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My task here is to explore the positioning of what urban business evangelist Richard Florida has branded the “creative class,” and its role, ascribed and anointed, in reshaping economies in cities, regions, and societies. In pursuit of that aim, I will consider a number of theories—some of them conflicting—of the urban and of forms of…
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By Bruce Sterling December 14, 2010 | 2:27 pm | Categories: Uncategorized *Useful advice for those who travel with creative one-off devices. *Even if border guards and customs officials somehow get used to this stuff (because they’ve been to electronic art fairs), the time may come when you’re travelling with something else just as baffling,…
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Amanda Vissell’s posters for girls – Boing Boing one part of our P4games project has been to find an appealing approach for girls to participate in game design. We are following some antecedents (cf. Brenda Laurel and Purple Moon, Mary Flanagan; and, Alice from Carnegie Mellon’s Randy Pausch). These posters by Amanda Vissell are thought…