DIGITAL DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES

Casavaria, through custom web-design, hosting, and the inclusion of extensive textual resources, offers digital communities (open or dedicated) where students and professors can gather online to discuss, debate, and research a given academic pursuit.

Professors from various institutions can create a forum online for the specific sharing of information related to new and experimental work in their field. Or, professors can engineer an online community where their students can experience an elevated degree of engagement with course material and explore new and unfamiliar concepts in a convenient, attractive, and familiar way.

A university can commission the creation of a digital forum for the dissemination of its mission, its policies on academic integrity, and changes to its operating procedures, schedules, or administrative planning.

PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS TO DATE:


Sentido is Casavaria's Discursive Community for News & Information. Member news services and learning institutions will participate in content sharing, and mutual comparative criticism. Visit Sentido today, to learn more...


Café Sentido a cultural undertaking organized by way of Casavaria's news portal, Sentido.tv, and in collaboration with artists and other publishers, like Linkgua Ediciones, bringing to life a roving exhibit space that highlights the vibrancy of cultural inquiry, creative expression and high design, of the city of Barcelona.


Envisioned as a forum which may bring together scientists, authors, researchers, critics, hobbyists and lay people, in an effort to spur discussion and to foment innovation, Think is, in terms of stated goals, Casavaria's most ambitious project to date, aiming to develop major new technologies to help bring the costly aspects of everyday post-industrial life in line with what the planet, and civilization itself, can sustain. The project seeks to reduce instability in technology for communication and to develop an entirely new sort of renewable "fuel" source.


Casavaria's second prototyps Discursive Community is now online and looking for membership. Visit DHARMA today, to learn more....


Visit VERB, Casavaria's basic design prototype for a digital discursive community. Once built, such communities would also include private mailing lists, available to members in varying degrees of access, discussion pages, calendars and other visual and informative media.

For information about the pricing of basic web-design services, and for sample designs, visit our Web Design page.

Digital Document Design & Formatting
» PDF, eBook Coursepacks, Syllabi & Supplementary Material

Digital documents, such as Microsoft's LIT-format eBooks and Adobe's PDF files enable a new level of information sharing among interested parties, and can facilitate classroom preparedness, through portability of coursepacks, syllabi, and other textual media.

Creative Writing through Casavaria Publishing

Through affiliation with Casavaria's digital community services, individual professors or universities themselves can promote creative writing among their students. The reason for doing this goes far beyond a devotion to the study of the humanities or of promoting learning in the fine arts. When a person becomes engaged in creating something expressive, meaningful, and unique, a special part of the human spirit is tapped into.

The student who becomes interested in the quality of an inventive piece of writing begins to better comprehend, appreciate and take interest in the educational process itself. Professors and institutions can select from among the writings of their students and publish the best work to a special forum, where students will learn about the expressive quality of their language, the effect it has on those who read it, and the value inherent in cultivating a talent for writing.

The interests of promoting academic integrity are served by promoting creativity, because the educational process becomes personal, a product of and a tool for one's individual creative will. The student can see the direct results that learning has on improving the quality of a created work, and by extension takes more profound interest in ensuring that the academic process is honest and inviolate.

Sentido Travel

Casavaria Publishing, devoted to promoting cultural exchange and to amassing a chronicle of that exchange, will soon begin compiling travel narratives, photo galleries, essays, and cultural information, in order to create an online environment which through literary, artistic, historical and academic vision, will help to enrich the experience of travelers of all persuasions.

This service can be customized to suit the educational purposes of a given course, professor, or institution, and to promote student interest in the exploration and study of other cultures and languages.

Clásicos Linkgua
» Classics of the Spanish language through Linkgua.com

Procedural Policy on Academic Integrity

The use of any information for academic study, whether in Casavaria's pages or in the context of classwork, must abide by laws of copyright, fair use, and by the fundamental ethical standards implied by the academic process itself.

Casavaria aspires not only to provide access to information and communities where research and creative work can be shared and critiqued, but also to instill in the use of digital media the basic principles of academic integrity. These, succinctly, are as follows:

  1. Citation & Fair Use
    All phrases drawn from the work of others, whether verbatim or in paraphrase, must be visibly and accurately cited according to accepted standards. As such, no user, student or professor, shall in any way attempt to use the work of others under his or her own name.
  2. Truthfulness/Substantiation of Claims
    Due to the implied wisdom of professional research, any claims of scientific fact or veracity must in good faith be based on some substantiating evidence or honest critical examination of materials studied.
  3. Viewing Casavaria Resources
    All users must treat information shared or discovered through Casavaria's pages as printed or published material, subject to the same standards of authorship, citation and fair use. Any attempt to use another individual's words as one's own is illegal and strictly forbidden.
  4. Creative Application
    According to Casavaria's Integrated Academics philosophy, the creative application of studied knowledge is a necessary and beneficial part of the academic process. Individuals are encouraged to use their learning in new and experimental ways, but always in keeping with Academic Integrity guidelines.
  5. Sincere Knowledge
    True learning requires a deep, broadly intuited comprehension of materials being studied. The rote learning of facts is only one part of this process. For the sake of each individual's long-term benefit, every academic participant in Casavaria's University Services should be engaged in processing what is researched and integrating the resulting knowledge into a lifelong intellectual pursuit.
  6. Insitutional Primacy
    The rules governing Academic Integrity set forth by your institution, when they go beyond Casavaria's restrictions, must be adhered to during any engagement with Casavaria's University Services.

