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Playing (with) Policy

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

Educare al Desiderio 2008!!

Posted in Project Report, Video

Leap Day House Concert

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

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

New Book from Seung Yong Kim

Last year, our friend/student Seung Yong said he was going to travel the world after his semester at the School for Designing a Society, and that he would wear a t-shirt in every setting, with the words “it can be

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Posted in Video

New Video about the School

“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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Posted in Video

Protest at Champaign City Council

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

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Posted in Activism, Performance, Video

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

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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