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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: Language
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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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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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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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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La Escuela para diseñar una Sociedad
Many thanks are due for the new translations of the website. The Spanish is by Andres Lizcano who encountered the School in Italy; the German is by Thomas Fischer came as composer-in-residence from Hong Kong last fall. The Italian is … 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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New Book from Taylor Sparrow
Click for larger view Mini Book Review by Rob ScottOne of our former students, who is also a tireless organizer, has now published his first full-length book: a collection of stories from his recent years studying history, travelling, organizing resistence, … 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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Rob Scott on Valley Free Radio in Northampton, MA
Beyond Available Alternatives: An Interview with Rob Scott By Matt Dineen “What are you for?” Variations of that question were constantly hurled at the early global justice movement that erupted, in the U.S. at least, in Seattle during the actions … Continue reading
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