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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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Category Archives: Video
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
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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