Strange Culture at the Designing Safe Living conference

Next month during the Designing Safe Living conference in Lancaster, director Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s film about the artist Steve Kurtz called ‘Strange Culture’ will be screened on Friday, July 11th. Lynn will then be giving an interview live on Second Life after the screening.
Strange Culture examines the case of artist and professor Steve [...]

Eco-Cardboard coffins and Natural burial sites

Eco coffins are made from environmentally sound plain cardboard (they can be customised too) to cater for a  non wasteful funeral and your last dying wish.

Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, eco burial sites are popping up all over Australia. Relatives and friends will require a satellite navigation device to find graves [...]

Dilbert and surveillance in the workplace

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES __THE FATE INSTITUTE

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES __TOWER HAMLETS NUCLEAR TRUST

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES __INSTITUTE for ETHICAL LIVING

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES __ARK INC

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES __EXTREME GREEN GUERILLAS

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES: ___LA BOUCHERIE

La Boucherie’s most popular dish: The MRI steak.

The Chef at La Boucherie select the most beautiful anatomy from the original animal with which to work.

An image showing the process of production. A mould is made and different meat cultures sampled from various location on the master animal are grown inside, to form MRI steak.

An example [...]

Workshop 4: Tower Hamlets Freestate CASE STUDIES __BIOPHILIA CLINIC

Ghost Bikes

Just 5 minutes from where I live is a ghost bike: a painted white bicycle that has been locked to a fence to act as a memorial to a recent bike fatality in the area. I ride past it every day and every time I see it I am extremely aware of how easy [...]

links for 2008-06-04

hope in shadows
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Hope in Shadows
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Pivot Legal Society
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