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Borderlands
Dozens of disposable cameras--each with a flash and enough film for twenty-seven pictures--became the tools the Border Film Project used to explore life along the US-Mexico border and the ...
Generational Memory
The Evander Childs High School Mural Project illustrates the changing nature of social memory and the ways in which art can promote community growth and public dialogue. In ...
Reconstructing Perspective
An experimental program at Antietam National Battlefield used contemporary sketches and photos, as well as modern remote sensing technology and design software, to study elements of the site. ...
Documenting Change
Working closely with grassroots organizations, the Panos Institute's Oral Testimony Programme has created a website that explores the effects of development in rural mountain areas. The Mountain Voices site transcribes oral histories from ...
Day Trips show Maps as Art and Interface
Bugaboo, a Dutch stroller company, recently added a complimentary site focused on 'Day Trips'. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, a day trip is a little ...
Web 2.0 Building Blocks
One of the interesting things we attempt to think about at Creative Synthesis is how the tools for pursuing artistic, social and scientific pursuits continue to evolve. The complexity of ...
Building Community: Featured Experimenters
We've been running the experiment for a little while now (a little over two weeks) and as always, we've gotten a ton of data. More interesting then that though are ...
[graph-watch] Personal Pie
Contrary to what that pretentious mac guy will tell you, you can in fact represent your life in pie charts. Craig Robinson does so quite effectively.
Also:
Kathy Sierra showcases ...
Notes from the recycling center (week one)
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here ...
What is the school of tomorrow?
If past lessons teach us anything, it probably is pretty hard to imagine. Still, there are reasonable efforts to create a dialogue about what it might look like.
From School ...
Barcamp Boston
Barcamp Boston is this weekend (all day saturday and until 5:30 on sunday). I'll try to stop by for some of the time - it is conveniently adjacent. The only ...
Coffee: Disrupting Social Order Since 1511
Yesterday Calestous Juma spoke to the OLPC class about "social responses to radical technologies".
He's a very interesting and engaging speaker who has been thinking a lot about the integration ...