“A Summer Composition” by Koushalya Video -WMV | Video -QT This is only the first 3 minutes of a 90 minute video that was put together by one of the participants in the Summer School for Designing a Society at…
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Composing Utopia with Words: Articipatory Music and other weird things
Here‘s a story about “articipatory music” at the World Beyond Capitalism conference that was conceptualized at the 2006 Summer School by Michael Gaiuranos. Hat tip to T for sending us the story, published in the Puget Sound’s Weekly Volcano. An…
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Posted in Composition, Language
Protest at Champaign City Council
Health Care System Design Intensive
September October 11-14, 2007 Click for full size version (1MB). The School for Designing a Society joined with the Gesundheit Institute to host the third annual Health Care System Design Intensive, at the Independent Media Center in Urbana, IL. More…
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Posted in Project Report
Fall ’07 Semester in Action
A dozen new faces have arrived in Urbana, IL to participate in the Fall 2007 Semester, with a few returning friends and a core of instructors bringing us to a 20-person-strong group — a force to be reckoned with. The…
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Posted in Project Report
Matriztic Institute in Santiago de Chile
By Rob Scott I first encountered the work of Humberto Maturana at the School for Designing a Society, where his ideas about neurophysiology and cognition have been foundational. It was a great priviledge for me to attend a one-week course…
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Posted in Cybernetics
Summer School Report
We enveloped ourselves in a potpourri of unusual offerings for the summer school’s point of departure. We’ve been at the Gesundheit Institute, where costume activist “Madd Maggs” literally wrapped us in clown pants and tie dyes throughout the month —…
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Posted in Project Report
Summer School in Session
Summer School for Designing a Society 2007 is rolling, and here are some of the things that may be reported (without explanation) for all the “you”s out there. During the first week, we discussed our personal “courts of criteria” —…
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Posted in Project Report
New Book from Taylor Sparrow
Graphics by Herbert Brün on exhibit at the University of Illinois
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