Teaching at Centro Intercultural de Documentacion, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on March 1971: Design with a communal pattern language

Series of workshops taught at Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC), a higher education campus founded by Ivan Illich. CES was invited to participate in the school activities; the contact was made by UCB professor Roslyn Lindheim, a friend of Ivan Illich and then, in the Board of Directors of CES. The author of “Communitas” Paul Goodman was also there at that time.
Murray SIlverstein led a series of workshops and presented an early version of “A Pattern Language”, titled “The Environment”, and invited students to design a student housing project, laying it out on the ground in the course of a week and using a communal pattern language. Ivan Illich brother Sascha, an architect, participated in the series of workshops, and wrote the editor’s note in a copy of “The Environment” kept by CIDOC.