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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">CALL FOR
PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Environment
2.0: Through
Cracks in the Pavement<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Leonardo
Guest Editor: Drew
Hemment<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The second
call for papers of
the Leonardo special project Lovely Weather: Artists and Scientists on
the
Cultural Context of Climate Change seeks new cross-disciplinary
thinking on
sustainability in urban environments, with a focus on creative
intervention,
social change and non-Western perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">In urban
environments we are
separated from the consequences of our actions as surely as the tarmac
of the road
cuts us off from the earth beneath. This physical boundary encourages a
phenomenological separation. It is also a symptom and a driver of a
global
reliance on the private car and fossil fuel. But between the cracks in
the
pavement, another world flourishes---local activism, recycling,
environmental
collectives, permaculture, urban gardening.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Artistic and
social projects
can widen the cracks in the pavements. Such creative innovations might
be
artworks, social entrepreneurship, scientific intervention or
innovations that
harness everyday creativity. They might seek to decode the complex
relationships between people, nature and technology in urban settings.
Or they
might be conceived as interventions that can help contribute to
profound social
change, or suggest alternative possibilities for or critical
perspectives on
sustainability.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">A new
relationship is
emerging as computing migrates into the environment. When the Earth is
mapped,
tagged and digitized, it ceases to be inert raw material and becomes
instead
navigable, computable and manipulable. How will this affect the way
that
industrial societies have viewed the environment as a resource to be
exploited
and tamed?<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Leonardo is
soliciting texts
that document the works of artists, researchers, and scholars involved
in the
exploration of sustainability in urban environments. Themes and issues
may
include:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">-
Sustainability in urban
environments<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">-
Ubiquitous, pervasive, locative
and mobile communication technology<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">- Growing
community<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">- Sowing
seeds of social
change.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Linked
activity includes an
Urban Climate Camp forum at ISEA2008 in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region>
in August 2008, and an exhibition and workshop at Futuresonic 2009 in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Manchester</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.K.</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
during May 2009, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.futuresonic.com">http://www.futuresonic.com</a>.
Submissions are welcome in
all linked
strands of activity.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Authors are
encouraged to
submit manuscripts or proposals to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:leonardomanuscripts@gmail.com">leonardomanuscripts@gmail.com</a>.
Leonardo
submission guidelines can be found of Leonardo On-Line:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.leonardo.info">http://www.leonardo.info</a>.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";" lang="FR">For
more information on</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"> Leonardo special
project
Lovely Weather: Artists and Scientists on the Cultural Context of
Climate
Change: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.olats.org/fcm/artclimat/artclimat_eng.php">http://www.olats.org/fcm/artclimat/artclimat_eng.php</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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