Creating, healing & learning at home
As a former home educator and as a researcher on online creativity & cultural learning, this pandemic has meant a huge number of requests for advice. There’s been a massive […]
We need to talk about tipping points
A tipping point is a threshold that, when exceeded, can lead to large changes in the state of the system. In the case of global climate disruption, these changes could […]
A perfect storm
It’s Friday 13th December, a dark day, literally and metaphorically. This is an attempt to account for what just happened, and also to give evidence for my belief that the […]
Analyse & Act: Cultural response to emergency
In this article Dougald Hine asks, in the context of the Climate & Ecological Emergency (or what our mutual friend Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard calls ‘the Enormity’), what would an Alcoholics […]
Cultural learning for the planet
This is an overview of some of my thoughts, tapping a few past articles and posts, about the role of Cultural Learning in the context of a Climate & Ecological […]
MARS framework
I’ve been thinking about how to express something that I’ve struggled with for years. I’ve annoyed people by saying that we (i.e. in cultural organisations) spend too much time and […]
Losing the Planet
The weather today is still, warm and muggy. I can hear and feel the blood pumping in my ears and eyes, and I feel dizzy. There doesn’t seem to be […]
Culture Declares Assembly
History was made (depending on your perspective) at the Roundhouse on Monday, with the Culture Declares Emergency Assembly. Culture Declares Emergency is a growing community of creative practitioners and organisations […]
ACE: Will its new strategy declare emergency?
On Monday, I’ll be at the Culture Declares Emergency Assembly at the Roundhouse, a big creative conversation about what Arts & Culture can do in response to the planetary emergency. […]
Stop and Start
This is more work in progress, towards a tool for Climate Museum UK. This might be a set of cards, for players to match and discuss. Players might also add […]
