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on January 24, 2011
Chris Kennedy
backed a project
Mildred's Lane Goes Elsewhere by Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
Elsewhere is building a Common Kitchen for education about local food, nutrition, and neighborhood sustainability
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on June 25, 2010
Chris Kennedy
backed a project
The Dancing Ecologist by Karl Cronin
I am documenting the movement patterns of plants and animals. With your support, I will research 200 species and present my discoveries.
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106% funded $1,066 pledged
- 33 backers
- Funded Jul 07, 2010
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on June 22, 2010
Chris Kennedy
backed a project
Brooklyn Brainery Needs a Home! by Jonathan Soma
We host awesomely cheap, collaborative classes on everything from making perfume to what to do with pork shoulder. Now we just need a home base!
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101% funded $9,629 pledged
- 204 backers
- Funded Jul 02, 2010
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on June 1, 2010Funded!
Building the School of the Future by Chris Kennedy
School of the Future is a free education project that explores what school could be. We want to build architecture to give this project a home.
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119% funded $1,195 pledged
- 53 backers
- Funded Jun 01, 2010
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on May 31, 2010
Chris Kennedy
Posted project update #3Thank You | Now let's Party!
Post CommentThank you to everyone who donated to School of the Future!!! We are so thrilled to have so many supporters that believe in our project.
To celebrate and salute you - we will be hosting a School Expo of the Future on June 11th to kick off our summer semester. Join us for a dance-off, good food, drinks, an exposition of classes that will be offered at School of the Future during the month of July and special musical guests!
The Expo is also an opportunity to raise some additional funds for programming at the school and more! So come shake a leg with us, learn how to tango upside-down, inside-out and along the East River tidal strait.
June 11th - 8-11pm @ Solar One under a giant outdoor tent along the East River!
Solar One is at East 23rd Street and the East River all the way passed the FDR DriveSolar One:
24-20 FDR Drive, Service Road East
New York, NY 10010
Directions: www.solar1.org/about/map/PS. Incentives like Un-Varsity Letter Patches, Proximity Magazines and other goodies will be available for you then, or we can send to you personally!
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on May 23, 2010
Chris Kennedy
backed a project
Trade School by OurGoods
At Trade School, students barter with teachers for instruction. Classes range from butter making to ghost hunting. Help us run Trade School again!
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101% funded $9,133 pledged
- 239 backers
- Funded Jun 26, 2010
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on May 23, 2010
Chris Kennedy
Posted project update #2New Drawings of the Proposed Architecture
Post CommentCheck out the new drawings that our archollaborators have cooked up. They're really beautiful, and they're going to get more 3-d soon! The more money we raise, the more cardboard we will replace with wood, and the more hinges instead of masking tape.
These structures are no taller than 10 feet, for scale sake. The carts will fit into the gabled structure, so it can close in on itself at night. More details to come on Monday!
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on May 22, 2010
Chris Kennedy
Posted project update #1ALPHA COURSE CADILLOGUE: a taste!
Post CommentOur first course catalog is available! It will be online, but in the meantime, email us if you'd like to check it out, and we'll send it along to all our donorators. Here are a few classes that have been proposed (out of about 35!)
Radical Library Sciences
Chris Kennedy
For: Anyone
Materials: Basic Craft SuppliesA multi-part experiment in cataloging, consultation and re-imagining of library infrastructure in public space anchored by the Groups and Spaces Unreference Desk. Radical Library Sciences will provide a time/place to discuss the role of the library and the chance to contribute to series of collaborative installations that visualize what you wish a library could be, whom it would serve and how it would work.
How to Ask Questions
Aaron Finbloom
For: anyone that is so profoundly curious that their curiosity has extended to being curious about ways to be curious
Materials: paper, pens, fabric, Blackboard, tilesAn ongoing collaborative discussion on inquiry and asking questions through movement, performance and discussion. The famous Experimental Inquiry Methodology conference is relocating to the School of the Future. Every class will offer an activity which attempts to ask and play with the question: "How do we question/inquire/think?" These activities will range from acting out passages of Hegel to walking around the neighborhood and writing notes on objects allowing them to ask questions about their surroundings.
Scrabble The Park
Barrie Cline
Installation as ClassAs an ongoing installation, ceramic tiles painted with the letters and numbers with a "digital look" will be placed around the park-constantly shifting throughout the month--and available to the public visiting the park. They will merge in different configurations, be used as teaching tools and status updates, and in combination with tiles that are freely decorated by participants, create temporary mosaic patterns throughout the park.
Newtown Creek: The Gunk Under Greenpoint Bike Tour
Ryan Kuonen
For: Anyone with a bikeDescription: Jump on your bike and delve into the history, pollution and health of Newtown Creek, visiting the best sites around the creek to discuss the past, present and future of the area, including the industrial heritage, oil spills and pollution plumes, combined sewage overflows, potential designation as a Superfund site, and the ecosystem of estuaries. Your tour guide is Ryan Kuonen of NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth), a community-based organization in North Brooklyn: www.nag-brooklyn.org.
*We should maybe get people to sign a waiver before the ride. I have a copy of the one TA uses that we can adapt.
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on May 1, 2010
Chris Kennedy launched a project
Building the School of the Future by Chris Kennedy
School of the Future is a free education project that explores what school could be. We want to build architecture to give this project a home.
- $1,000 funding goal
- 06/01/2010 Funding Ended
Chris Kennedy
Greensboro, NC
I work for Elsewhere - a non-profit organization exploring creative collaboration. Through its living museum, innovative residency program, educational initiatives, and projects and events led by the etc. collective, Elsewhere connects people and things.
