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 […]
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 […]
