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Values make happy - here's how to teach them

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19 Feb 2009

I’ve just listened to Lord Layard talk about children and happiness – the results of his report published recently.
The significance of a plastic bag

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13 Feb 2009

One of this week’s pleasures – pleasure with a big kick in its tail – was opening the October Gallery’s exhibition of work by Chinese artist Huang Xu, entitled Fragments. Big photographic works featuring plastic bags, tattered and torn and beautiful and fragile. For me these are warnings - plastic bags as a collective memento mori and curiously reminiscent of Dutch seventeenth century paintings of flowers. I’ll never look at a plastic bag in quite the same way. I know they were banned many years ago in Rwanda. How shameful is that? A country recently torn apart and they can think about the environment. And we seem to find that so terribly difficult.
The importance of judgement

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12 Feb 2009

My leg is somewhat like the chair I sit in: they are both constituted by atomic particles; they both occupy space-time; they are both to the East of Ireland. How interesting are these similarities? Not very.
7 ways of looking at Altermodernism

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10 Feb 2009

WILLIAM SHAW: Taking a jaunt around some of the discussions thrown up by Nicolas Bourriaud's Altermodern manifesto and exhibition at Tate Britain I found myself constructing a kind of Beaufort Scale of critical responses:
Altermodernism at Tate Britain

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07 Feb 2009

Off Voice Fly Tip by Bob and Roberta Smith 2009
From the RSA to the RCA

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05 Feb 2009

Just a quick post to say that, after a tip-off from a colleague, this evening I dropped in to the Royal College of Art's interim show. Running from the 5th to the 11th February, the show features work from the RCA's Architecture, Innovation Design Engineering (used to be Industrial Design Engineering), Design Interactions, Printmaking and Animation students.
The Element

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05 Feb 2009

Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised leader in the development of creativity and innovation.
Man Hands On Happiness To Man...

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05 Feb 2009

... As the poet nearly said. What he actually said was "misery", of course, but Monday's Children's Society report, 'A Good Childhood' , while full of misery, was also a reminder that how we interact and why we do it has the power to transform our lives - for good or bad.
Meso Soup

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04 Feb 2009

Steve Broome
The recession and social change

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04 Feb 2009

Matthew Taylor raises an interesting question on his blog: Do we ever learn from crises in history? Or do we just lurch from too much of one socio-economic attitude to too much of another (from excessive individualism to excessive egalitarianism, say)? He then connects this to the idea of a good society: If the recession is an opportunity to change things for the better, is this change just a lurch from the previous ‘anchoring orientation’ we want to replace, to its opposite (which will turn out to be just as one-sided and problematic down the line)? Or are we learning from the onesidedness of the past?

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Latest thinking

Values make happy - here's how to teach them

The significance of a plastic bag

The importance of judgement

7 ways of looking at Altermodernism

Altermodernism at Tate Britain

From the RSA to the RCA

The Element

Man Hands On Happiness To Man...

Meso Soup

The recession and social change