Monthly Archives: November 2007

Retreat to the Gesundheit Institute

by Beth Simpson During the week normally reserved for Thanksgiving, Maggie Scott the new “Land Mama” at the Gesundheit land invited students from the School for Designing a Society to visit West Virginia for a retreat. Here’s a brief report … Continue reading

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Scuola per Disegnare Progettare una Societa… in Pruno, Italy

This is a new experiment for us and we are delighted to do it. We (Susan, Mark, Rob, Danielle, Jeff, Bob) have traveled from Urbana to Pruno, Italy to offer a one week version of the School for Designing a … 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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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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