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Constructivism, Design, Cybernetics: Radical, Social, 2nd Order

By Mark Enslin The School for Designing a Society co-hosted the 2007 meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics, from March 30th to April 1st. Unlike its other professional meetings, which typically are hosted at universities or chain hotels, this

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Posted in Cybernetics, Project Report, Video

Rob Scott on Valley Free Radio in Northampton, MA

Beyond Available Alternatives: An Interview with Rob Scott By Matt Dineen “What are you for?” Variations of that question were constantly hurled at the early global justice movement that erupted, in the U.S. at least, in Seattle during the actions

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Posted in Language

World Social Forum and Independent Media in Nairobi, Kenya

by Danielle Chynoweth In January, I joined 30 independent journalists from Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya met for 4 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya with a handful of folks from Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Prometheus Radio Project in Philadelphia, and

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Posted in Activism

Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture

January 10, 2007 by Mark Enslin I am just finishing a 4-week residency at a city-funded hothouse of projects called the Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture, or Haja (Korean for “let’s do it”) Center. It was begun by feminist

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Posted in Project Report

Fall 2006 Semester comes to a close

The final days of the semester included a night of performances of original theater compositions by students, a collaboratively written book about meeting human needs, and a lengthy discussion of “what’s nextest”. Exerpt from Alternative Necessities: Alternative necessities… why? The

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Posted in Project Report, Video

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