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	<description>Observations by Abhay Adhikari of Dhyaan Design</description>
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		<title>Would you like to read some Japanese?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second half of a 2-part post about my experience with year 7 students in Selby. I worked in collaboration with nybep to deliver workshops on the following themes &#8211; Self-Awareness through Breath-Control and Learning New Languages (the fun way). I have yet to come up with a decent title for either workshop. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/would-you-like-to-read-some-japanese/</link>
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		<title>Pillows are for sleeping&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I had a chance to work with year 7 students at a school in Selby. The wonderful folk at nybep had arranged for me to deliver workshops on two themes &#8211; Self-Awareness through Breath-Control and Learning New Languages (the fun way). Both themes elicited some interesting and unexpected reactions from students and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/pillows-are-for-sleeping/</link>
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		<title>What happens at York&#8217;s Social Media Surgeries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first social media surgery in York took place in November 2009 and this past month we held the seventh. As we take a break over the summer months, I am writing this post to explain how we go about planning a surgery and what happens at the event. Hopefully some of the information shared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/what-happens-at-yorks-social-media-surgeries/</link>
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		<title>Creating a &#8216;living&#8217; archive for Poster Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been commissioned to work on a rather interesting project that will eventually take shape as a living archive for the Poster Women project by Zubaan Books. I shall explain what I mean by &#8216;living&#8217;, but first, here are a few details about Poster Women. As explained on this website, this project began with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/to-create-a-living-archive/</link>
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		<title>Two workshops in partnership with nybep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a couple of week&#8217;s time I will be conducting workshops on some interesting themes with school children from Selby. These have been developed for NYBEP who are keen to facilitate relationships between schools and external practitioners from various disciplines. And I must say, working with these guys, I am deeply impressed by their patience. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/two-workshops-in-partnership-with-nybep/</link>
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		<title>Make the little fishies go away!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after 3.5 years of research and the subsequent hunt for a collaborator, I have previewed a prototype version of the breath-control game at Shift Happens &#8211; The Arts, Learning and Technology conference that is held in York every year. This year&#8217;s event was held between July 5-6. I was invited to deliver a brief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/make-the-little-fishies-go-away/</link>
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		<title>My talk at @ShiftHappens July 5-6 York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to deliver a wee talk about my work at @ShiftHappens &#8211; The Arts Learning &#038; Technology conference in York on July 5-6. I have embedded the prezi I used in this post: .prezi-player { width: 590px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } Shift Happens presentation on Prezi]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/07/my-talk-at-shifthappens-july-5-6-york/</link>
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		<title>Gateway update &#8211; Doing things differently!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about The Gateway project is the briefing document that was given to me by the university &#8211; to create a web based platform that encourages students to develop a sense of readiness for opportunity. This brief captures the central premise of my work, to use the WWW as a medium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/06/gateway-update-doing-things-differently/</link>
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		<title>Exciting projects galore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just realized that the previous post on the site is from March, which means there is an urgent need for me to provide an update on what has been going these past few months. I am quite happy to say that there have been some exciting developments/commissions and some interesting work in the pipeline. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/05/exciting-projects-galore/</link>
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		<title>Solus 3 &#8211; The Sky Above The Roof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to take a break from educational projects and talk about other work. I am happy to announce that work on the Solus 3 project is going well. This time I am working with the very talented @hyggedesigns to create the album artwork and a website for the band which hails from London. The album, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dhyaandesign.com/blog/2010/03/solus-3-the-sky-above-the-roof/</link>
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