Friday, March 18, 2011 Volume 2, Issue 5 Editor: Connor Turland
This Week: * KISS Nominations* How To KISS * Collaborative Culture, Collaborative Consumption: Waterloo *
How To KISS
KISS nominations
Come out and experience some different workshops and learn something new! Info: Tomorrow, in EV2-2002 from 1-5pm
by: Kevin Rodriguez
HEY KI! Are you interested in being involved in KISS next year? Do you know someone you think would do a great job as part of our executive? If so, go check out the KI website and check out the descriptions of the various positions. If you think you know someone that would do a good job in one of the positions, nominate them by emailing their name and the position to me at krod_20@hotmail.com . That’s right guys, this is a call for nominations for next years exec! We are very excited to get as many people as we can involved, and we need lots of nominations! So please nominate! Happy home stretch of the term!
Notable things: 1. there’s free n0mz 2. you can just come to a ‘how-to’ event that specifically interests you and not the rest 3. the only unlocked door on the weekend is the main EV1 entrance
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Kevin Rodrigues (The Prez)
Schedule: 1:00 pm - Juggling with Will and Ed 1:45 pm - Break 2:00 pm - Origami with Kyrie and Mary 2:20 pm - Break 2:30 pm - Free Software with Ryan and Devin 2:50 pm - Break with n0mz 4:00 pm - Drawing with Linda (I need this :s ->)
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March 21-22 @Coffeeshop
KISS Annual General Meeting
Free soup being served in the SLC March 22nd
March 25th, 4-5pm @EV2-2002.
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Apr 1st 6-9pm @Coffeeshop Contact Brittany Jordan to sign up.
Apr 4 Last Day of Classes!?!?
Where: Environment 1 (EV1), Room 221 When: March 31, 2:30pm-4:30pm Note: Space is limited, we strongly recommend reserving a seat
Complexity, Scaling and Cities, Mike Batty [The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London]
Consumption: Waterloo Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation presents: Steady State Economics, Steve Purdey Where: Rod Coutts Hall (RCH), Room 208 When: March 23, 2pm-4pm
Description: In the last 50 years, a concern for systems in general as articulated from the top down has evolved into thinking of systems from the bottom up. Systems for long conceived is as static structures with a well defined dynamics are now largely seen as being far from equilibrium, chaotically dynamic and not longer explicable in terms of classical physical and socio-economic theory. In this talk, I will explain how these ideas are beginning to permeate out thinking about cities, illustrating the path to complexity theory in terms of how cities emerge from the bottom up. I will illustrate these ideas using a variety of examples, from fractal patterns, from ideas about size and scaling, in terms of new sorts of models based on automata and agents, pulling this all together in suggesting how this new thinking is beginning to change the way we think about urban futures and ways we might design and invent them in more appropriate ways than in the past.
Resilience
Creative Change-Makers: TransitionKW ~ Sustainable Waterloo ~ WPIRG ~ LSPIRG ~ Social Innovation Generation ~ Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation ~ ~ Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative Culture Designing ~ ~ Centre for International Governance Innovation ~
Description: All participants in the world economy are lined up behind a single policy priority, namely, the pursuit of economic growth. The growth model has served national and international interests very well for more than 200 years, but economic expansion is now problematic. Planetary constraints are being encountered and, by consuming massive quantities of fossil fuel, economic growth drives climate change. A new model – the steady-state economy (SSE) – is proposed to resolve these problems. Transitioning from one model to the other presents formidable socio-economic and political challenges. This seminar will introduce the concept of the steady-state world economy and shed some light on transitional issues.
graphics Creative Commons collaborativeconsumption.com
Guillemots – I Don’t Feel Amazing Now Lissie – Everywhere I Go Liam Bailey – It’s Not the Same Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work Golden Silvers – Magic Touch Speech Debelle – The Key Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust on the Ground
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin’s Seven is a weekly playlist of seven songs compiled by Kevin Rodriguez for the KISS Intel publication. Kevin is a second year student of Knowledge Integration and a practicing musician.
Go to the kissintel.tumblr.com website to link to the playlist!
