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Universities will cease to exist when learning has degenerated into what we now call research and when their teaching has become mere instruction.

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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Knowledge is not the same as transformation. We are not primarily interested in what a student knows, but in what they have become because of what they know.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The future of art and design education cannot be built around software proficiency alone. Tools change. Platforms disappear. Professions evolve. What must remain is the ability to think, make, judge and adapt. The New Art School: chat.whatsapp.com/D4ZW3chTcgJF...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The purpose of an art school cannot simply be to help students produce better artefacts. It must also develop people capable of seeing, judging, making, questioning and acting independently. Frayling understood this decades before generative AI. heretakis.medium.com/prof-sir-chr...
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Prof. Sir Christopher Frayling and the Art School We Still Need
Research, craftsmanship, the hand and the mind, and why Frayling’s arguments about art and design education matter even more in the age of…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The art school is not a production line. We asks what we lose when deliverables, metrics and evidence begin to define education and why studio culture, making, uncertainty and human judgement matter more than ever. heretakis.medium.com/beyond-the-d... s
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Beyond the Deliverable: Reclaiming the Human Purpose of Design Education
I have spent enough years in art schools to know that some of the most important things that happen in them are almost impossible to…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The question is not analogue versus digital. It is much more useful: when a technology replaces a process, what knowledge disappears with that process? heretakis.medium.com/why-would-i-...
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Why Would I Want to Bypass the Part I Love? Thomas Bangalter and the Creative Process After AI
Thomas Bangalter spent almost thirty years exploring what technology could make possible. Then, after Daft Punk ended, he began asking a…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What does the city of the future look like when 300+ students from 100+ universities are given 48 hours to imagine it? A remarkable collaboration between Ars Electronica and the 2026 Design Day Marathon. Beijing × Linz. September 11–12. hackathon.ars.electronica.art/en/partner-h...
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Parallel hackathon: Beijing · Linz // AI Hackathon — Ars Electronica Festival 2026
A partner event of the AI Hackathon, co-organized by Ars Electronica together with the 2026 Design Day Marathon International Creative Week in Beijing.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Education should do more than prepare people to fit into the world as it is. It should help them imagine what the world could become. The New Art School and the Recovery of Human Possibility heretakis.medium.com/the-new-art-...
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The New Art School and the Recovery of Human Possibility (v2.0)
The deepest problem in education is not technology, funding or employability. It is the limited way in which we have come to understand…
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LeeSean 立翔 @leesean.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"The crisis in education is not a lack of rigour — it’s a lack of courage" - Education’s Imagination Crisis: Why We Need Art Schools for the Mind by Lefteris Heretakis RCA on Medium: heretakis.medium.com/educations-i...
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Education’s Imagination Crisis: Why We Need Art Schools for the Mind
When artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, declared, “All schools should be art schools,” his words were not a call…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Design needs more spaces where disciplines collide and ideas are made. Design Marathon × Ars Electronica Campus offers exactly that: 48 hours of international collaboration/experimentation/rapid prototyping around some of the defining questions of our time. Deadline: 30 August bift.mike-x.com/Th37S
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Making is not simply the execution of thinking. A drawing changes the idea. A material resists. A mistake redirects the work. A conversation changes what you see. Making is thinking in action. heretakis.medium.com/making-as-kn...
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Making as Knowing: Brian S. Dixon and The New Art School
Brian S. Dixon’s Design, Philosophy and Making Things Happen is ostensibly a book about the epistemology of design research. From the…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Perhaps design education should begin with a very simple question: can we still teach students how to look? My conversation with Esen Karol on attention, AI, publishing and studio culture: heretakis.medium.com/joy-is-also-...
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Joy Is Also Content
Esen Karol and the Education of Attention
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“The difference between collaboration and subordination lies in the ability to refuse.” Can an art school reject the priorities of the institutions financing it? medium.com/@heretakis/w...
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When the Patron Becomes the Curriculum
Corporatism, Technology and the Future Art School
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Design awards matter when they do more than reward style. They matter when they help define values, raise standards and give visibility to work that serves humanity. medium.com/p/98f6432e8b...
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IAI GLOBAL DESIGN AWARD: Twenty Years of Design, Humanistic Spirit, and the Future of Creative…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Quentin Blake has unveiled a new mural ahead of the opening of the world’s largest space for #illustration. A beautiful reminder that drawing is not just image-making, but memory, place, history and public imagination. qbcentre.org.uk/journal/quen...
