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<div>School for Designing a Society welcomes Peter Taylor, a brilliant transdisciplinary thinker, teacher, and writer who is visiting Urbana this weekend from the Critical and Creative Thinking program at UMASS Boston. Please join us for this participatory workshop, which is an inquiry into how we ask questions about social problems:<br>
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<div>How do we know we have
population-environment problems? A journey from simple models to
multiple points of engagement to contribute to change.<br>
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Monday Sept. 26 <br>
3:00-5:30pm<br>
SDAS room at the IMC 202 S. Broadway<br>
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People consume resources and pollute the environment, so the more <br>
people, the more environmental problems we have--right? Not so fast! <br>
In this interactive workshop you will disturb that simple model. By <br>
the end you will be mapping multiple points of engagement through <br>
which you contribute to change in your particular circumstances. <br>
Along the way, you will consider how people marshal scientific <br>
knowledge to persuade others of the seriousness of the population <br>
problem, how inequalities among people qualitatively alter how "we" <br>
respond to the title question, how you can bring in social <br>
considerations to explain or interpret the directions that are taken <br>
in science, and how you can work with a perspective of being partly <br>
and jointly responsible for what is happening in society and the <br>
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Info on <span class="il">Peter</span> Taylor<br>
<a href="http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/" target="_blank">http://www.faculty.umb.edu/<wbr>pjt/</a><br>
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Info on the School for Designing a Society<br>
<a href="http://www.designingasociety.org/" target="_blank">www.designingasociety.org</a></div>
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<div>Download a reading packet of Peter's work here:</div>
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12897763/PTaylorReadingList.zip" target="_blank">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/<wbr>12897763/PTaylorReadingList.<wbr>zip</a><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;"></span><hr style="width:100%;height:2px;"><span style="font-style:italic;">learn about my latest initiative:</span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br>Celebrate U-C People's History Poster Project</span><span style="font-style:italic;"><br>www.ucpeopleshistory.org<br></span><br style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Please make a donation to support future posters:</span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;"><br></span></span><span style="font-style:italic;">www.tinyurl.com/ucphdonation</span><br><br></div><div id="RTEContent"> </div></div></body></html>