Imagination of Things

We are a creative group inventing new possibilities for our cultural fabric. We explore narrative uses of design and technology to create content, artefacts, and experiences. As social prototypers, we experiment with human interfaces that unfold the imagination of our society.

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You Can Swim In a Secret Pool in the Mojave Desert, If You Can Find It

When it's hot, city dwellers begin to have a certain look of desperation: That single-minded determination to access the sweet summer relief of a pool. Well, here's a public pool that's completely free and available to use—provided you can locate the pool itself, which is somewhere in the middle of a 25,000 square-mile Southern California desert.

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How to make a solar iPod/iPhone charger -aka MightyMintyBoost

I wanted a charger for my iPodTouch and the MintyBoost was definitely my first choice. I wanted to take it a bit further and make it not only rechargeable but also solar powered. The other issue is that the iPhone and iPodTouch have large batteries in them and will deplete the two AA batteries in the MintyBoost rather quickly so I wanted to increase the battery power as well. What I really wanted was a MightyMintyBoost! Apple has sold over 30 million iPodTouch/iPhone units- imagine charging all of them via solar power.... If every iPhone/iPodTouch sold was fully charged every day (averaging the battery capacity) via solar power instead of fossil fuel power we would save approximately 50.644gWh of energy, roughly equivalent to 75,965,625 lbs. of CO2 in the atmosphere per year. Granted that's a best case scenario (assuming you can get enough sunlight per day and approximately 1.5 lbs. ...

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Politics: the science of redistribution

Oswald de Andrade

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Is it not evident that America itself was paralyzed by the same blow that paralyzed the Indian? Until the Indian is caused to walk, America itself will not begin to walk well.

José Martí

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The right to have rights. We have the right to be equal whenever difference diminishes us; we have the right to be different whenever equality decharacterizes us. We have a normative hybrid: it is  modernist because based on an abstract universalism, but it is formulated in such a way as to sanction a postmodern opposition based on both redistribution and recognition.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos in Nuestra America

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Spain's hologram protest: Thousands join virtual march in Madrid against new gag law

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spains-hologram-protest-thousands-join-virtual-march-in-madrid-against-new-gag-law-10170650.html

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https://thedemocracytwoexperiment.wordpress.com/

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Kai Cheng Thom

writer, performer, cultural worker

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There never any children or elders in social justice communities, which means they aren’t really communities. They’re just scenes.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/social-justice-less-elitist/

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Manus x Machina

Manus x Machina, The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition, will explore how fashion designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.

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The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself.

Sick Woman Theory

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Sick Woman Theory

Johanna Hedva lives with chronic illness and her Sick Woman Theory is for those who were never meant to survive but did. Her fellow spoonies.

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The Empathy Bomber goes all the way to South Korea!

The International Exhibit on Conceptual Art CICA Museum

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IoWT is a collective of women discussing technology and the increasingly connected world in which we...