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Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:59 PM<br>Subject: Observers Room: John Thackara: April 2011 Newsletter<br>To: <a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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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 bioregions only to encounter a disused nuclear plant that I said could be their next cultural icon.
My <a href="http://www.norskdesign.no/video/fagseminar-paa-designdagen-2011-article18464-636.html" target="_blank">talk at Norway's Design Day</a> also begins in somber terms but ends on a positive note.
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JOHN THACKARA</h4>
<h1 style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 120%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25988" style="color: rgb(182, 63, 25);" target="_blank">Utopia is Here</a></h1>
Ridley Scott's film <i>Blade Runner</i>, 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.<br>
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<h1 style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 120%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25818" style="color: rgb(182, 63, 25);" target="_blank">Collapse of Civilization Tango</a></h1>
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.<br>
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<h1 style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 120%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25808" style="color: rgb(182, 63, 25);" target="_blank">From Bankster HQ to Start-up Central in Iceland</a></h1>
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Made by two young Icelandic women, </span>The Start-Up Kids</i> is a documentary about young entrepreneurs who have founded web and media startups in the US and Europe.<br>
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<h1 style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 120%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25598" style="color: rgb(182, 63, 25);" target="_blank">Can Thermal Perception Change Behavior? </a></h1>
A premise of Joseph Giacomin's new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1901092844/designobserver-20/" target="_blank">Thermal</a> </i>is that global warming is hard to ignore when you view the world through thermal eyes.<br>
<br> Hard, but not impossible, to ignore. We humans are skilful evaders of uncomfortable truths.<br>
<a href="http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25598" style="font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(182, 63, 25);" target="_blank">READ MORE</a><br>
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<h1 style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 120%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://observersroom.designobserver.com/entry.html?utm_source=Observers+Room_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_04_01_2011&entry=25498" style="color: rgb(182, 63, 25);" target="_blank">Images de Pens�e</a></h1>
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.<br>
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<h4 style="font-size: 9px; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">JOHN THACKARA: RECENT ESSAY</h4><br>
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Ideas for remaking Basque country that go far beyond fancy architecture.<br>
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