Friday, August 04, 2006
Self-Guided Learning and Open Space Technology
Free Activism Course at University of Ottawa
EList, July 17, 2006 (GoodWork) – A New Activism Course will be offered this Fall at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON. The course is open to all with no fees. Students will not receive university credit for the course. The creation of the course follows the great success of an experimental activism course last fall among students and community members (http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=8094). Possible themes of the course (to be decided by students) include: radical (i.e., at the root) analysis of society and power structures, activism movements and non-corporate cultures; critical examinations of the university and science as institutions that serve power; civil society, resistance and defiance, activism in the workplace; foreign policy, globalization, democracy, environment, social justice, minority rights, first nations rights; and personal and community benefits of activism. If you would like to attend even one class or to receive registration information and speaker announcements, please join the fall 2006 course e-mail list by contacting dgr@physics.uottawa.ca.
Free Activism Course at University of Ottawa
EList, July 17, 2006 (GoodWork) – A New Activism Course will be offered this Fall at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON. The course is open to all with no fees. Students will not receive university credit for the course. The creation of the course follows the great success of an experimental activism course last fall among students and community members (http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=8094). Possible themes of the course (to be decided by students) include: radical (i.e., at the root) analysis of society and power structures, activism movements and non-corporate cultures; critical examinations of the university and science as institutions that serve power; civil society, resistance and defiance, activism in the workplace; foreign policy, globalization, democracy, environment, social justice, minority rights, first nations rights; and personal and community benefits of activism. If you would like to attend even one class or to receive registration information and speaker announcements, please join the fall 2006 course e-mail list by contacting dgr@physics.uottawa.ca.
Self-Reliance / Urban Alternatives
Redefining American Beauty, by the Yard
LAKEWOOD, CA, July 13, 2006 (New York Times, Patricia Leigh Brown) – Set among dense pattypan squash plants, cornstalks, and crimson sweet watermelons, a placard reads "The empty front lawn requiring mowing, watering and weeding previously on this location has been removed." The sign is a not-so-subtle bit of propaganda proclaiming the second and most recent installment of Edible Estates, an experimental project by Fritz Haeg, a 37-year-old Los Angeles architect. The project is part of a nascent "delawning" movement concerned with replacing lawns around the country with native plants, from prairie grasses in suburban Chicago to cactus gardens in Tucson. As Mr. Haeg put it, "It's about shifting ideas of what's beautiful, and what happens on that square of land between the public street and the private house. It's about social engagement. I wanted to get away from the idea of home as an obsessive isolating cocoon."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071406EC.shtml
Redefining American Beauty, by the Yard
LAKEWOOD, CA, July 13, 2006 (New York Times, Patricia Leigh Brown) – Set among dense pattypan squash plants, cornstalks, and crimson sweet watermelons, a placard reads "The empty front lawn requiring mowing, watering and weeding previously on this location has been removed." The sign is a not-so-subtle bit of propaganda proclaiming the second and most recent installment of Edible Estates, an experimental project by Fritz Haeg, a 37-year-old Los Angeles architect. The project is part of a nascent "delawning" movement concerned with replacing lawns around the country with native plants, from prairie grasses in suburban Chicago to cactus gardens in Tucson. As Mr. Haeg put it, "It's about shifting ideas of what's beautiful, and what happens on that square of land between the public street and the private house. It's about social engagement. I wanted to get away from the idea of home as an obsessive isolating cocoon."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071406EC.shtml
