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 […]
Culture in the Doughnut
Here are some ideas towards a presentation I’ll be doing in the Autumn. I’m sharing them here for your comments.
This is not a drill
…because it’s just an image …because it’s not the kind of drill meant by the phrase …because it’s an emergency, a Climate and Ecological Emergency, a collapse of our planet’s […]
Museums as First Responders
I’m at the We Are Museums conference in Katowice in Poland. The host, the Muzeum Slaskie, has been created out of the site of a disused coal mine. The old […]
Modern Fairies
I was away at the weekend in Dungworth near Sheffield, for a gathering with workshops and singing, linked to a research project called Modern Fairies. This was conceived by Fay […]
Devil in the patterns
We say the devil is in the detail, but we forget it’s also in the patterns. Solutions can be found by looking closely but also by zooming out in our […]
