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		<title>NUUK, BABYLON, GREENLAND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOTO ALBUM OF NUUK BABYLON A block perched on a hill-top flying over the land, no landscaping, no gardening. It is like an alien space ship from &#8216;Denmark&#8217; Indigenous building is the type of settlement where the accommodation is an integral part of nature and climate. Indigenous peoples are people, communities, and nations who claim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=734</link>
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		<title>WORKSHOP IN NUUK GREENLAND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is really interesting to see how the architecture is &#8216;removed&#8217; from the landscape. It is colourful and stands on legs in many places. These days we are a small group of people from CIRRUS spending a short time in the capital of Greenland, Nuuk looking at the visual culture. We make decisions about what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=731</link>
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		<title>OSLO NATIONAL ACADEMY MOVES IN NEW BUILDINGS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Memoriam photo display of the great building that the school has been in for over 100 years. Here is a link to a photo album from the Academy, old, new and opening party My school is moving. The National Academy of Art is finally being assembled in one location. My understanding is that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=718</link>
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		<title>LUNGA ARTS FESTIVAL IN ICELAND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LUNGA is an arts festival/workshop for young people run by young people. This is run in the East of Iceland, in a narrow fjord with a small village named Seyðisfjörður. In July 2010 this took place for the 10th time. The young people allowed me to participate with a short lecture/dialogue about identity. This I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=708</link>
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		<title>BRITISH PETROLIUM AND USA GREED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British Petrolium, what is that? A relic from the British Colonialism raiding its pastures far away. Probably now not such a British company, but an international one. Probably one that our pension funds have invested their funds in without us knowing it. The ‘owners’ of companies today are faceless investors looking after their pension future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=684</link>
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		<title>End of semester presentation in ISArC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The students working the final touches on their group work before presentation. This is the fashion gang in front and the product designers in the distance. This week was the final week of the first formal semester in ISArC here in Maputo. Yes, ISArC is the name from now on. The leadership is developing vision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=668</link>
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		<title>ECO-BLING! To Decorate Ourselves with Sustainablility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Celebrities decorate themselves with eco-lifestyle! Celebrity David De Rothschild sails around in a boat made from plastic bottles. Is this a worthwhile effort or is it ECO-BLING? A while ago I was in a meeting in Oslo about design and creative industries, one of many. We were representatives of design education, the business and industry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=650</link>
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		<title>ECOLOGICAL SANITATION SYSTEMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, 2,6 billion people live without access to a toilet and even though the year 2008 was the United Nations Year of Sanitation, there is little attention and investment in this sector. Major effort is needed globally in order to create hygienic sanitation facilities for millions of people. Water latrines and sewerage systems like we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=600</link>
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		<title>DANSE ARTES CULTURAL CENTER IN MOZAMBIQUE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main boundary wall to the right when entering the site is painted with the mural by Gilles and Cecilie The Danse’Artes project is moving in strides. Construction is in full action and sure has to be since the first opening ceremony is planned next week on the 23rd of June. The project is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=592</link>
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		<title>FORMAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT ISArC-KHiO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Filimone Meigos, director of ISAC and Cecilie Broch Knudsen, rector of KHiO, the two leaders that have signed the formal cooperation agreement on June 15th 2010. As those that have followed my work for a while know, I have been working in Mozambique supporting the establishment of the promising new and first National Academy of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dorigislason.com/?p=586</link>
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