Thanks to all who helped, including Georgina for help with organizing
the room booking and local arrangements.
<h1>Interpassionary meeting, 2007 July 5th, 3pm, BA8256</h1>
<img src=interpassionary2007meeting.jpg width=600>
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Clockwise, around the table, starting from the Coke bottle in the center
of the picture:
<ol>
 <li>A, <strong>Steve Daniels</strong>, Program Director,
     New Media Option, School of Image Arts, Ryerson, University;
 <li>B, <strong>Brent Cordner</strong>, Faculty of Architecture,
     Landscape and Design, University of Toronto;
 <li>C, <strong>Katrina Ramnarase</strong>, Child Study program, Ryerson University
      (also Staff at the Ontario Science Centre);
 <li>D, <strong>Alex Jadad</strong>, Director, Global eHealth, University
     of Toronto
 <li>E, <strong>Brian Cantwell Smith</strong>, Dean, Faculty of Information
     Studies, University of Toronto;
 <li>F, <strong>Adam Vaughan, represented here by Jennifer Chan</strong>,
     City Councillor, City of Toronto;
 <li>G, <strong>Cristina Amon</strong>, Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and
     Engineering, University of Toronto;
 <li>a, <strong>Steve Mann</strong>, Department of Electrical and Computer
     Engineering, University of Toronto;
 <li>b, <strong>Anastasios Venetsanopoulos</strong>, Vice President, Research,
     Ryerson University;
 <li>c, <strong>Jason Nolan</strong>, Early Childhood Education, Ryerson
     University;
 <li>d, <strong>Sandeep Kumar Agrawal</strong>,
     school of urban and regional planning, Ryerson University.
 <li>e, <strong>Bruce Kidd</strong>, Dean, Faculty of Physical Education and
     Health.
</ol>

<h1>Notes:</h1>
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BCS: every great idea lives out its dying days as a platitude

Steve: Perhaps this could be said to apply to "New Media" or "Digital", etc.,
 "Media" and "Digital" are getting "tired" (background rather than foreground).
 in the post-digital/post-cyborg era; need for "fluid media" and
 "primal media"; fundamental media and "non-media".
 Nonmedia is existential activity: causes interaction simply by being
 (e.g. cyborglog).

Sandeep, GIS, Ryerson, suggested we talk to Bruce Kuwabara.

Tas Venetsanopoulos: Arts consortium between Ryerson and OCAD.
 Suggested not limit ourselves to only "research": include "creative activity".
 given $5 million; establish centre for interdisciplinary...
 interested in artistic side;
 fashion department working on smart clothes (wearable computing).
 Kerr Hall quad renovations; close Gould street, open up to community;
 demolish tall building.

Bruce Kidd: consider Philosopher's Walk and/or Tattle Creek Road

Steve Daniels, Ryerson: suggested guerrilla approach to waterfront

Steve: Perhaps situationist-type interventions (art), "watervention"?
 Presently there is no playing with water on the waterfront.
 We're also trying to move beyond "guerrilla" approach toward more
 well-funded and permanent installations/platforms.

Bret Cordner, UT Architecture, Biomimicry.
 suggested that everyone thinks of and likes Millennium Park in Chicago.
 suggested hydroforming of hydraulophone sculptures.

Brian Cantwell Smith (dean for 361 more days): suggested we use call it "site".
 (I didn't quite catch the advantages of contextualizing it as a "site";
 Brian, can you email a brief one or 2 sentence explanation?

Alex Jadad: supportive care (music+water therapy);
 suggested we contact Bill Hutchison, who chairs the Toronto Waterfront
 Revitalization Corporation's iWaterfront initiative aimed at turning the
 Toronto Waterfront into an ``intelligent waterfront''.

Katrina: outlined some richly diverse cultural anecdotes around OSC
 hydraulophone.  Wondering how to explain hydr to kids (what do handwheels do?)

Overall, there was a feeling that we should not call it "research",
 or "interdisciplinary" at least too broadly (outside organizations like
 NSERC).  I didn't quite catch the advantages of not calling it research
 or not calling it interdisciplinary.  Can anyone elaborate?  Is it perhaps
 simply a matter that we'd want to under-promise and over-deliver
 (i.e. don't promise research as an outcome of this work)?

 Is this perhaps also because it sounds too "academic"?
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