Chris Goodall: Why Media Plurality Matters
You may think that the mass media that assails you every minute of the day from Facebook to Twitter to the BBC News site is giving you a diverse and plural sense of the world, its news, its current affairs and its opinions. Chris Goodall thinks there’s so much competing for our attention that the […]
Milenko Matanovic: Art as a Community Builder
Milenko Matanovic is a community builder and visual artist. He describes his journey from pure artist to facilitator, working with the betterment of the community in mind. Through his organisation, The Pomegranate Center he guides the conception and construction of open-air gathering places, involving the community in all phases of the project.
Peter Galison: Remember Us, Memorialising Nuclear Waste
Peter Galison is the Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. Nuclear waste is a topic none of us like to think about. He offers no pat solutions but does talk about some of the questions that it forces us to confront, some of the most difficult ethical questions we […]
Andrew Kooman: Connecting to Danger
What happens when we dare, as individuals, communities and societies to go to the dangerous places and open our eyes to human need, then reach out our hands with compassion? Andrew Kooman suggests a starting point is to connect individuals to stories, both real and imagined, that open our eyes and hearts and move our […]
Genevieve Bell: The Value of Boredom
We might think of being bored as a time when our brain is completely inactive, it turns out one’s brain is almost as active when bored as when not bored. Being bored is actually a time when your brain gets to reset itself and where your consciousness gets to reset itself too. Part of Genevieve […]
