The Wellcome Trust
Der Wellcome Trust ist eine gemeinnützige Treuhand mit Sitz in London, die 1936 gegründet wurde, um das Erbe des Sir Henry Wellcome zu verwalten. Sein erklärtes Ziel ist es "Forschung zu fördern, um die Gesundheit von Mensch und Tier zu verbessern". Er ist, nach der Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, die weltweit zweitreichste Stiftung, die medizinische Forschung fördert, und hatte 2006 ein Vermögen von 13.4 Mrd £ (26.8 Mrd USD).
open source
- describes practices in production and development that promote access product's source materials or techniques
- gained hold with the rise of the Internet - retooling of the computing source code
- Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.
The open source model includes the concept of concurrent yet different agendas and differing approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies. A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public. This is increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as biotechnology.
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guerrilla
n.
A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids.
Logic of Transformation. para-sites
“In light of these social, economic, and ecologic urgencies, it is necessary to reconsider the city with the logic of transformation: through superposition, addition, and the extension of our built heritage more than through that of a univocal tabula rasa. This means reclaiming territory in the marginalized areas of our cities, with projects that bear insurrection and civic mobilization.”
