Greece is historically unique. It is Europe. And Balkans. And East. And West. A territory that keeps shifting its borders in all directions – this over the past 2500 years. And currently it seems to be nowhere. Here is a country with a history that has formed the histories of other nations and that has been reformed by...
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The most critical aspect of the Hothouse is not what happens at it but what occurs after it’s over.
Based on the continuation and advancement of the project of institutional change in design education introduced at the Brisbane HotHouse 2011 an international invitation was sent out for the Paris HotHouse 2012. The event was...
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The Odessey is growing, the latest addition to the sight is a Project Pool. The concept of the pool is to build a repository of redirective projects available to be appropriated by any design educator anywhere to pitch at any level. Redirective projects are those aimed at ‘thinking otherwise’ so as to prompt designing...
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Zoontechnica is an online journal that has grown from the Design Futures program at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Zoontechnica provides a platform for the presentation of adventurous and potentially confrontational ideas that rethink what the current model of design is and does. One of the interesting aspects...
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Institutional Change & Design Leadership: Breaking Into, Up and Out
Hothouse Two: Paris 10th – 13th July 2012
Following the first design leadership Hothouse in Brisbane in July 2011, Hothouse Two will set out to further advance the project of innovation and institutional change in design education. It will do so in the...
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