Further Information

Contact

If you or your institution are interested in Casavaria's University Services, e-mail the editors at: editors@casavaria.com

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EXERCISES FROM OUR LITERARY WORKSHOP
"Numbering sands"
William Shakespeare writes in Richard II "The task he undertakes is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry..." His meaning is that a given task is near to impossible; it is possible to write some beautiful and glimmering prose or verse by examining ways in which people persist in their attempts to achieve immensely complicated or seemingly unreasonable dreams...
Politics of the Apocryphal, or Unsaid
Explore themes that are difficult to express or to unfold in language, the political effect of those themes which escape description; treat the unspoken as an expression of complex psychological anxieties, not necessarily as points of controversy...
WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge :: What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...

Casavaria celebra el cuarto centenario de la novela El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, con una edición de la primera parte (primavera 2005) y otra de la segunda parte (primavera 2006)...

Casavaria was represented at the book fair lining Barcelona's entire city center on 23 April 2006, in collaboration with Linkgua; the day is known as the Day of the Book and coincides with the feast day of St Jordi, the city's patron saint.

ILLUSION OF THE DEFINITE & INVASIVE 'OTHER'
The push to establish a single national language can only be sustained on the basis of a number of false premises, all of which work against the interests of both a democratic society and American tradition itself.
LA DUDA, EL MISTERIO Y EL VÉRTIGO
En la duda, hay peligros, pero en la duda, también nace la fe. La duda existe, tiene que existir, porque el intelecto humano no puede tenerlo todo siempre arreglado y categorizado; nos reduce la posibilidad de comprensión infinita el hecho de estar obligados a vivir en el tiempo...

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LINKGUA: CLÁSICOS
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UN SECURITY COUNCIL ORDERS 26,000 PEACEKEEPERS FOR DARFUR, LARGEST MISSION IN WORLD
1 August 2007 :: Darfur, beset by years of bloody internecine violence, with the Khartoum-backed janjaweed militia killing civilians in numbers the US government has officially declared to be genocide. For years, human rights groups have pleaded with the international community to intervene, with or without the support of the Khartoum government. Now, the UN Security Council has ordered the world's largest peacekeeping mission to secure Darfur.

Sentido.tv is Casavaria's global news source, featuring political and cultural news and media-analysis.

Sentido.tv also provides travel-related information, literature (classic, original), reviews and listings...

Sentido.tv launched its embedded video service in February 2007; footage is linked to related news articles and historical profiles; categories include ecology, elections, historical events, political repression, indigenous cultures, and more...

4 MILLION KILLED IN DR CONGO SINCE 1998
12 February 2006 :: Ongoing armed conflict in D.R. Congo has taken estimated 4 million lives since 1998. The Lancet says 36,000 people per month dying from armed conflict, disease and malnutrition.
Go back in time! Broadsheet
the free news archive for Sentido.tv, showing all news articles published there to date, organized by year.


PHILIPPINES: 'AROMA, LIGHT, COLOR, SONG'
CONTRALUZ: CONTRAST IN MINUTIA
FEAR ENDANGERS BY DECEIVING
OUR COLLECTIVE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE
EL PODER LEGÍTIMO NO PUEDE APOYARSE EN EL EJERCICIO DESNUDO DE LA FUERZA
LOS EVANGELIOS APÓCRIFOS
NOVEDADES INELUDIBLES
'EL GRAN FILÓSOFO AMERICANO HA MUERTO'

Vol. 3, No. 1. :: FERTILITY
What role does the idea of fertility play in our cultural legacy, in our personal relationships, in our political culture, our agricultural trials, the poetry of our private sphere? In this edition, Silva explores, indirectly, through literature, metaphor and science, the value inherent in fertility, as a phenomenon of experience and a root of life...
Vol. 2, No. 2. :: THIRST & BRINE
Poetry on the subject of appetite and longing, the balance of what exists and what is desired, an hommage to the poet Pablo Neruda, featured poets of Chile and analysis of the work of Jorge Teillier, poet of limits and the hearth...

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ONSRA: TO LOVE FOR THE LAST TIME...
:: Can love as a consummate experience, a definitive and long-standing engagement exist in today's world of fragmented and hurried communication?
:: ONSRA: palabra boro que significa 'amar por última vez'... la aplicamos al mundo de hoy, si en los ritmos, en los ritos y cotidianeidades del día, es posible saber que un amor es el que te llenará o te abrigará o te ocupará de por vida...

GETTING THERE (PER A ARRIBAR)
:: Visual artwork by new and established artists from South Korea, to be staged as a major cultural event, with satellite gallery showings, works for sale, commissions available.
:: Barcelona, Fall 2007

LA VITA È BELLA!
:: Celebrating details that make even the mundane a realm of fascination and enjoyment, to show that even in difficult circumstances, the human world is resilient, hopeful, optimistic in unsuspected ways...
:: Barcelona, Sept.-Oct. '07

SUPERÁVIT (SURPLUS ENERGY)
:: Art, literature, analysis: exhibit aims to open discussion into problem of excesses of energy created by modern convenience, technology, problematic ways we choose to dispose of that energy...
:: Barcelona, Oct.-Nov. '07

L'ACCÉS (CULTURE OF ACCESS)
:: Exhibition on themes relating to the emerging culture of access, where passwords, identification and biometrics seem to be filling in for trust and character...
:: Barcelona, Nov.-Dec. '07