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Artefatica’s first project is a collaboration with Montreal artist Emily-Rose Michaud. We’re producing a book, website, and some wonderful swag to celebrate Emily’s work in the Maguire Meadow, document the many community uses of this wild urban space (a terrain vague), and provide activists and the city with materials and ideas as they plan its future.  The team (more on them to come) is in place and we’ve been hard at work, meeting weekly, planning, pulling together content. We’ve developed the outline for the book:

• The Roerich Garden project: Summary
• This is a living community space: Writing, photos, video, drawings, and archival materials that show all the ways the community uses this space
• Us in the world: Similar initiatives locally, nationally, globally
• A vision for the future: What are the possibilities for this space? Preservation? Development?

Do you have content you’d like to submit? If so, please send it to Emily. All content and outputs will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, allowing subsequent creators to remix and build on it.

Would you like to receive updates on the book? Subscribe below and we’ll keep you posted. We’re hoping to launch the first edition in August 2009.

Note to self: It takes waaaay longer than this to create a book in your non-working time that gathers submissions from over 50 people! Read the next update.

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Photo of Emily on home page by Kevin Brown.
Photo above of Roerich Garden by Melissa Campbell.