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March was a febrile month. Fukushima was an existential threat posed by an
energy utopia gone wrong; Joseph Giacomo's book 'Thermal' rendered our
energy addiction visible; and the collapse of civilization became an
experimental dance piece in New York. I visited Bilbao to talk about
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JOHN THACKARA Utopia is
Here<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25988>Ridley
Scott's film
*Blade Runner*, made in 1982, portrays a dystopian Los Angeles as it might
be in 2019. In just eight years from now we are due to discover and find out
whether or not the film was an accurate prediction.
READ MORE<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25988>

 JOHN THACKARA Collapse of Civilization
Tango<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25818>Choreographer
Valerie Green and Dance Entropy, a New York City-based
experimental dance troupe, will shortly premier a new work, "Rise and Fall,"
that's about collapsing civilizations, the raw ugliness of industrialization
and gross consumption.
READ MORE<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25818>

 JOHN THACKARA From Bankster HQ to Start-up Central in
Iceland<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25808>
*Made by two young Icelandic women, The Start-Up Kids* is a documentary
about young entrepreneurs who have founded web and media startups in the US
and Europe.
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 JOHN THACKARA Can Thermal Perception Change Behavior?
<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25598>A
premise of Joseph Giacomin's new book
*Thermal<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1901092844/designobserver-20/>
 *is that global warming is hard to ignore when you view the world through
thermal eyes.

Hard, but not impossible, to ignore. We humans are skilful evaders of
uncomfortable truths.
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 JOHN THACKARA Images de
Pensée<http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25498>Darwin,
Freud, Descartes, Goethe, Klee, Beuys, Marinetti, Nabokov, among
others, left behind these "images of thought." They have been found in
notebooks, on the pages of manuscripts, in the margins of letters, on paper
napkins.
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 JOHN THACKARA: RECENT ESSAY
[image: Does Bilbao Need Another Guggenheim?]
Does Bilbao Need Another
Guggenheim?<http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=25978>Ideas
for remaking Basque country that go far beyond fancy architecture.
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