Studio at the Edge of the World Learning Event 2017: A Room Without a View & the Camps (Jan 2017, Launceston Tasmania)

Dates: 2-22 January 2017 Location: University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania Website: The Studio at the Edge of the World Deadline for ex...

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Intl Congress on the Ecology of Care (Nov 2016, Copenhagen Denmark)

Dates: 17-18 November 2016 Location: Venue TBD, Copenhagen, Denmark Website: Ecology of Care Deadline for expressions of interest: 22 July 2...

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12th Conf of the European Academy of Design (April 2017, Rome Italy)

Dates: 12-14 April 2017 Location: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Website: Design for Next Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 Augus...

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Special Issue of CoDesign: Co-design and the public realm (Sep 2016)

Website: CoDesign Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2016 Guest editors: Liesbeth Huybrechts, Michael Kaethler, Hilde Heynen, Henric Ben...

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People aren't mean enough to social conservatives

John Robson, Tory propagandist. John Robson thinks social conservatives are misunderstood and that we’re being “mean” to them. I think we un...

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RSD5: 5th Symp of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (Oct 2016, Toronto Canada)

Dates: 13-15 October 2016 Location: OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. Website: RSD Symposia Deadline for submission of abstracts: 24 April 2...

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ICoRD '17 - 6th Intl Conf on Research into Design - Design for Communities (Jan 2017, Guwahati India)

Dates: 9-11 January 2017 Location: Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India Website: ICoRD '17 Deadline for submission of abstrac...

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1st Intl Workshop on Computational Models of Social Creativity (June 2016, Seville Spain)

Dates: 1-3 June 2016 Location: Seville, Spain Website: PAAMS CMSC Workshop Deadline for submissions: 18 January 2016 Part of the  14th Intl ...

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Special Track at Intelligent Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM 2016 (May 2016, Rio de Janeiro Brazil)

Dates: 22-25 May 2016 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Website: http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/ethical-legal-and-social-issues.html Deadl...

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Who wants to be a philosopher?

It's so cute when the philosophers struggle to answer a question that's been answered repeatedly outside the bounds of their discipl...

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Conservative propaganda whore David Frum tries to distract people with smoke and mirrors

In David Frum’s recent piece in The Atlantic , he asks us to consider the question: “What explains the outrage at Prime Minister Stephen Har...

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Trudeau's deep thinking is going right over Harper's head

Greg Quinn's article about Trudeau and Harper and the Canadian Federal election underscores Harper's inability to think deeply. Sou...

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Why I'm worried about an Evernote IPO

There have been renewed murmurings over the last few weeks about Evernote, the undisputed leader of general purpose note-taking apps, going ...

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This Olive ain't gettin' the Greek situation

Source: The Toronto Star . David Olive, a business [smirk] columnist at the Toronto Star has written a piece about the Greek situation .  An...

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