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Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation of art ...
Driving East
The ideal of the open road has served as a way to examine contemporary life and the nature of change and growth. Some have taken this fascination with movement and ...
Cafe Utopia
The BeGood Cafe, founded in Tokyo in 1999, continues the long association between hot beverages and positive social change. Created to provide an open forum for exploring issues related to the environment and ...
Reconstruction
Before starting a PhD program I worked for a couple of years as a museum director at a site dedicated to river life, agriculture, and the socio-political world of the mid nineteenth ...
Storysharing
The Digital Clubhouse Network grew out of a NASA-sponsored project exploring ways in which digital technology can be used to strengthen communities. The nonprofit group relies on two community incubators--one in ...
New to the Collaborative
Greetings all, I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Originally from outside Chicago, I came to the east coast first to work at Brown University, and then to pursue Graduate Studies ...
Greening the GI Bill
Green Collar Vets connects veterans with job training and employment opportunities related to sustainable development and alternative energy. The group encourages participants to use GI Bill funding to enroll in vocational ...
Looking for What’s Best in Life
At the beginning of the year, the Kids Philosophy Slam asked students to consider if global warming posed "the greatest challenge facing humankind" as part of its annual competition. Emerging from the
Remembering Uganda
The nonprofit group Creative Visions provides socially-conscious artists and designers with funding, technical support, and networking. Two of the group's projects explore the experiences of Ugandans during the war against the
Rights Videos
Responding to the ability of film to capture the experiences of abuse survivors and the videotaped beating of Rodney King in the early 1990s, musician Peter Gabriel created WITNESS to ...
Knowledge Infrastructure
While vacationing in Nepal in 1998, "overworked Microsoft executive" John Wood had the opportunity to visit a small rural school. Disturbed by the lack of books in the school's library, Wood emailed ...
Green Cross
Inspired by ideas set forth by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International hopes that a paradigm shift in social attitudes and values will lead to a more sustainable and peaceful global community. The group ...
Renaissance Panel: The Roles of Creative Synthesis in Innovation
I'm pleased to announce that Leonardo Bonanni and I are organizing a panel this year at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy (on Monday, April 7th). CHI's theme this year ...
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Hearth and Home
Three innovative programs use cooking technology as a tool for making education and greener technology more widely available. While all three work to make food preparation more efficiently, each sees development in ...
Photography Across the Curriculum
In the late 1980s, Duke University's Center for Documentary Studiescoordinated a short photography workshop for local public schools. Positive response from teachers, students, and administrators to Wendy Ewald's two-week program led ...