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Watch Listen Tell is the brainchild of Dave Tree and his partner Ben Axtell. They created a project that takes artists out of their comfort zones and onto the streets to perform acoustic versions of their songs. You get a true sense of their abilities because they are armed with nothing but their talent. It is a great avenue for finding new artists, as Dave really keeps an ear out for new talent. It is music recorded just as it should be, recorded without some of the added bells and whistles and on a stills camera with video capabilities. No switching angles, almost edited on the fly for a really intangibly cool experience. Here are 7 of my favourites, filmed in really cool location around London. Check it out and I really recommend watching more!
Watch Listen Tell:
photo by: Kenzie Reid
by: Kevin Rodriguez
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‘Strategizing depends on a rich and complex web of conversations that cuts across previously isolated pockets of knowledge and creates new and unexpected combinations of insight.’ ce? resilien -Gary Hamel ted to c e n n o c
The event is being headed by the group TransitionKW, in alliance with the Mayor of Waterloo, Brenda Halloran, and other partners such as, Laurier Students Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative Culture Designing
Which city in particular? Waterloo, of course. This series of three events; Saturdays April 2, May 7, and June 18 is one that holds great potential for creating the conversation that, at this time in the world, is critical we be having. Anyone who feels that their voice would be valuable to the conversation, and I would hope that’d be all citizens, is welcome to sign up for the conversation. The event is listed on eventbrite under the title above, or you can find links to the page at related websites like www.resilientwaterloo.ca.
Mayor’s Forum Series for Building Resilient Cities
My priority event to report to you today has got to be the upcoming;
Here, I’d like to share that which I know about our city with you, in particular, those efforts that are being made to shake the city to its senses.
Being in 2nd year of university here at the University of Waterloo, one could say that I’ve lived here for coming up on two years. This is not the case. To me, ‘living’ somewhere isn’t about your current physical location so much as about the physical location that you consider yourself invested in. There may be people here at the University that have known they wanted to stay here in Waterloo, but until recently, I didn’t consider myself one of them. Something changed in me recently, and it had to do with the house where I now live here in Waterloo. I originally moved there as a place to stay while I go to school, but now, now it’s more like going to University is something to do while I live at the house, or in fact, while I live in general. Having realized the extent to which I do enjoy Waterloo, I realized that I hardly want to spend every minute of 4 years slaving away at 5 classes a semester. So a reduced course load makes sense to me, but that’s a topic for another article.
by: Connor Turland
Collaborative Culture
exhibit THIS by: Yanne Tordint Borjt
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1. Rumbleroar is the headmaster of this school (on mars) 4. The creator of Pokemon didn’t die this week due to this 7. This British royal was once impersonated by a human-newt hybrid in a science fiction short story of the same name. 8. ‘April Fool’s’ day in Spanish is Dia de los ______ 10. It’s like Night at the Museum, but for several nights, without dino- saurs 11. Give ______ a chance 13. University college gaining notoriety for spamming OMGUW (2 words) 15. This superhero is no match for Wesley Willis 17. ISU World Championships of Figure Skating have been postponed due to natural disaster(s) in this country 20. Cats 23. SEO is short form for _____ ______ Optimization 24. Charlie’s band on Lost 26. ___ __ _____ McDonald’s 29. Mo money mo 32. 4 8 15 16 __ __
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2. Kind of cheese found on Greek salad 3. Live every week like it’s ___ ____ 5. Scooby Doo’s vehicle of choice (2 words) 6. PIE 9. Amsterdam song rewrite: “YOOOO _____ _____ KNAWJ INGRATE” (2 words) 12. Philosopher/Jeremy Bentham/cardboard box salesman/man in black/smoke monster/cool bald guy (2 words) 14. Lego Harry Potter and lego Indiana Jones live here 16. ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement in German literature and music is reminiscent of this Wizarding School 18. Serge & Charlotte __________ 19. Rock and roll _________ 21. In a world without vowels sunglasses are 22. Twitter account for KIX2011 25. Virgin Mary statues stuffed with this is a tree on the Island 27. Previously, on ________ (insert creepy music here) 28. There is an upcoming party celebrating stereo types associated with this country 30. This delicious sandwich with 3 buns now comes in wrap form 31. pi = 3.___