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Was The Wave really the "turning point"?

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07 Dec 2009

Saturday's The Wave demo saw crowds of up to 50,000 people coming out onto the streets to demand a result from governments on climate change at Copenhagen. That's not a shabby number, and the organisers deserve praise for getting people out onto the streets in a season which has been unbelievably filthy.

Climate denialism and Žižek's fear of the future

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25 Nov 2009

Slavoj Žižek by Hendrik Speck

Ghost Forest by Angela Palmer, Trafalgar Square

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17 Nov 2009

Ghost Forest - London from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo.

Steve Waters' Contingency Plan and the Rubik's Cube of climate change

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12 Nov 2009

Resilience, one of the two plays that form The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters

Emma Ridgway on Gustav Metzger

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06 Nov 2009

Gustav Metzger with Jeremy Deller: June 5 2009, UN World Environment Day, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Five Reasons why you should care about social networks.

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04 Nov 2009

Jonathan Rowson

Sometimes you need to back up a little. I have spent most of the last few days trying to get my head round the intracacies of social network analysis, and I fear I am losing sight of the bigger picture.

Talking about prejudice

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28 Oct 2009

Mark Easton posts on talking about race – that it is very difficult to avoid insult engendered by using the wrong terminology. One of the implicit ideas here is that lots of well-meaning people are being tripped up by language and after one slight error branded bigots.

The two worlds of education discourse

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21 Oct 2009

Matthew Taylor

Why is there such a gulf in understanding between popular discourse and the way educationalists see the world? 

Are designers born or made?

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16 Oct 2009

I wasn't surprised when someone asked me this recently. I've argued for a re-distribution of design - or the tools and insights and processes that designers use - beyond the professionals for whom design was likely a vocation, to everyone else. So I must think designers are made not born. Let's see.