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Bruce Mau: From Innovative Graphic Designer to World-Class Conceptualist - Chicago magazine - June 2010 - Chicago (www.chicagomag.com)Bruce Mau has gone from innovative graphic designer to world-class conceptualist, producing books and museum shows, collaborating with star architects, and rethinking and revamping education. Several years ago, the Canadian native moved to Chicago, where he’s been embraced by the city’s movers and shakers (including Mayor Daley) and where he now pushes his empire toward its modest goal: using design to change the world
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2.Overriding context of wind power controversy is climate change Gary Fuhrman (www.manitoulin.ca)
The great Manitoulin wind farm debate seems to be winding down, but the truly crucial issue behind that whole debate is still very much with us. It's a global issue, which may explain why it has attracted very little attention in the local debate.
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A garden block proposal | Sustainable Cities Collective (sustainablecitiescollective.com)Briefly, the idea is that walkable neighborhoods could be intentionally structured so that food production is integrated into the physical form and the lifestyle of the inhabitants. In other words, it is a synthesis between urban and rural.
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The Society of the Spectacle (en.wikipedia.org)The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) is a work of philosophy and critical theory by Situationist and Marxist theorist, Guy Debord. It was first published in 1967 in France.
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5.Our outboard brains (kottke.org)
Scott Adams muses on how humans store information in much of what we build and make: businesses, flower gardens, music.
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Smart City Radio :: Home (www.smartcityradio.com)Smart City is a weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities
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7.Musagetes Cafés Greater Sudbury Café (September 2010) (www.musagetes.ca)
Greater Sudbury is a post-industrial city transitioning towards a strengthened knowledge economy that is deeply rooted in the arts, innovation and creativity.
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The Shadow over Israel - Margaret Atwood (www.haaretz.com)Until Palestine has its own 'legitimized' state within its internationally recognized borders, the Shadow will remain.
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Bruce Mau Lecture (bmdesign.tumblr.com)Visionary and world-leading innovator Bruce Mau is participating in the visioning process to re-imagine the future of Liverpool.
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Water tower could house theme park or aquarium: reader - Ray Laporte (www.northernlife.ca)There are several reasons to spare the water tower the wrecking ball.There are also many social problems that our community is dealing with now: the strike, poverty issues, city infrastructure and others. Why would a community be concerned over an unused water tower?
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Koyaanisqatsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)Koyaanisqatsi (English pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪ.ɑːnɪsˈkɑːtsiː/ KOY-ah-nis-KAHT-see), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
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Manuals for Civilization: Time Capsules and Doomsday Books (www.worldchanging.com)One of the ways people respond to stories about climate change, peak oil, the idea of a coming Apocalypse (or even the current recession) is to conclude that civilization as we know it is going to collapse, and in the near future
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Minimum.... or Maximum Cities? - The Conference (www.min-max-cities.org)What is the future for cities? Are they expanding at an ever-increasing rate or are they being abandoned and shrinking into oblivion? Are cities polluted, overcrowded and anonymous, or are they dynamic centres of innovation and culture? Are they sociable or anti-social?
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14.Northern leaders take part in TVO AgendaCamp - Timmins Times (www.timminstimes.com)
The AgendaCamp exercise on Sunday was the forerunner to the live broadcast from the TH&VS auditorium Monday night for the TVO flagship current affairs program known as The Agenda. It is hosted by well-known broadcaster Steve Paikin, who took part in Sunday's workshop as an observer
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Top 10 Amazing Facts About Dreams - Listverse (listverse.com)This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember)
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Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss
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17.www.theory.org (www.theory.org.uk)
David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.
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Must View: Fake. You Are Not Dead, A Guide To Modern Living. (www.fakeproject.com)Deceptive times demand devious critiques. You Are Not Dead was born out of fraughtful observations of the state of our States and the repetitive, empty monotony of consumer culture and electronic music.
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Must View : Gaming social change (www.urgentevoke.com)EVOKE is a ten-week crash course in changing the world. It is free to play and open to anyone, anywhere. The goal of the social network game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems.
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Gangs in Sudbury? (scottneigh.blogspot.com)This was a poster for a local police-organized community forum on gangs, as part of a province-wide initiative to prevent gangs from spreading to rural, remote, and northern communities.
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Innovation, community engagement key to success: consultant (www.northernlife.ca)Cities like Greater Sudbury can deal with both their economic and environmental problems by thinking differently and involving their residents in solutions, Jeb Brugman said.
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The artistic collaborative Green Island team -- consisting of Imamura Yuichiro, Imakawa and Taguchi Ryo -- are keeping their fingers crossed that urban developers sit up and take notice of their digital landscape transformations...and maybe even go as far as to make them a reality.
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Science plus Art to Change the World By Bruce Mau (www.cbc.ca)I believe in science and art and the practice of design that brings them together to change the world.
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BEFORE I DIE I WANT TO... The Polaroid Project (beforeidieiwantto.org):: An international community exploring what it means to live life to the fullest
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Time to Deliver: No Turning Back, Part I | OurFuture.org (www.ourfuture.org)the two dominant scenarios about the American future that progressives seem to be wrestling with right now. These two scenarios might be described as:
1) Permanent Decline -2) Reinvented Greatness
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