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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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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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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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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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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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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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