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Ruth Cuadra

Clash over Google Glass shows hurdles facing wearable tech - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...ttack-20140228,0,7939144.story

CAMLF technology google glass wearable acceptance culture

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 28 Feb 14
     
    The in-your-face nature of the technology has touched a nerve in a society growing increasingly concerned about the invasive nature of new technologies such as wearable gadgets and drones.
Megan Conn

Is That Another Wave Of Collapse Headed Our Way? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...ave-of-collapse-headed-our-way

CAMLF society collapse

shared by Megan Conn on 19 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Simply put, if you don't have any water to drink or food to eat but your neighbors do and won't share, you and your buddies are going to yank it away from them. Social unrest is not a joke.
  • Megan Conn on 19 Mar 14
     
    Are we on the brink of societal collapse?
Ruth Cuadra

Why blunting emotion can save you money - 0 views

www.futurity.org/...ing-emotion-can-save-you-money

CAMLF psychology value rewards

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 15 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 15 Jul 13
     
    Scientists have discovered that your feelings about something and the value you put on it are calculated similarly in a specific brain region. If this is true for individuals, could also be true for organizations (i.e., collections of individuals)?
Garry Golden

The overexposed museum by Eric Gibson - The New Criterion - 1 views

www.newcriterion.com/...The-overexposed-museum-7757

museum ux design experience culture society+of+spectacle

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  • Garry Golden on 04 Dec 13
     
    or you could automate 'selfies' w/ plug and play to any piece within the collection
Ruth Cuadra

Our culture excludes the old when they have so much to contribute - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-british-society-marginalised

CAMLF demographics elders volunteers

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 10 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 10 Nov 13
     
    The retired have immense experience and are often prepared to work as volunteers. But we are failing to match their talents to our needs; or our talents to their needs.
Elizabeth Merritt

Does the Art World Have a Demographics Problem? | Picture This | Big Think - 1 views

bigthink.com/...ld-have-a-demographics-problem

demographic transformation demographics

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 21 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • experience of the population in our increasingly diverse and still troubled nation.” Perhaps it’s time for art museums to advocate actively for a place in the national educational curriculum, not just for their own selfish survival, but to save culture itself as a important part both of our heritage and of our future as a coalition of creatively, critically
Elizabeth Merritt

The great tax escape that is America's nonprofit sector | FT Alphaville - 2 views

ftalphaville.ft.com/...-is-America-s-nonprofit-sector

tax exempt status

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 14 May 18 - No Cached
    • Elizabeth Merritt
      Elizabeth Merritt on 14 May 18
       
      Philip Hackney, @EOTaxProf, notes "same orgs were exempt back in 1862 when first income tax was enacted"
  • it turns out that the way the wealthy decide how to distribute cash is often even less fair than the way the state decides how to spend it.
  • More than half of the highly conspicuous donations of the ultra-rich were injected directly into the endowments of their already rich alma maters. Much of the rest was given to hushed museums in the form of very expensive donated art, or to other places that rich old people tend to congregate, like cultural arts centers and high-end hospitals. In other words, the funds the rich were giving went largely to institutions that tended to the needs and prerogatives of the rich and privileged.
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  • DAFs were being used to sidestep rules that require foundations to make annual donations to charities.
Elizabeth Merritt

How Community Design Advocates Can Be a Force for Design Justice - 0 views

nextcity.org/...-be-a-force-for-design-justice

design community development desigh justice restorative practice Black Panthers

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 10 Jan 22 - No Cached
  • Currently, Colloqate is working with community design advocates on Midland Library in Portland and restorative justice space in Dallas.
  • The project in Dallas, which deals with a former jail, allows us to think about restorative justice through the lens of those who have been most harmed by that space. We were able to hire CDAs that were formerly incarcerated and hire others who were part of the broader network of the city and they were working together to ask questions of their own specific communities,
  • Design as Protest (DAP) began as a yearlong organizing effort, involving 250 design professionals and design advocates across the United States and Canada. They examined how injustice can be challenged through the built environment. Issues such as ending the prison industrial complex, defunding and reallocating the police, and advocating against architecture projects that are hostile to communities of color.
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  • The Black Panthers talked about removing capitalist intentions within communities which are the standard tropes around what gentrification is and what it means for capital to come into a neighborhood and wash away cultural institutions. The ethos of design justice is simply that for every injustice in this world there is an architecture, a plan, a design, that’s been built to sustain that injustice, and for so much of our work power is vested in land.”
  • Elizabeth Merritt on 10 Jan 22
     
    Community Design Associates are not only asked to talk about design, but also about their own experiences and the nuances that get missed in public consultations where the project is set and residents can only ask questions or give opinions.
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