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		<title>Hack-a-thing workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ligt jouw oude Nintendo DS stof te verzamelen in de kast? Slingert je moeders kapotte haardroger rond op zolder? Of heb je nog een oude broodrooster gevonden in de garage? Neem ze dan mee naar FabLab Genk en blaas je overbodige rotzooi nieuw leven in! Tijdens een tweedaagse workshop hacken we je alledaagse spullen. Dat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/hack-a-thing-workshop</link>
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		<title>Call for papers about Media Aesthetics: ZfM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The aesthetic power of feeling”, wrote the late Félix Guattari, seems to be “on the verge of occupying a privileged position within the collective assemblages of enunciation of our era.” In discerning a “new aesthetic paradigm” he was not anticipating something along the lines of the primacy of the institutionalised arts within the social field, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-media/call-for-papers-about-media-aesthetics-zfm</link>
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		<title>Participatory design for users with impairments @PDC 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; At the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Social Spaces is organising a workshop on participatory design for users with impairments (well, full title is Participatory Design for Users with Impairments Affecting Cognitive Functions and Communication Skills. This workshop aims to exchange experiences with participatory design techniques that were designed for, or adapted to people with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/participatory-design-for-users-with-impairments-pdc-2012</link>
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		<title>Future Formers Free Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Future Formers project will have a final showcase of the five resulting artworks (see this previous post for more information) on Saturday May 5 at Kolonel Dussartplein in Hasselt. To celebrate the end of the project, they also organize a free festival on the same day! Check http://www.facebook.com/events/350821154970618/ for a detailled program of the day. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/future-formers-free-festival</link>
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		<title>[Dutch] Sociaal Innovatie Lab: technologie en armoede</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MadFaculty/Social Spaces participeert in de organisatie van Sociaal Innovatie Labs. Het doel van deze labs is om technologie en innovatie te linken aan de sociale sector. Thema van dit jaar is armoedebestrijding.&#160; Het Sociaal Innovatie Lab zal 6-maal plaatsvinden doorheen Vlaanderen en houdt op 22 mei halt in Genk (namiddagsessie in MAD-Fac, avondsessie op andere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-design/dutch-sociaal-innovatie-lab-technologie-en-armoede</link>
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		<title>[Dutch] 31 mei &#8211; Happy technology makes happy patients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In het kader van 75 jaar Wit Gele Kruis in Vlaanderen wordt er op 31 mei een event georganiseerd rond &#8220;goede&#8221; technologie. Happy Technology Makes Happy People brengt praktijkvoorbeelden en reflecties over het inzetten van technologie in zorgomgevingen. Het vertrekpunt van dit event is de relatie tussen mens en technologie: hoe kan technologie ingezet worden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-design/dutch-31-mei-happy-technology-makes-happy-patients</link>
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		<title>e-Book Dat is design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 1st the e-book Dat is design (This is design) was launched. The book is a collection of essential writings concerning design reflection. It follows the concept of the book Dat is Architectuur (This is architecture) that was published in 2001. 150 texts of the 21st century, starting from 1850, are presented in chronological [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-design/e-book-dat-is-design</link>
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		<title>Reading Urban Cracks: new book &amp; website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New publication, as the result of a practice-based research project in Ghent: Riet Steel, Elly Van Eeghem, Griet Verschelden &#38; Carlos Dekeyrel, Reading Urban Cracks: Practices of artists and community workers, a publication of Hogeschool Gent &#38; MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2012. + the launch of a new digital platform for the mapping of  &#8216;localised artistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/reading-urban-cracks-new-book-website</link>
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		<title>Mapping experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my (Ben Hagenaars) research project  Cultivating Communities, I organised a workshop at the NME seminar (Natuur en Milieu educatie dag) in Brussels last week. 25 stakeholders within the field of environment and education participated in the workshop. The aim was to visualise a fictional map of a network between different schools. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-design/mapping-experiment</link>
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		<title>Call for papers: Digital Creativity &#8211; Special Issue on Design Fictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This special issue of the journal invites papers, projects and reviews exploring and developing the notion of Design Fictions. One of the early proponents of Design Fictions, the author Bruce Sterling, said that design: “seeks out ways to jump over its own conceptual walls – scenarios, user observation, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, critical design, speculative design” (Sterling, 2009). Despite the current burgeoning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-media/call-for-papers-digital-creativity-special-issue-on-design-fictions</link>
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