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Quentin Blake unveils new mural ahead of opening of world’s largest space for illustration | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Design education must prepare students for more than polished outcomes. It must teach them to think, question, make, collaborate and imagine futures that do not yet exist. Listen to our conversation with @danvlahos.bsky.social. www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In an age flooded by images but starved of attention, Hockney gave us a higher lesson: slow down, look properly, notice the light, respect the world. His work remains a school of vision. www.linkedin.com/pulse/david-...
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David Hockney Has Left the Studio, But Not the World
David Hockney has died, and with him goes one of the great witnesses of modern visual life. Yet it feels almost wrong to say that Hockney has gone, because his whole work was an argument against disap...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What does creativity actually demand of us? Curiosity. Patience. Difference. Attention. And the courage to think independently. My latest article explores these themes through a conversation with Graham Fink. heretakis.medium.com/graham-fink-...
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Graham Fink and the Discipline of Thinking Differently
A deep dive into creativity, education, and resisting mediocrity.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
New guests wanted for Design Education Talks. I am looking for thoughtful voices in design, education, creativity, AI, studio culture, ethics, professional practice and alternative models of learning. Get in touch here: linktr.ee/thenewartsch...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The future of design education is not more polished sameness. It is students learning to see from where they stand, speak from what they know and design with courage, context and consequence. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-m...
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From the Margins to the Centre: Kaleena Sales and the Rebuilding of Design Education
In The Art School Graduate podcast, Kaleena Sales speaks about culture, identity, HBCU education, design history, visual taste, and the urgent need to expand what design education considers legitimate...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The future of design education will not be built by institutions alone. It will be built by communities of educators, students, designers and thinkers who are willing to share, listen and support. Help keep Design Education Talks alive: www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/supp...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A poster is not just a poster. A brand is not just a brand. A classroom is not just a classroom. Everything is a field of relations. That is where design education must begin again. heretakis.medium.com/reality-is-n...
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Reality Is Not a Brief: Carlo Rovelli, Design Education and the Collapse of the Fixed World
Carlo Rovelli’s physics does not give design a new visual style. It gives design something far more dangerous: a new image of reality.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The danger is not technology. The danger is what technology removes before the student has had time to develop it: patience, failure, observation, judgement and responsibility. heretakis.medium.com/mirrorless-c...
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Mirrorless Cameras Accidentally Killed Photography.
The machine can make things sharper. It cannot teach us what is worth seeing.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#Design is not a static discipline. It moves between evidence, intuition, technology, ethics, culture and human need. In this episode, Dan Vlahos joins Design Education Talks to explore dynamic media, pedagogy and the future of design. www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Design schools must stop confusing software fluency with design intelligence. Drawing, typography, model making, photography, print, critique and history are not extras. They are the foundation. heretakis.medium.com/the-hand-ret...
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The Hand Returns: Apple, Craft and the Future of Design Education
Apple’s new confidence in craft, analogue skill and what design education must now recover.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The crisis in design education is not that students lack information. They are drowning in it. What they need is formation: drawing, observation, critique, material intelligence, visual ethics and the discipline to pause before sharing. heretakis.medium.com/the-new-visi...
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The New Vision and The New Art School
Trust, Seeing, and Formation in the Age of Synthetic Images
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The machine has not suddenly become a serious #designer in the fullest sense. It has, however, become capable of producing a range of outputs that many schools, studios, agencies and clients have been willing to accept as proof of #design competence. thenewartschool.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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The End of Administrative Comfort
The arrival of tools like Claude Design does not simply announce a new chapter in technology.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The future of design education will not be saved by better software alone. It will depend on whether we can still form people capable of judgement, discernment, courage, and vision in an age of automation. Our latest piece explores this in depth: heretakis.medium.com/beyond-autom...
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Beyond Automation, Beyond Expertise: Design Education and the Human Infrastructure of the Future.
“Great knowledge is wide and comprehensive; small knowledge is partial and restricted.”
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Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Absolutely. Cooperation depends on epistemic trust = the mutual belief that others are competent, benevolent, and working toward shared aims. Without that trust, collaboration becomes transactional and fragile. Any example of a school etc that builds epistemic trust and cooperation? #Learning
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Second Mountain: John McFaul’s Search for Purpose in #Design. www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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The Second Mountain: John McFaul’s Search for Purpose in Design - Design Education Talks
Today on Design Education Talks, we’re joined by John McFaul , Executive Creative Director, Brand Consultant, Educator, and one of those rare, restless creatives who has never quite fitted into the ne...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
His critique of university design education is specific, not cynical. He thinks institutions have prioritised facilitating independent thinking over teaching people how to actually make things. heretakis.medium.com/the-typograp...
