U. Oregon Talk

• Conference schedule - https://oregon2018.iamcr.org/program

• Makerspace at U. Oregon - has 3D printers
• Eco-Arts festival for the 21st
• Eco-fair - for anyone. On 22nd, 23rd, 24th. Ecomedia Arts Festival on the 21st.
• https://blogs.uoregon.edu/urbanfarm/about/
• Arcimoto is based in Eugene - [1]
• https://library.uoregon.edu/scilib/psc-dearmond-makerspace
• https://library.uoregon.edu/price-science-commons-research-library
• https://craftcenter.uoregon.edu/
• Conference itself - 1100-1200 people.
• Conference - not open to the public, but opening ceremony is in theater for 1500, with 1200 reserved, so 300 may come from the public. EMU (student Union) Ballroom - food courts - will be a central loation
• The next level of sustainability - is open source.
• https://emu.uoregon.edu/. Craft center is in the EMU.
• https://emu.uoregon.edu/files/plaza.png
• Craft center has workshop space with welders -
• Tangible practical application of communication and media
• Easiest example - is CSAs
• https://lostvalley.org/
• http://www.aprovecho.net/
• Alternative media;
• Academic conference, but a lot of project involvement.
• Communication - in establishing cooperation. Shared experience as communication. The ways nature communicates.
• We need a new notion of what is media in the 21st century. Neil Postman - a medium is a technology withing which a culture grows.
• Medium as an environment. What are ways we can repair the world, communities, and societies. How can we be enlivened in this space.
• Distinction between system administrator and users - ex. you can take programming as a second language. "Empowered system administrator".
• How is education moving in this direction? Lifelong learning. Survivability - basic forms of fitness. Need to have survivability - and then second - a form of fitness for evolving. We will need a second order notion of cultural competency - based on openness, connectedness -

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