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Upcoming Public Word-Coining Events! Thursday, April 7, 2016, 6:30-8pm}} Participatory Art at MassArt’s Sustainability Incubator
You are invited to infiltrate the English language by creating new words and imagery to show that humans are a part of nature, not separate from it. MassArt MFA candidate Freedom Baird will introduce the open-content Human Nature Dictionary, then attendees will sit together snacking and cooking up new words and images. Feel free to invite people. No previous word-coining experience required! Art supplies will be available, and you can bring your own as well. All are welcome! This is a public-word coining and image making! Refreshments will be provided.
MassArt’s new Design and Media Center, 1st Floor, Incubator Room, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 Welcome to the Human Nature Dictionary!
Browse the definitions here --
The Human Nature Dictionary is an open-content project to which all are welcome to contribute words, images, and definitions that describe how human activity and nature unintentionally intersect, interact, or merge. The Dictionary is part of an on-going effort to catalyze a reconsideration of humans’ relationship to the natural world.
These new words describe mundane entities, extreme occurrences, unusual phenomena, and actions and descriptives of all kinds. An every-day example is “root-kilter”, a term coined to describe the way a tree root slowly pushes up a slab of sidewalk. Another example is “act of man”, a phrase Canadian scientist David Suzuki uses to describe a human-triggered weather catastrophe.
Feel free to contribute words, definitions, or images! You can join as an editor, or simply email us your idea for posting. If you have a word but no definition, send that! Or if you have a definition or image that needs word coining, send it in! We’ll be happy to post your contribution and attribute it as you prefer. As with Wiktionary, your contributed content to the Human Nature Dictionary becomes part of the Creative Commons, as described in this deed.
Thanks for visiting the Human Nature Dictionary and participating in re-shaping our culture through language!
– Freedom Baird, Editor