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p[Catalog image courtesy of A HREF=”http://www.1800extrude.com/” Cardinal Aluminum Company/A]/p

pNorway-based aluminum supplier Hydro is a good global citizen; last year A HREF=”http://www.hydro.com/en/Subsites/North-America/Resouce-center/Pressroom/News-and-press-releases/Archive/2010/February/Hydro-recycles-200-million-pounds-of-aluminum-in-2009-/” they recycled over 200 million pounds of scrap aluminum/A, some of it post-consumer waste, the rest from industrial waste. By combining the recycled scrap with virgin aluminum, they can produce new billets with over 70% recycled content, resulting in identical strength and performance but with a fresh, green smell./p

pHydro is now trying to spread awareness of their products through what we’ve come to learn is an admirable Scandinavian technique: Education. Hydro’s Extrusion Americas unit is holding A HREF=”http://www.hydro.com/en/Subsites/North-America/Resouce-center/Pressroom/News-and-press-releases/Archive/2010/January/Hydro-releases-Extrusion-Academy-schedule-for-2010/” 20 free-of-charge seminars/A targeting industrial designers, engineers and manufacturers. The seminars will:/p

blockquote…Provide practical instruction on the use of aluminum extrusion in product development, including the extrusion process itself, profile design and alloy selection. They will also focus on fabrication techniques, including welding, machining and bending. A product showcase will demonstrate innovative aluminum extrusion applications and techniques. Additionally, there will be designated time for attendees to bring in any plans to discuss one-on-one with Hydro engineers.

p”Hydro’s Extrusion Academies present a unique opportunity for designers and manufacturers to explore how extrusion can solve manufacturing challenges by connecting directly with experts in the field,” said Lynn Brown, senior vice president, Extrusion Americas sales marketing./blockquote/p

pWe love initiatives like this because they’re not hard-selling you anything, just hoping that after learning about their processes you’ll have a desire to partner with them–and if you don’t, no sweat, at least you walk away with a better understanding of aluminum and extrusions. We just hope that they don’t point out that we Americans are spelling it wrong–Hydro spells it, as the Brits who invented our language do, “aluminIum.”/p

pHit the jump for seminar locations and dates, or A HREF=”http://www.hydro.com/en/Subsites/North-America/Resouce-center/Pressroom/News-and-press-releases/Archive/2010/January/Hydro-releases-Extrusion-Academy-schedule-for-2010/” click here/A for more info from Hydro./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/education/free_aluminum_extrusion_seminars_for_designers_16046.asp”(more…)/a
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pstrongDesign for public place, architecture and visual communication/strong/p

pstronga href=”http://www.designdenhaag.eu/en/”Design Den Haag/a/strong 2010-2018 researches the relation between Design and Government in Europe within an international context, from cultural, economic and social viewpoints. Starting summer 2010, Design Den Haag will organize a total of five public events biennially in the field of design, architecture and visual communication, with exhibitions, publications, lectures and debates, workshops and documentary films. Each edition will entail a collaboration between Den Haag and another European government Capital: Berlin (2010), Stockholm (2012), Paris (2014), London (2016) and Rome (2018). The project will conclude with recommendations concerning the betterment of relations between design and governance, and on governmental funds for the quality of design, architecture and visual communication./p

pemMake sure to check the dot based musical interface on the home page (pictured above)!/em/p

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pParsons The New School for Design announced a new MFA in Transdisciplinary Design set to launch in Fall 2010. The program is based in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons, which encompasses innovative programs that apply design thinking to study the intersection of cities, services and ecosystems. /p

pJamer Hunt will direct the new program. Armed with a PhD in Anthropology and current experience as the chair of Parson’s Urban Design Program, Hunt is ready to explore an impressive range of design problems: “From reinvigorating the public sphere to fostering sustainable everyday practices, the MFA in Transdisciplinary Design will create an environment for learning and experimentation.”/p

pAnd Hunt’s not alone. With faculty and advisors like a href=”http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/”BusinessWeek/a’s Bruce Nussbaum and Fiona Raby of the UK’s a href=”http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/projects”Dunne Raby/a design consultancy on board, this program is gonna be a force!/p

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Commissioned by Cisco, Participle‘s Charles Leadbeater interviewed 100 social entrepreneurs seeking to meet huge needs without the advantage of traditional resources. What we can learn from social entrepreneurs are innovating radically new ways to take learning into the poorest places in to the world.

“In the next few decades, hundreds of millions of young, poor families will migrate to cities in the developing world in search of work and opportunity. Education provides them with a shared sense of hope. Many will be the first generation in their families to go to school. It is vital that the hopes they invest are not disappointed.

Yet even in the developed world, education systems that were established more than a century ago still under-perform, mainly because they fail to reach and motivate large portions of the population. These ingrained problems of low aspiration and achievement among the most disinvested communities in the developed world are proving resistant to traditional treatment.

This report outlines four basic strategies governments in the developing and developed world can pursue to meet these challenges: improve, reinvent, supplement, and transform schools and learning. […]

To make learning effective in the future, to teach the skills children will need, on the scale they will be needed (especially in the developing world), will require disruptive innovation to create new, low-cost, mass models for learning. […]

That kind of disruptive innovation may not come from the best schools. It is much more likely to come from social entrepreneurs who often seek to meet huge need without the resources for traditional solutions: teachers, text books and schools. Disruptive innovation frequently starts in the margins rather than the mainstream.

Governments should continue to look to the very best school systems to guide improvement strategies. But increasingly they should also look to social entrepreneurs working at the extremes who may well create the low-cost, mass, participatory models of learning that will be needed in future.”

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