BGI Campus

The Duwamish tribe were displaced, local farming was displaced, the river was straightened, the water and air and soil given the highest levels of contamination and now the area has the highest levels of crime, lowest home value and ownership rates, lowest education and exceedingly highest diversity in the city. So I want to build a college campus here in an old warehouse or two on what is now a superfund site.

Obviously it is impossible and I am impractical to even consider something no experience professional would touch. But, it is my core belief that the best ideas are the ones just like this; bold, innovative and insane.

The quick is that I want to use restorative building and ecology to create a university campus for students from GED to PhD that becomes the center of green industry in Seattle, an "incubator" for innovation, and that becomes an integrated component of the neighborhood, incorporating social justice and community economic development as a matter of the school's basic operations.

So I put together a 4 page summary proposal to my community at school and have received an overwhelming level of support from high administration, alumni and fellow students. It confirms 2 things. A: my school is full of insane people who are bold and innovative and utterly impractical... and B: that we are going to change the world.