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The Typography of Teaching
Fraser Mugridge on studio practice, independent education and why design is always a journey
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What happens when a packaging student turns up with a two-foot cube of solid plaster, painted black, with a ping-pong ball sealed somewhere inside it?https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-you-learn-language-can-say-anything-like-malcolm-grear-xhmce/?published=t
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First You Learn the Language, Then You Can Say Anything You Like: Malcolm Grear and the Graphic Design Education He Invented at RISD
Inspired from the interview you can listen to here Malcolm Grear and the education he never intended to give He promised his wife one year. One year in Providence, at a school he had barely heard of, ...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If the student has not cultivated taste, restraint, ethical awareness and long term thinking, then technology will simply accelerate mediocrity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/diamon...
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The Diamond Age and the Design of the Designer
There are novels that predict technology, and there are novels that diagnose civilisation. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age belongs firmly to the second category.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We made it to 100 episodes of Design Education Talks. And the guest from episode one is back to celebrate with us. Prof. @philcleaver on #design, #education, #ideas and why having fun is the most underrated career strategy there is. Listen now. www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ellen Lupton on what postmodernism got wrong: "We were rebelling against systems, against modernism and what got lost was methods." The pendulum swung from structure to freedom and the scaffolding that teaches people to think was removed. heretakis.medium.com/the-educatio...
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The Education We Deserve: Ellen Lupton on Typography, Teaching, and the Reinvention of Design
The Education We Deserve: Ellen Lupton on Typography, Teaching, and the Reinvention of Design Learning A Design Education Talks deep dive from The New Art School There is a line that sits at the …
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A thoughtful conversation with Tom Lynham. Writer, creative director and strategic communicator, Tom reflects on storytelling, brand thinking and meaningful communication across culture and organisations. For designers, educators and creative leaders. www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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Design Education Talks Ep. 94 - Tom Lynham - Design Education Talks
Tom Lynham is a writer and creative director who helps organisations around the world to communicate better. He works with startups, design consultancies, galleries, museums and companies such as Lego...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Why the New Art School Is Not a Reform but a Direction www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ne...
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Why the New Art School Is Not a Reform but a Direction
Leaving academia is often described as failure, burnout, or personal disillusionment. In reality, it is increasingly an act of lucidity.
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Beyond style, beyond modernism, beyond history. The Bauhaus manifesto is a blueprint for meaningful creative life.Full in-depth interpretation is now available here: heretakis.medium.com/the-bauhaus-...
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The Bauhaus Manifesto: Ideas and Structure of the State Bauhaus
Introduction: Why This Text Still Matters
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Lefteris Heretakis @heretakis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Drawing Excellence Framework: Redesigning the visual communication curriculum: restoring drawing as a core competency. heretakis.medium.com/the-drawing-...
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The Drawing Excellence Framework: Redesigning the visual communication curriculum: restoring…
Craft skills in the UK are in the same position historic buildings were a hundred years ago. The Guardian, 4/8/2017
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In this episode of Design Education Talks, we sit down with Brian Grimwood—the illustrator who helped redefine British illustration and founded the Central Illustration Agency. 🎧 Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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Design Education Talks: Brian Grimwood - The Illustrator Who Rewrote the Rules - Design Education Talks
As an illustration educator, few figures stand out as boldly, and as impactfully, as Brian Grimwood. His work is not merely a reflection of evolving visual trends; it is a catalyst for change that hel...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
James Grady: "Software is never the point. Tools change. Platforms rise and fall. What matters instead is curiosity, problem framing, and the ability to move laterally across domains..." listen more here: www.buzzsprout.com/1969986/epis...
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Art does not originate in description but in material engagement with the world. Education does not originate in texts but in transformation through practice. To treat these domains as fundamentally linguistic is to confuse representation…”  heretakis.medium.com/the-machine-...
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The Machine Did Not Arrive Too Early. Culture Arrived Too Late
A New Art School Critique of Harari on AI, Language, and Authority
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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The New Art School is about reclaiming education as a cultural, ethical, and human act rather than a purely transactional one. It challenges the idea that art and design exist mainly to serve marke…
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ruskin insisted that all true #education begins with attention: careful seeing, patient observation, and reverence for material and form. In #design terms, this means slowing down perception before accelerating production. heretakis.medium.com/design-educa...
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Design Education as a Living Social Force
Toward a New Art School for a Fractured World
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The New Art School @thenewartschool.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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