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RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE CHANGEArchive for Aesthetic Philosophy
The Euphoria Project
The Euphoria Project is self-described as “science-based, self-help, art-film.” This Csíkszentmihályi takes on the streets, positive psychology documentary arts-periment with a mission streams online here, releasing new episodes every week.
Dorit Cypis, Artist/Mediator
Artist/mediator Dorit Cypis is a pioneer in expanding aesthetic strategy. Cypis’ extensive work using artistic approaches to examine relation bring her to apply these same aesthetic concepts to relationships facing conflict. You can learn more about Cypis’ work at her current artist/conflict resolution site. And stay tuned for her upcoming site ForeignExchanges which further merges her two inter-related roles.
“Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Les” / “The Gleaners and I”
The Internet Movie Databases’s (IMDB) plot summary describes the film written and directed by Agnès Varda as:
“An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.”
Click here to see IMDB’s full profile on the film.
Design Your Life
Design Your Life, by designers and educators Ellen and Julia Lupton. Their site shares design applications to arenas ranging from dwelling to public spheres to holidays and rituals to style and personal finance (yes, really).
DYL’s manifesto presents an aesthetic philosophy that is less about achieving slick and snappy artifice and more about embracing a savvy and intentional attitude toward expressive living.
