Things by Shae Davidson
Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
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Personal Space
Tania Lopez Winkler and Marcos Lutyens's Second Skin brings visual and experiential elements to two ideas that had already added flair to philosophical explorations of identity: a spatial approach ...
Fair Tracing
Emerging under the auspices of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the proposed Fair Tracing Project would increase commercial transparency by ...
Digital Charity
Public broadcasting system WOSU has started encouraging its Columbus, Ohio, supporters to donate coupons for digital television converters. Working with the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging ...
Quantifying Biodiversity
The field of Biodiversity Economics promotes conservation and sustainable development through pragmatic policy-level research that gives environmental change a more immediate, quantifiable, feel. By exploring the financial effects of ...
Spatial Memory
Originally developed to provide a free, open source map to the public, OpenStreetMapoptical communications allows users to annotate locations in a way that promises to incorporate local landscape, ...
The Sound of Stone
Archaeologist and artist Steven Waller has spent the past two decades exploring a multisensory explanation for the location and design of Neolithic and Paleolithic art. Looking beyond visual ...
Open Forum on Research
The American Historical Association created the Archives Wiki as a clearinghouse for information on the process of archival research and details about individual collections. The initial entries cover ...
Conservation Tees
In 2007, fashion designer Beth Doane and graphic designer Bethany Armstrong merged their interests in human rights, biodiversity, and sustainable economic development to create the Rain Tee Collection for ...
The Zone
The vision of the nonprofit group Zones of Peace International Foundation (ZOPIF) merges conflict-resolution, community-building, and preservation of cultural and historic sites. ZOPIF grew from a recognition of the ...
Site-Specific Art
A collaborative effort of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rare, and the University of California, Human/Nature pairs environmental artists ...
Indigenous Knowledge
Working in conjunction with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, the educational and cultural resources collective the Alaskan Native Knowledge Network (ANKN) helps the ...
The Art and Science of Land
Inspired in part by the work or activist and geographer Trevor Paglen, the art and curatorial collective Independent Curators International (iCI) invited visual artists, writers, installation artists, and geographers ...
In Transition
The Transition Towns WIKI provides an intellectual commons where communities can explore and share plans for responding to energy availability (particularly oil) and climate change. The site allows localities ...
Conservation RAVE
The International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) uses images to coordinate environmental education, cultural preservation, and political and social activism. To these ends, the group works to support a ...