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Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves

January 16, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 7 Comments

  The stick charts were the main tool the Marshallese used to navigate on canoe across the islands of the Pacific Ocean, until WWII. Lacking … [Read more...]

Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army

January 10, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

  Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [Read more...]

Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture

January 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

    Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]

Monopoly before Monopoly: A Board Game as a Critical Device

January 7, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

  "Children of nine or ten years (...) learn that the quickest way to accumulate wealth and gain power is to get all the land they can in the … [Read more...]

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