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Test

Posted on August 27, 2014 by xenjacob

This is a test of the blog.

Posted in Activism, Composition, Cybernetics, Language, Performance

10 to 4

Posted on January 26, 2011 by meadow

School for Designing a Society 10 to 4 by Susan Parenti 10 to 4 is an acoustic play which twists shards of political activism and thought’s aging into the brain of language. The play posits a “language brain”: given that…

Posted in Activism, Composition, Cybernetics, Language, Performance

The Nobel Peace Prize for Not Confusing People: Reflections on the 2010 Health Care Intensive

Posted on July 2, 2010 by admin

by Susan Parenti 3pm, May 27, Thursday in Olympia, Washington—Cool, rainy weather, deserted streets… Suddenly the friendly Olympia Community Center is swamped with a group that will swell into 122 people over the next three days—participants in the 2010 Thinking…

Posted in Activism, Language, Project Report

Da Crucial Artz

Posted on June 9, 2009 by admin — No Comments ↓

by Rob Scott I spent a day taping the wierdo champion Chu-uck D as he provided a spanarchist perspective on our little town of Urbana-Champaign. Over the course of the day, several locals received an exposition of da (not the)…

Posted in Activism, Language, Project Report

Blogging from the Health Care Design Intensive

Posted on February 5, 2009 by admin

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.

Posted in Activism, Project Report

Ecological Action

Posted on April 9, 2008 by admin

By Kyra Shaughnessy Sprouting from a shared desire to increase our freedom from the behemoth of industrial agriculture, a group of recent SDaS students and other members of the Urbana-Champaign community have been meeting weekly to share seeds and knowledge…

Posted in Activism, Composition

Leap Day House Concert

Posted on February 29, 2008 by admin

by Jacob Barton On Leap Day 2008, recent SDaS students presented a House Concert in the living room of La Casa Grande Colectiva, a co-op house in historic East Urbana. The offerings were variegated: a science fiction therapy scene, an…

Posted in Activism, Composition, Cybernetics, Language, Performance, Video

Protest at Champaign City Council

Posted on October 16, 2007 by admin

Video -WMV | Video -QT | Video -JavaThe City Council of Champaign, IL voted last night 6-3 to remove Human Rights protections for Section 8 Housing Voucher recipients. Under the previous ordinance, it would have been considered an illegal act…

Posted in Activism, Performance, Video

New Book from Taylor Sparrow

Posted on May 25, 2007 by admin

Click for larger view Mini Book Review by Rob ScottOne of our former students, who is also a tireless organizer, has now published his first full-length book: a collection of stories from his recent years studying history, travelling, organizing resistence,…

Posted in Activism, Language

World Social Forum and Independent Media in Nairobi, Kenya

Posted on February 1, 2007 by admin

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…

Posted in Activism

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