On his Viridian Design mailing list (which just turned 6 years old), author / genius / ecological oracle Bruce Sterling says:
I have been asked to take a year-long guest residency, teaching design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
This school is in the Los Angeles basin, the epicenter of Southern Californian car culture, the etymological origin of the term “smog,” and a metroplex that arm-wrestles Houston every year for the crown of the most polluted city in the USA. If there’s a heart to the Greenhouse beast, well, it can’t be far from Pasadena.
I’m taking the job. It’s time to become the change we want to see. For the year 2005, the Viridian Pope-Emperor is becoming a design professor. I have a number of ambitious developments in mind for Viridian list, because, starting January, design will become my career. I’m leaving Texan and I’m becoming Californian. For a while, anyhow.
The full text of this mailing list post isn’t yet available online — but when it is, it will be right here: Link