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Keane Project at Cornell Works on Teahouse
 http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/la694/
Last Updated: 5/10/2003
As some of you may know, Marc
Peter Keane has been running a project at Cornell University
called the Teahouse Project which focuses on Japanese tea culture, tea
architecture and tea gardens. The participants (Cornell students, faculty
and local community members) are in the process of building an experimental
teahouse out of local materials. The teahouse and garden are being made by
the students almost entirely from natural materials that they are collecting
from forests, fields, and farms around Lake Cayuga. Those materials include
maple saplings, reeds, the stems of willows and red-twig dogwoods,
barn-boards, river pebbles, and field stones. It will be completed in
time for a special event on May 17th at the Johnson Museum at which Chinese,
Korean, and Japanese tea will be served by three teamasters.
The work is an integration of East Asian and Western
culture and also as an example of an intensely hands-on learning
experience. It's also been a heck of a lot of fun!
For more info, check out their
web site at http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/la694/
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