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For anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised of extracts from Bunny's own writings and garden notes, as well as photographs and drawings from her archive―readers will feel as if Bunny Mellon has come alongside as a gardening guide and friend.

THIS PAPER STUDIES THE ROLE OF ANDREW W. MELLON AS THE RELUCTANT KINGMAKER AT THE 1928 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WHICH NOMINATED HOOVER. THE OPPOSITION TO HOOVER WAS LARGER THAN IS SUPPOSED, AND MELLON ONLY ENDORSED HOOVER FOR LACK OF AN ALTERNATIVE CANDIDATE. HOOVER WON THE NOMINATION, BUT IT CANNOT BE ASSUMED THAT THE ISSUE WAS NEVER IN DOUBT.

An outside rally at the Carnegie Mellon university (CMU) campus took place November 9, 1994. The action was called to protest a recent administration decision to ban students from gaining access to certain Internet news groups that contain materials school officials deem pornographic. CMU officials maintain that their decision was necessary to comply with a Pennsylvania law dealing with obscenity. "Our official policy is to obey the law." said Bill Arms, vice president for Computing Services. "There are bboards out there that are used to display sexually explicit material." A letter on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) addressed to CMU president Robert Mehrabian explains that the "University's plan is inconsistent with the principles of academic freedom and free speech . and is based on serious misreading of relevant laws." Comparing the Internet to campus libraries, which are exempt from the state's obscenity laws, the ACLU letter notes, "A library free from government control is an essential component of a vibrant university."

The exhibition, Climactic: Post Normal Design, focuses on design and political activism surrounding issues of coloniality, crises around culture and race, and climate change in both the Global South and North. The curatorial premise of the exhibition is to engage audiences in thinking about the precarity of the age we currently live in, a precarity not in some small part due to the contemporary practices of design. Our exhibition, workshopsand panel discussions present alternative models for design that broaden human capacity to understand and intervene in social and environmental crises. Climactic: Post Normal Design is co-organized by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design and Miller Gallery. It is the fourth iteration of a series of exhibitions and symposia initiated by Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking, shown at University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney, Australia, in 2014.

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