by AnAndR At the House Concerturtle in March, AnAndR presented their first draft of a toy piano and banjo piece entitled, “Playing (with) Policy”. The piece explores a city ordinance on Loud and Raucous Noise. Video -WMV | Video -QT
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Blogging from the Health Care Design Intensive
The Health Care Design Intensive is ongoing at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore and Mark and Danielle have posted some descriptions on a blog here.
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La Escuela para diseñar una Sociedad
Many thanks are due for the new translations of the website. The Spanish is by Andres Lizcano who encountered the School in Italy; the German is by Thomas Fischer came as composer-in-residence from Hong Kong last fall. The Italian is…
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Fall 2008 Semester is over
The School for Designing a Society Fall Semester 2008 culminated in a night of performances and shared projects at the La Casa house where several participants have been residing.The theme/title was “Choose your own…” borrowing from the stucture of “choose…
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Eduacare al Desiderio 2008 — Re(x)sistance
Our Italian comrades Ginevra Sanguigno, Patrizia Mainardi, and Cristina Finotti organized a one week course entitled “Re(x)sistance” — making a play on words where one could read “resistance” or “re-exisistance”. Amongst the snow-capped mountains of Pruno di Stazzema, in the…
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Generalizations about the Fall 2008 Semester
by Toney the Pomeranian/Lhasa-Apsa mix. The haitus in blogging on the general state of the School for Designing a Society has been a product of more tangible benefits of life with actual humans. Here are some things that have been…
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Urbana-Champaign Udderbot Marching Choir (UCUMC)
by Jacob Barton I want: A group of more than 10 people playing udderbot (and its relatives), as an ensemble that meets regularly in Urbana. A group of people, of various ages, who rehearse and become able to (very tightly)…
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Health Care System Design Intensive
by Mark Enslin Even if you don’t have health care, you have a health care system. And if your health care system is not providing health care for those who need it, or for you in the way you’d like,…
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Summer School 2008 at the Gesundheit Institute
by Ostrananie and the Xatets How can a human describe a three-week period of indescribable stuff being tried all the time and the weird results of that? At the Summer School for Designing a Society… We cleaned the bathrooms with…
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