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Engage: Italian Futurism and modern applied technologies

Although Italian Futurism is a movement of the early 20th century, it hasn’t vanished into irrelevance. Even though some aspects can look unseemly to us now, other key values have been left scratched into our culture. What connections do you … Continue reading

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Week 7: Water in NYC; Futuring methods

Research Challenges.  Using visuals, present a brief introduction to the class on the following examples of contemporary futurism (note – you must go beyond wikipedia): Ray Kurzweil the Tellus Institute Steampunk

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Week 5: Old and New Waste Conversion Technologies, Italian Futurism

Oratory challenge:  theatrically recite excerpts from the Futurist Manifesto (abridged). Listen to and watch this video in Italian for inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1wBf-LJ20

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