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- Accessible Horizon Activist film production with Koushalya
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- 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: Cybernetics
Cybernetics Conference in Urbana
by elizaBeth Simpson Larry Richards refers to Cybernetics as “a way of thinking about ways of thinking, of which it is one”. During May 11-14, the 2008 American Society for Cybernetics Conference was hosted in Urbana, Illinois. The theme was … 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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Matriztic Institute in Santiago de Chile
By Rob Scott I first encountered the work of Humberto Maturana at the School for Designing a Society, where his ideas about neurophysiology and cognition have been foundational. It was a great priviledge for me to attend a one-week course … 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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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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