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- Accessible Horizon Activist film production with Koushalya
- Change of State Performance Project Careen across the dance-theatre spectrum, asking into today’s looming socio-political issues
- Clown One Italia Humanitarian Clowning from Italy to the World
- Ecological Construction Laboratory Passive Architecture Project in Urbana, IL
- Gesundheit Institute Revolutionary Health Care
- Herbert Brün Society Promoting the work of Herbert Brün
- Just Foreign Policy Achieving a just foreign policy based on cooperation, law, and diplomacy
- Liberation Ecology Project Linking Social Justice and Ecological Health
- Nonsense Company Experimental Theater and Music
- Pearl Heather Forge “Press” texts: DESIRE, CYBERNETICS, SOCIAL DESIGN, ACTIVISM
- PolyProject Wiki started by School for Designing a Society students
- Prince Myshkins Political satire on the outskirts of folk music
- Social Design Site An online network that likes the School for Designing a Society
- Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Non-corporate citizen-produced news media in Urbana-Champaign, IL
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The Nobel Peace Prize for Not Confusing People: Reflections on the 2010 Health Care Intensive
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 … Continue reading
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An Oddmusic Instrument Garden
by Jacob Barton Originally a composer only of music, I have in the last decade become interested in composing not only music, but also social contexts for music, so that music be an input to society (not only an output). … Continue reading
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House Theater: The Truth About Injustice Always Sounds OutRageous
House Theater Dec. 10, 11, 12, 2009: “The Truth about Injustice Always Sounds OutRageous” Sounds outrageous and outrageous sounds, brought to you by House Theater and UC-ODDMUSIC. We invite you to an hour and a half “Letter to the Editor” … Continue reading
Up Close, No One is Normal
by Danielle Chynoweth Thanksgiving, November 26, 2009 We are exploring a pedagogy of desire for four days in a smoggy corner of Milan. Upon arrival at the location where we will sleep, eat, and teach, we enter a portal emblazoned … Continue reading
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From the Archive: City Imaginings
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 … Continue reading
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New Song on Universal Health Care
Listen: My Pre-Existing Condition was No Health Care Access ( source | lyrics ) Jacob – “MC Utterbot” and udderbot Andrew – “Professor Heathwaite” and 23-tone electric guitar Rob – “Hello” and drums source| lyrics
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CompAct Session
text by Melanie Meltzer and Jacob Barton film by Rob Scott How can activism and music composition be resistence AND a contribution? When do either make a difference to society? When is activism new? When is music new? Composition of … Continue reading
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Resisting Berlusconi’s Education Reforms in Italy
by Danielle Chynoweth Genoa rises up from the sea, a chaotic surface of bricks and stone and tangled streets holding several thousand years of memory in the arc of its harbor. Our first stop is AutAut – a squatted space … Continue reading
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Da Crucial Artz
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) … Continue reading
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Trash Balls
For six months, the school’s office has not sent any garbage to landfills. Organic waste is composted, glass/paper/plastic are recycled, but everything else is now turned into “trash balls”. Trash is shredded, wrapped in plastic bags, then encapsulated in cloth, … Continue reading
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