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RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE CHANGEArchive for interdisciplinary
ARTSEDGE
ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGEempowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects.
ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
Visit ARTSEDGE.
The Urbanite Project
Readers are prepared to “Expect the Unexpected.” The Urbanite Project is an annual initiative of Urbanite Magazine, a publication recognized for taking a fresh look at Baltimore City life. The Urubanite Project gathers teams of individuals from a breadth of disciplines to tackle a given challenge in collaborative, innovative ways.
The 2008 teams have been challenged: “What would you do if there were no boundaries? What concern—either here in Baltimore or globally— would you confront if nothing stood in your way? The Urbanite Project aims to explore the possibilities of collaborative innovation and bring that power to bear on the most intractable human problems.”
Futurefarmers
“Futurefarmers is a group of practitioners aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us. Through collaboration, we explore the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists. Since 1995, Futurefarmers has served as a design studio producing projects for clients including Adobe, Swatch, Hewlett Packard, Levi’s, Autodesk, Nike, LucasFilm, Greenpeace, PBS, NEC and MSNBC.
Futurefarmers work across many media. We enjoy creating platforms for sociability, play and culitvating consciousness.
Futurefarmers employ a fertile approach to every project…Integral to our studio practice is ongoing research in new media technologies, renewable energy sources, and new configurations of learning. We host workshops, presents projects, seminars, and a web site that collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in. Futurefarmers is where the energy of art production, education, curatorial practice and social interaction fuse to create a vital space and an environment of exchange.
Futurefarmers are well known as innovators within the new media art and design contexts. They have exhibited internationally at numerous galleries and museums, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, the ZKM in Germany and at America’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Whitney Biennale. They have received numerous awards including the Webby Award and the Transmediale award among others.”
-ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany”
Futurefarmers also runs the wholly impressive resource site Free Soil.
