| Presented by: | Dennis Galucki C-SAAHN Founder Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
Buffalo Niagara's future needs to be designed around creatively
linking existing lifelong learning institutions.
The purpose of the Center for the Study of Art, Architecture, History and Nature
(C-SAAHN) is to help connect schools, libraries, colleges, cultural institutions,
medical and research centers and their supporters to foster lifelong learning for
all. The Center is based on the belief that solutions to community problems relating
to energy, transportation, health care, security, housing, food, education and general
quality of life and well-being need to be creatively found. The process of doing
so will, in turn, create a robust and sustainable economy - here and beyond.
Let us define our terms. Art means creativity while architecture includes design.
History invites storytelling and determines context for the past, present and future
of a community. Nature includes geography, ecology, even, human nature. Nature is
what researchers and scientists, artists and architects, financial advisers and many
other professionals study. As lifelong learners, many realize that they become lifelong
students of art, architecture, history and/or nature. Many become docents and volunteers
for cultural institutions and educational facilities seeing them as lifelong learning
centers.
Linking lifelong learning institutions that focus on and support the arts, architecture,
history and nature so they function as hubs and spokes for our community is a worthy
goal. Creatively designing these linkages will build on the shoulders of the great
artists, architects, historians and naturalists who preceded us. Our future as an
international visitor and tourist destination will occur and our residents quality
of life will improve as we create and implement this new lifelong learning linking
design. Helping to focus on this goal is the purpose of the Center for the
Study of Art, Architecture, History and Nature.