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PlaceMatters + Mindmixer!
Some great news in the creative collaboration department: Placematters and Mindmixer have teamed up to develop even more powerful town hall brainstorming software. We frequently use our own Brainstorm Anywhere software to help groups of any size brainstorm and prioritize ideas.
CUBE Outreach Available
At this point in the CUBE Calendar, we have third and fourth generation teachers taking CUBE and community building activities to all parts of the US and Internationally. Rochelle Bell writes: I am wondering what you would advise to introduce the idea of including CUBE to Rochester/Monroe County teachers, community organizers and planning, design & health professionals. Rebecca Bell. Monroe County Dept. of Planning and Development
Discovery Series Ongoing
You might say that it all began with Discovery Series in the Johnson County Libraries (and statewide as well). Funders always like to know that a program is replicable and on-going. Let’s hear it for the librarians and educators who have kept these programs goin!!!
A Brain Teaser
What would your community/city look like if the matrix for its growth looked like this: random growth and permanent incompletion?
At Moss Show this summer, a show called “I’ve hard about it did featured a structure with these principles.
"I've Heard About" is an urban structure made of contingent secretions based on principles of
1. random growth
2. permanent incompletion
It develops by successive scenarios without planning and w/o authority of a pre-established plan. It renders the community's structure invisible.
New Book Embraces Environmental Education
This is not just describing a program, this is a “Program in Action.” Environmental Design by Barbara Ochs Nikoomanesh and Lee Sappingfield embraces Environmental Design as a part of the daily life of a classroom.
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