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676:(climate linked individual- mate). CLI- mate is an app that is accessible in any language and free for its users. The idea is that it will personalize anyone's relationship with climate change. Users input their daily habits, the app combines their information with every single users and it calculates their impact on the planet. Users will be able to combine their faces with the worlds. The app is missing information on climate changes.
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Station Museum, as well as new drawings. Chin exhibited "KNOWMAD" as well as "Render" at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in 2000 and 2003.
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Fritschy Culture Award, Mel Chin exhibited a solo show at the museum Het Domein, titled "Disputed Territories". In 2019, Mel Chin was named a MacArthur Fellow.
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American foreign policy that has fractured the ability of
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Detroit, Michigan. He looked at neglected homes that once thrived as a starting point for community development.
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mathematically derived cloud patterns. The hand woven
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The Operation of the Sun through the Cult of the Hand
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