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Motto | Ethics, Æsthetics, Ecology, Education |
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Founder(s) | Anne-Marie Oliver Barry Sanders |
Mission | "The OICR fosters the work of thinkers and makers devoted to tackling contemporary challenges in new and innovative ways—scholars, theorists, journalists, documentarians, social-justice advocates, artists, writers, and poets." [1] |
Location | 4232 Southeast Hawthorne Blvd. , , , |
Coordinates | 45°30′42.8″N122°37′7.7″W / 45.511889°N 122.618806°W |
Website | http://www.oicr-e4.org/ |
The Oregon Institute for Creative Research: E4 is a school and non-profit organization located in Portland, Oregon. [2] [3] [4]
The Oregon Institute for Creative Research: E4 (OICR) is a platform created to foster the development of new models for theory and practice, research and critique, art and intervention, representation and verification.
Together students and researchers work on major contemporary questions at the interstices of Ethics, Æsthetics, Ecology, Education. It is also a project incubator for actuating optimal futures in the face of massive global change, political polarization, and environmental catastrophe. OICR fosters the work of scholars, theorists, researchers, journalists, documentarians, filmmakers, social-justice advocates, artists, writers, and poets devoted to tackling social, psychological, and ecological problems in new and innovative ways. [5]
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