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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Before the Mast
The Sea Education Association (SEA) creates an intriguing study-abroad experience by blending an intensive interdisciplinary course load with shipboard lab activities. Drawing most of its students from the physical sciences, SEA begins ...
Literary Arts
Realizing that the ability to appreciate literature nurtures critical thinking skills while enriching life, and that reading competency is an essential component of both social justice and civil society, the ...
Sacred Wind
In February 2007, the New Mexico nonprofit Sacred Wind Communications Community Connect (SWCCC) began to provide computer training and Internet access to Navajo families through the Huerfano Computer Training Center. Visitors who complete ...
Fishing for Students at Splash
I'll be teaching a class at splash in November for my favorite demographic - high school students. If you aren't familiar with splash:
One weekend in November, over one thousand ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome.
Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively ...
Arboreal Installations
In the early 1980s, Martin Orram imagined a project that would help the public recapture a sense of the wonder and poetry of nature. The original vision grew to ...
Journey to the West
Shaun Huston, professor of Geography and Film Studies at Western Oregon University, created Visualizing the West to provide a forum for artists and scholars ...
Knowledge Networks
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will hold a conference in Bangkok at the end of this month to explore the role of information ...
Playing at Peace
Tamar Meshulam's cooperative game Master Peace asks players to complete a circuit around a felt board by developing a collaborative story reflecting a noncompetitive, creative system of personal interaction. Moving ...