The Unintelligent Design Society dedicated to demystifying the Wonder Bread of life, stirring the Primordial Soup and exposing the Warholian building blocks As Andy would say "Art is what The Culvert in Progress Contact: Ellen Henrici |
Welcome Home |
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Out of the hard, dusty Playa sprang a chaotic collection of Society Abodes. Our first arrivals, the dedicated and enthusiastic came home on Saturday, August 29th...the energy high...ready to erect. |
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Theme for our Playa Home |
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The Unintelligent Design Society is a collection of chaotically related evolutionary ideas that converge in discussion and art making. We are a divergent group of artists from a wide area of California assembling each year on the playa ready to foster spontaneous creative |
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play. Our members have in past years created artworks for the playa including, Playangles, The Cosmic Cocoon, Purge Tears, River Spiders and last years Altared TV/Sacred Cowch.  This coming year we have a pyramid shelter called the Way Point in the works. Our philosophy encourages open participation in artworks, afternoon chill sessions with lively topical discussion and shared food and drink. We make our structures in camp as visually interesting as possible to draw participants in to camp. The Wonder Bread and Soup Kitschen will be returning and our large shade structure the Cave has been recreated as the Culvert. The Wonder Wall evolved into the Building Blocks of Life and now mutates yet again to become our Graffiti Wall. Returning to collect more commentary on the evolution of our metropolitan culture. |
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| For this year's Metropolis theme we have focused on our Soup Kitschen. Our one time event last year the Soup Salon was such an amazing success we have decided to make it a daily gift to the city. A refreshing cool soup will be served daily along with stimulating conversation on the side. The Culvert shade area will be open to all seeking refuge from the dusty city streets. The oracle of evolution will return to offer tarot readings to all seekers. And last but not least we hold our annual superstar cocktail party. |
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LEAVE NO TRACE PLAN Camp structures are planned to withstand the desert weather, wind, sun and possible rain. No materials that will disintegrate or shed will be used. Most of our structures are recycled each year. The small holes from the construction stakes that secure the structures to the ground will be backfilled and tamped down before leaving. We have well marked recycling containers in our public areas during all scheduled activities. Designated campers pick up in camp daily. In the kitchen we have repackaged most of our food to minimize trash. Our wet garbage is dehydrated then burned. Our kitchen gray water is strained then poured into our large evaporation pond located in the shower area. Our RV's have self contained gray water systems. We are a non-smoking camp but provide portable sealed ashtrays for anyone needing one. All fuel for fire performance and generators is kept in appropriate sealed containers. The generators are kept in plywood sound boxes to minimize noise. We carry ample tools for set up and clean up lending them to other camps as needed. Our designated LNT monitors Alan Masaoka and Ellen Henrici with crew will be the last to leave the playa. Our habit is to grid the camp site removing all bits of Moop, gray water and unburnable garbage and recycling. Finally we check all stake holes and rake through any dunes that may have formed. |
