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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: Composition
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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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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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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“As If” Ensemble of Urbana
By Anna Hochhalter The As If Ensemble of Urbana (AIEoU) was started by School for Designing a Society students and teachers in Fall 2007. In the AIEOU we play Klezmer/Balkan/a Capella/circular/undescribed works. You might find us playing several of the … Continue reading
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Ecological Action
By Kyra Shaughnessy Sprouting from a shared desire to increase our freedom from the behemoth of industrial agriculture, a group of recent SDaS students and other members of the Urbana-Champaign community have been meeting weekly to share seeds and knowledge … Continue reading
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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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Composing Utopia with Words: Articipatory Music and other weird things
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 … Continue reading
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Graphics by Herbert Brün on exhibit at the University of Illinois
An opening reception, to mark an exhibit of graphics by Herbert Brün, was held in the library at the School of Music at the University of Illinois on May 3, 2007. Herbert taught in the Music Department at the University … Continue reading
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