I was born in 1946, thus making me a senior. (baby image and parents)

My SAGE project continues to expand my unique SE Portland home into a Life-Affirming Educational Meetinghouse, thus making me an advocate (house image)

Inclusion is my highest goal. Inclusion generally: the Meetinghouse available for people to learn from each other, share their myriad life experiences with each other. SE Portland includes a wider demographic of people than many other Portland neighborhoods. I seek to bring people together. Larry & Rosemary), home tour image

More specifically, I seek to evolve people’s understanding of physical inclusion in spaces: public and private. I describe this as accessibly for Everybody and Every Body. (Urban Center)

My home offers ideas relating to Aging in Place, Sustainability, Universal Design, and Lifelong Housing for Yourself and Those Who You Love.
Build it green home tour, certificate

Pocket doors instead of swing doors
Grab bars in the bathroom
Natural light skylights, large living room window
Ramps instead of stairs

My home incorporates many wonderful and often original works of art. My home is actually a work of art. Influenced by the architect Louis Sullivan that “Form Forever Follows Function,” my home “works” very well but also radiates a sense of beauty, joy, peace, and tranquility.

My home emphasizes nature, its beauty, its healing attributes, and its ability to provide design direction. My goal incorporates engaging life in all forms: plants, animals, humans, the sun, the rain, the symbiosis of the universe.

By including unique waterfalls, my yard abounds with animal life birds, bees, squirrels, chickens. waterfalls

The enclosed space of my home offers a retreat, a sanctuary, a very meditative environment in which to learn from all of life: people, nature, the cosmos.

For me, sustainability also means creating a living space that provides me with pleasure and peace of mind, thus sustaining my life. Larry & Emeralda, Oscar, 4 chickens, Alfred E. Neuamn

Within two years, I will transfer legal ownership of my home to a local non-profit organization to establish, in perpetuity, my home’s valuable educational attributes, now and into the future. This aligns with SAGE’s guiding principle: “generational equity – that each generation should sustain or improve the quality of life for the next.”

“Learning Glass” is a good corollary for faculty who use a whiteboard for teaching. It has the advantage of providing “instructor presence” as well. And for those of you who are uncomfortable in front of a camera, doing something active like drawing can help take the edge off.

The Process

You’ll meet with me, Michael Annus, in advance to go over the whole process and to answer any questions you might have. We’ll talk about what you want to do to prepare for the recording, including whether you’ll work from outline or a script (we do have a teleprompter available). Some (most) faculty bring along a paper outline only that they keep near-at-hand.

On the day-of the recording, you will be able to just focus on what you want to accomplish and we take care of the rest. I’ll be there to direct things and provide feedback and/or answer questions as we go along. We aim to create a low-pressure environment for you so that you can do your best work.

Please take a look at the videos in this playlist to see how С��è��ý faculty have used this set-up:

Stills of the Learning Glass Set-Up

The Learning Glass is set-up in the TCB 111 studio at С��è��ý’s Sylvania campus. We use professional gear, including a high-definition video camera with 4K capabilities, studio lights and an overhead/boom microphone (so that you can work untethered to a lapel mic).

The Whitridge Full Plane house was completed in 2012 and is a net-zero water and energy house. The house was designed by Michele Jeresek at and built by . This video documents the landscape that was designed and installed for the house. Featured here are: Erin Muir, Landscape Architect, at , and Dave Barmon, Landscape Contractor, at .

Links to other projects in the ‘Making a Better City’ Series:

Background – The Beverly Apartments – Cully Grove – Eight x 17 – Flexhouse – June Key Delta Community Center –��Kelley House – Stoffel House

Links to other projects in the ‘Making a Better City’ Series:

Background – The Beverly Apartments – Cully Grove – Eight x 17 – Flexhouse – June Key Delta Community Center –��Kelley House – Mint Dental – Phelps-Montgomery House –��Stoffel House –��Whitridge Full Plane House

The Stoffel family rebuilt their small, older home in Portland, Oregon to be more energy efficient and comfortable with an eye towards sustainable practices, techniques and technologies. In this video, Markus Stoffel talks about some of the decisions behind the rebuild and shows some highlights. The Stoffel family are members of the neighborhood group, the “Ainsworth Collective.”

Links to other projects in the ‘Making a Better City’ Series:

Background – The Beverly Apartments – Cully Grove – Eight x 17 – Flexhouse – June Key Delta Community Center –��Kelley House –��Whitridge Full Plane House

Links to other projects in the ‘Making a Better City’ Series:

Background – The Beverly Apartments – Cully Grove – Eight x 17 – Flexhouse – June Key Delta Community Center –��Kelley House – Mint Dental – Stoffel House –��Trillium Public Charter School –��Whitridge Full Plane House

Links to other projects in the ‘Making a Better City’ Series:

Background – The Beverly Apartments – Cully Grove – Eight x 17 – Flexhouse – June Key Delta Community Center –��Kelley House –��Phelps-Montgomery House –��Stoffel House –��Trillium Public Charter School –��Whitridge Full Plane House