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Edward David (ED) Berman MBE, FRSA (born 8 March 1941 in Lewiston, Maine). Professor Edward David (ED) Berman, MBE, FRSA, is an American-born British community educator, social activist, children's poet, playwright, director and producer. He is considered the UK and Europe's first and leading social entrepreneur. In 1979, HRH Queen Elizabeth II awarded Berman an MBE for Services to Community Education and Community Arts, examples of which include City Farms, Instant Business Enterprise System (IBES), the Inter-Action Creative Game Method, Fun Art Bus I & II, the Community Media Van, FabLab on Wheels, the Father and Mother Xmas Union and, of course, Inter-Action, the umbrella organization for a range of innovative, creativity-based projects and community training systems. He was Founding Chair (2014) of Rhodes Scholars in Britain (RSiB) and a Trustee. Most recently (2015) he was invited by MIT's Bits and Atoms to establish Fab Foundation UK. A Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar (1962), ED Berman is Inter-Action's founder (1968) and CEO. == Early life and education == ED Berman was born in Lewiston, Maine, on 8 March 1941 to Jack and Ida (née Webber) Berman. He attended Lewiston High School but despite becoming a regional and national debating champion, did not graduate. Instead he accepted the offer of a place at Harvard University at the age of 15, to study Government & Middle Eastern Languages and Literature. He was a resident at Winthrop House and graduated in the Class of 1962. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Exeter College, Oxford University in 1962.() ED was unable to finish his doctorate at Oxford in 1965, due to an unprovoked attack whilst researching in Istanbul, Turkey, which left him with a cranial blood clot, a badly damaged back and given a year to live. Unable to continue this research, ED moved to London. Inter-Action Berman established Inter-Action in London in 1968 to explore new forms of creative and participatory programmes for the Inner City, and find new ways to motivate learning. The work is targeted at disadvantaged families and young people (especially young girls and young women in science and technology), children with learning disabilities and people returning to education or seeking training. It has been described as “the most exciting community education agency in Europe.” Essentially, Inter-Action is involved in probem-solving work of a community development nature. It takes specific challenges and tries to develop practical projects and techniques which can be widely disseminated and used by others throughout the UK and Europe. Inter-Action Trust is the umbrella for Berman's activities, including a series of theatres, at least six theatre companies, community festivals and seasons of plays, making print and radio media accessible to local communities, establishing the first City Farm, the first community architecture service in Europe and numerous other projects. Inter-Action commissioned the first community arts resource centre in Europe which was purpose-built on a derelict Council site in Talacre Rd, West Kentish Town, London, designed by Cedric Price. Inter-Action has influenced the work of numerous other community arts initiatives as well as direct off-shoots in Milton Keynes and Leeds. The Father & Mother Xmas Union (FXU) was set up in 1969 to stage large-scale social and activist events such as protests against the National Front and Selfridges (for using red-leg labour). City Farms: In 1971, Berman negotiated with British Rail to take over numerous tracts (10,000 acres) of land throughout the UK which were unusable for development under modern planning legislation because of their proximity to the railway lines. He established the first City Farm in Britain in Kentish Town, north London, in 1971 (which became a model for City Farms across the country) and then the National Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens which now (2015) includes 1,200 City Farms and Community Gardens throughout the UK. Fun Art Bus: In 1972, to bring theatre and arts into the community, Inter-Action converted a Routemaster bus to create a small theatre on its upper deck, along with a cinema showing short films and slide shows downstairs. The bus was brought back during the 2012 Olympic Games in which Berman was a torchbearer. HMS President: In 1988 the ship HMS President (1918) was purchased by the charity, Inter-Action. It provided a base for young start-up entrepreneurs, and audio-visual studios. The purchase of the ship saved her from scrap, and preserved her for future generations. She has since become a London landmark, marked on street maps. Inter-Action also purchased her sister ship, HMS Chrysanthemum, which was hired by Steven Spielberg for the boat chase sequences shot in 1988 in Tilbury Docks for the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, then laid up in the River Medway until she was scrapped in 1995. Numerous other activities including the establishment of WAC- the Weekend Arts College (now simply WAC), the first Community Media Van, a community print shop including the publishing arm, Inter-Action In-Print, a film company, Infilms, a new centre on HMS President (1918), a free school and a plethora of media and computer projects from the1980s onward; then two more theatre companies: the Old Age Theatre Society (OATS) working in old people’s homes and the British American Repertory Company (BARC), the first joint company approved by both Equity Unions and both countries for non-star actors and stage staff. As well, he has been Chairman of the successful Save Piccadilly Campaign in the 1970s (to stop the high rise office development surrounding the Circus) and the action against JP Morgan to open their blocking of a walkway/cycling path of the Thames Walkway on the Isle of Dogs. He continues to spend part of each year in India, advising on social enterprise projects, mainly with women, and environmental projects, especially water developments. He has worked in Hong Kong, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, South Africa and India as a Director/Trainer as well as advising on developing new social enterprises. In Russia he worked as an Adviser to three State Ministers and in the UK as a non-party-political Special Advisor on Inner City Matters to Cabinet Ministers, Michael Heseltine and Tom King. All of these he did whilst remaining in the Inter-Action Co-operative. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ED Berman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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