permaculture design, social sustainable, team building, and organizational development. Marc holds a Master Degree in Community Planning and a BA in Environmental Studies. He is also an avid musician and member of the band Sol Nectar.

Scheduled Appearances

  • The Village Lives

    Location: Fishbon Studies

    Mark Lakeman presents the philosophy and history of City Repair. The presentation is chronological, proceeding from the most accessible scales to enormous, visionary collaborations involving thousands of people. As an overall movement, each project repeats the essential principles of localization, community participation and placemaking, while building upon each success to manifest larger and larger impacts. As both an organization and a larger movement, City Repair inspires and guides the transformation of the grid infrastructure of the typical American city into a vital social commons. As a multidisciplinary culture, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform space and transfer power at local levels. Through a restorative process in which citizens re-imagine and literally re-build their own commons, we are engendering relationships that revitalize the fabric of our local communities within the existing context of social isolation. By re-asserting localized village patterns in the city grid, City Repair establishes both the physical and social foundation for sustainable culture. For more information, visit http://www.cityrepair.org.

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