Compensating for loss
We need to think more ecologically about compensating for loss. Much environmental and cultural heritage is being lost but somehow, because it is often virtually reproduced and we’re surrounded by […]
We need to think more ecologically about compensating for loss. Much environmental and cultural heritage is being lost but somehow, because it is often virtually reproduced and we’re surrounded by […]
At the end of April 2013, Maria Miller gave her first speech after 7 months in the role as Minister for Culture. In this, she was adamant that the Cultural […]
Image: The Room for London on top of the South Bank Centre. Ironic because it is an elite space for invited performers and paying guests, yet also connotes a future […]
Photo from hoardings around development of new Tate Modern building. “We are made wise not by recollection of our past but by the responsibility for our future” George Bernard Shaw […]
Personal circumstances conspired to stop me attending the Happy Museum symposium. One thing keeping me at home was a visit from the Home Education Inspector, which was unmissable really. (We […]
Originally posted December 2010 This post is a response to a lively thread on the Museums Computer Group e-list about the Cost of Sales, which was sparked by a Twitter chat about […]
This was originally posted in February 2010. Since then we’ve seen major cuts to the cultural sector, reducing the capacity of many arts organisations supporting environmental sustainability. In response to […]
Originally posted 2006: Several more recent posts have extended my thinking on this topic, in particular thinking about use of terms ‘arts’, ‘culture’, ‘heritage’ and ‘creative industries’ in the cultural […]