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Regenerative Development

Posted on May 6th by Shae Davidson.
Sante Fe-based planning and design consults the Regenesis Group approach sustainable development in a way that fully integrates place into the processes of restoration, growth, and ecologically-friendly use.  Rather than viewing ...
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Collaborative Water Solutions

Posted on April 30th by Shae Davidson.
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 ...
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Something Old, Something New on Hollywood Boulevard

Posted on April 18th by Shae Davidson.
As a move to counter the miasma of gentrification and celebrate the street's blended heritage--incorporating waves of migration and development, pop culture pilgrimage with lived urban experience--the Los Angeles Forum for ...

New to the Collaborative

Posted on March 6th by paulkreiter.
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 ...
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Looking for What’s Best in Life

Posted on February 20th by Shae Davidson.
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
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Another Use for Jazz

Posted on February 7th by Shae Davidson.
Years ago, planner Lawrence Halprin experimented with using musical scores and choreographic notation (as well as the hexagrams from the I Ching) to create a common language for artists, designers, ...
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Concerning the Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox

Posted on February 4th by Matthew Hockenberry.
It is rare that you get to see such a huge list of complex philosophical problems reduced to a six page comic, but Saint Gasoline has somehow accomplished it in his ...