Pinning down 2020
This year time has stretched out like elastic to make this the longest year in memory, yet seen from another angle has sprung back to make it feel as short […]
Future-facing vocations
I’ve been thinking about how the education system – formal and informal – needs to seriously rethink how to prepare young people for an increasingly uncertain future. It’s been clear […]
Mapping the Future with 3 Lenses
I’m founding director of Flow Associates and I want to share this comprehensive piece of work I’ve done with Flow, to help cultural and educational organisations in the UK plan for an uncertain […]
Culture Takes Action
If it wasn’t the moment 10, 20 or 30 years ago, this is the moment that #CultureTakesAction This is a hashtag of Culture Declares Emergency that I, and Climate Museum […]
Indigeneity is complex
This is a rough thinking aloud piece. It’s thinking in response to two familiar calls that I hear: “We must learn from and give voice to indigenous people.” “We are […]
Drawing in an Earth crisis
This month is the Big Draw (the world’s largest drawing festival) and this year it has a focus on climate change. It’s the Big Green Draw. In Climate Museum UK, […]
Explaining Possitopia
I’ve been talking about Possitopian approaches to the future for a few years now. However, it is sometimes misinterpreted, for example with people mispronouncing it ‘Positopia’, assuming it means positive […]
Letter to Power
This is my response to the call by Culture Declares Emergency and Letters to the Earth to write #LetterstoPower in which everyone is invited to write, share and perform letters […]
Lyrical movement
I want to share my movement practice which I’ve been doing for the past month. I’d been bored with yoga and not done it properly for a year. I like […]
‘The Possible Path’ not ‘Build Back Better’
“The ship was at sea, far from the shore. It was not a good ship, but it was the ship folks knew. Some said for decades that the ship was […]
