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		<title>Bateson&#8217;s Double Bind, Constraints on Human-Environment Intrxnz, and Ener-geets™</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After writing yesterday&#8217;s post on psychology and climate change, I stumbled upon this article from the journal Ecological Economics entitled, &#8220;The art of the cognitive war to save the planet&#8221;.
The article details the proposition that our adaptive capacity&#8211;to respond to environmental feedback&#8211;to learn&#8211;is structured by the double bind, a concept coined by Gregory Bateson. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/batesons-double-bind-constraints-on-human-environment-intrxnz-and-ener-geets%e2%84%a2/</link>
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		<title>Notes on Psychology &amp; Climate Change: Levers for Systainable Systems Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently scanned this report that leveraged domain understanding in psychology to the problem of climate change.  While the problem of climate changed could just as easily be reframed as a problem of recognizing variability and relevance, the research and patterns that the report draws upon can be used in the design process as levers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/notes-on-psychology-climate-change-levers-for-systainable-systems-design/</link>
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		<title>Learning Relevance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been casually reading Scott Atran and Douglas Medin&#8217;s The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature since I came back from the U.S. in January.  I picked the book up for a few reasons. One, I was familiar with Scott Atran&#8217;s work after running across it while I was studying at the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/learning-relevance/</link>
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		<title>Letters to a Young Cross-Cultural Designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine recently received a request for a response on the topic of designing interculturally.  It came from a graduate student in design who wrote about how his research &#8220;focuses on examining how culture influences visual language and what that means for contemporary designers who are increasingly asked to design across cultural boundaries&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/letters-to-a-young-cross-cultural-designer/</link>
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		<title>Transactional Arts &amp; the Coefficient of Art (ϕ)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This find (thanks Dharmang) describes a history and accounting of the Transactional Arts&#8211;which is art, where a transaction is explicitly part of the work.
Daniela Plewe&#8217;s discussion brings me back to some thoughts and notes I made about Marcel Duchamp&#8217;s Coefficient d&#8217;Art. Duchamp described it as:

“An arithmetical relation between the unexpressed but intended and the unintentionally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/transactional-arts-the-coefficient-of-art-%cf%95/</link>
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		<title>Dal Baati</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a recipe.  I learned to make this with a family at the Pushkar fair and a small group Srishti students and faculty.  It&#8217;s a traditional Rajasthani dish of dal and baati which is like a heavy bread or roll.  You could probably make small baati (ours were the size of tennis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Engagement, Art, and Narration of Science &amp; Technology Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a post that I initially wrote for the &#8216;Telling Stories&#8217; discussion group that is made up of recipients of the Wellcome Trust&#8217;s International Engagement Award.  The group practices public engagement with public health and science from a variety of different perspectives and goals.  In this post, I was exploring the role of narration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/public-engagement-art-and-narration-of-science-technology-development/</link>
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		<title>How to Think About Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a fantastic series of podcasts produced by the CBC a few years back.  The podcasts interviews many noted historians, philosophers, sociologists, and scientists to help distill what science is, how it&#8217;s claims to knowledge and facts are produced, and what many of the critical themes and questions are that science has to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/how-to-think-about-science/</link>
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		<title>8 Digital Media and Learning Proposals about Energy &amp; Climate Adaptation, 3 Outliers, and 3 about Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After ManU went up 2-0 against Arsenal I started browsing and commenting on the submissions to this year&#8217;s Digital Media and Learning Competition that the MacArthur Foundation and HASTAC run each year.
Some observations:

 Lots of games and game-like labs in the mix.
 Art/Sci is now officially mainstream.
 Climate and Sustainability are BIG social issue themes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semeiotica.com/2010/02/8-digital-media-and-learning-proposals-about-energy-climate-adaptation-3-outliers-and-3-about-water/</link>
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		<title>Anthropogenic Biomes</title>
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	Where People Live

Anthropogenic Biomes as a Region for Research in Evolutionary Design Ecology
Many systems of classification for regions ignore the integration of human influence and ecosystem form, process, and diversity. This situation was common when I was in school and we learned about different ecological regions that were described largely by vegetation type and the [...]]]></description>
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