School for Designing a Society
Upcoming Sessions
Educare al Desiderio in Pruno, Italy
November 2008
November 24 - November 29, 2008 -- see Clown One Italia Onlus to register
A seminar offered in Italian and English, to address people who resist homologation, consumerism, mass media trivialization, discrimination and violence in order to design and create new systems and change our daily patterns of action. Participants will be invited to compose and use language paying attention to how we speak and how language speaks us and to address the powerful dynamics of intentions and their performance.
Composers Summit meets an Activist Summit
July 11-16, 2009
(Arrival date is July 10th, departure is July 17th)
Hosted at the Gesundheit Institute. Description forthcoming...
Tuition: $600. We are working on raising a few scholarships for those with limited financial resources.
Read about the 2008 Summer School at the Gesundheit Institute.
School for Designing a Society
Fall Semester 2009
September 8 - December 11, 2009
The Fall Semester 2009 will be hosted at the Independent Media Center in Urbana, Illinois. Located downtown, this space is shared by a radio station, a post office, an artists' collective, and other social organizations. In addition to designing a society, this Fall Semester includes a Political Economy class with Michael Brun, and a half-dozen guests-in-residence.
Tuition: $3500. We have a sliding scale that we use for participants with limited financial resources.
School for Designing a Society
Spring Semester 2010
January 25 - April 30, 2009
Continuing education in Social Design, the Spring Semester has a stronger emphasis on independent projects. The Fall Semester is designed by a group of school organizers, by the end of the fall the Spring Semester will be organized by a group of designers. Students may not enroll in the Spring Semester without prior enrollment in the School for Designing a Society. Some projects of previous years have focused on permaculture gardens, experimental social living, theater compositions, media production...
Tuition: free for returning students.
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