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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…

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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

From the Archive: City Imaginings

Posted on October 17, 2009 by admin

City Imagining: an idea, implemented/able on the scale of a city which: offers interesting solutions to common problems increases the freedom of city residents, decreases power differences, and/or helps residents participate in the decisions which affect their lives. This booklet was compiled…

Posted in 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

Playing (with) Policy

Posted on March 8, 2009 by admin

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

Posted in Composition, Language, Performance, Video

La Escuela para diseñar una Sociedad

Posted on January 31, 2009 by admin

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…

Posted in Language

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

Composing Utopia with Words: Articipatory Music and other weird things

Posted on November 13, 2007 by admin

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…

Posted in Composition, Language

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

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