Nikos Theodosakis: Mattering
Let’s Turn Schools Into Studios. The InStill Life project invites students to explore and participate in real world issues by learning about the food we eat. Students use science, history, mathematics, art, technology, language arts, social studies and other subject areas to explore the interconnectedness of learning and the relationships between themselves and others around […]
Jem Bendell: The Money Myth
Why is the whole world in debt? How can we end these crises? Jem Bendell uncovers the hidden cause of the financial crisis. The real crisis is in our monetary system – the way our money is created. The solution is to redesign the way money is created. This is the underlying reform required to […]
The Merchants of Menace
The flight plans of travellers everywhere have been perversely disrupted in a recent decision by Australia-based Qantas Airways to ground it’s aircraft around the globe. These actions typify what amounts to the paying public being used as collateral damage in the tussle between the Company and three worker Unions: TWU, AIPA and ALAEA.
Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from Paper
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
