Monday, September 21, 2015

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] International Affairs and Political Science is an Emerging Trend in art science ?

Hello John,

This sounds interesting, indeed. My name is Ulrich Gehmann, having worked in
management and engaged in Ideal City/Utopia ventures. Inter alias, we
presented World Mountain Machine in Estonia last year (where Soleri was a
part of), and at next year's Biennale in Venice. now, In our working group,
we are concerned with ideal spaces in wider sense, and now, are making a
seminar on managed spaces: www.idealspaces.org
I would be pleased if we can establish contact

Best regards
Ulrich

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> Do readers have other projects that belong in this list ?

I'm participating in a complete revamp of a hybrid private (non-profit)
education initiative in regenerative design -- at the Ecosa Institute here
in the mountains of central Arizona http://ecosa/org -- it's a hands-on,
applied,
(*not* theoretical!) design/art/systems/architecture/ecology program. We
recently got a $4mil gift for the construction of a major (fully off-grid!)
learning center for this new resident program that will include an
artist-in-residence program, international guests, and numerous learning
possibilities from short workshops to two annual 16-week immersive
certificate programs in regenerative design. We'll be starting up the new
*improved* program in the fall of 2016. The Institute is about 15 years old,
and was founded by the British architect Tony Brown who worked with Paolo
Soleri.

As a (geophysical) engineer and media artist, I'm part of the teaching team
and will cover holistic systems thinking aspects as well as cross-over
technology/art/culture/media/techno-social issues ... As an experienced
educator, I'll be facilitating the collaborative/dialogue approach (as
inspired by Martin Buber, David Bohm, and Paolo Friere among others!). If
anyone has questions, let me know!

One of the reasons I left 'regular' US academia was a frustration with the
miserable economics of adjunct teaching (talk about an unsustainable
system!!) and a lack of opportunities for true transdisciplinary
collaboration outside of very traditional 'inside' opportunities for
tenured/tenure-track research faculty. I was teaching in a
technology-arts-media program at CU-Boulder (the TAM program) within the
Atlas Institute -- an interesting program, but I found the university
overall to be suffering the maisma of administrative-heavy bureaucracy. Too
much talk and political position-taking and not enough radical learning
happening.

Cheers,
John



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