The Conference Labyrinth Project
Last year the Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church built a new Conference Center by the airport in Des Moines. It was finished this spring and it a very very nice building.
There were a number of parts to the design that were pulled out by the Conference Trustees as “very good things to have, but need to be funded by donation.” A fountain, a bell, and a labyrinth are some of those things. The architect came up with a design, but the cost was a bit high for many of us. So this fall, the Chair of the Trustees asked a couple of us labyrinth people in the conference to work with her to come up with a less expensive alternative. We met just before my vacation and looked at the space and talked about thoughts and ideas. We will meet again next month, but we each have things to research.
My task was to learn more about an alternative design to the more common Chartres Cathedral 11 circuit pattern. In looking at books we all were attracted to the The Santa Rosa Labyrinth Design.
I had a delightful conversation with Lea Goode-Harris this morning and I have the material on doing the design on the way to me. This will be good.
