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charlottledarwin: Why Old Books Smell Good “Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to…
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“An effective learning environment, and for that matter an effective creative environment, is one in which failure is OK – it’s even welcomed,” Koster says via phone from his hometown of San Diego. “In game theory, this is often spoken of as the ‘magic circle’: you enter into a realm where the rules of the…
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Call for Workshops Theory and practice of research-based processes where art, design and science overlap As part of the “Conference on Practice-Based Research in Art and Design”, which will take place at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar from 1 to 3 December 2011, we would like to encourage the productive exchange between theory and practice of research-based…