What's Changing? - Slowness
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October 2020
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What's Changing? - Society
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12 October 2020
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October 2020
- EY argued that our social contracts have been on an unsustainable trajectory for years, thanks to rising income inequality and challenges such as climate change. COVID-19 has exacerbated inequality, further straining social contracts - but also boosting the motivation to strengthen them. Company leaders will be called on to help repair social contracts and address societal challenges.
July 2020
What's Changing? - Compassion
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September 2020
What's Changing? - Fear
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September 2020
What's Changing? - Time
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22 September 2020
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September 2020
- Everything we do as living organisms is dependent, in some capacity, on time. The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion. In a video, astrophysicist Michelle Thaller, science educator Bill Nye, author James Gleick, and neuroscientist Dean Buonomano discussed how the human brain perceives of the passage of time, the idea in theoretical physics of time as a fourth dimension, and the theory that space and time are interwoven. All the experts touch on issues of perception, definition, and experience.
October 2019
What's Changing? - Civility
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19 September 2020
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September 2020
What's Changing? - Consciousness
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September 2020
On Tales
A leading web curator noted that children’s books, especially classic ones with timeless wisdom for grown-ups, can be combined with minimalist posters that show complex stories or ideas in clean graphics.
A series of such hyper-minimalist takes on beloved children’s classics was created by designer Christian Jackson.
What's Changing? - Empathy
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May 2020
Imagining the world in miniature
If the world were a village of 100 people, what would it look like? Various answers have circulated around the internet for years, but a set of 20 posters provides a visual perspective on this fascinating hypothetical question.
Of Mice and Men - Redux?
10 years on from chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession is having - right now. The Great Depression Revisited? The clothes and the cars and the laptops suggest "not yet", but over the coming months, who knows?
Still, the blooming sunflower in the last shot is a touching piece of photojournalism, suggesting that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper put it, "through all destruction flies new dawn".
What's New? - Imagination
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Imagining new forms of currency
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18 April 2013
Does Bitcoin herald a revolution in how we will create, exchange and spend money? Launched in 2009 by an anonymous developer, Bitcoin saw a c.1300% spike in value since the beginning of 2013, before recent steep falls suggested it might be a bubble. The Atlantic noted that starting your own currency is "not as complicated as it sounds.
Imagining Rome reborn
What did ancient Rome look like in A.D. 320? Rome Reborn is an international initiative to answer this question and create a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first Christian churches were being built.
Imagining tapping the untapped potential...
...of civil society and the individuals within it. Perhaps this is a more hopeful way of addressing the current economic crisis than much of what we get through the mainstream media. If we listen more to the surviving members of the "make do and mend" generation that got through the 1930s, WWII and its bleak aftermath, maybe we can learn again not just self-sufficiency, but also a way of pulling together towards a common purpose?
Imagining the devil we know...
Is it a wrong approach, as claimed recently, to start with your favourite quality or value (freedom, equality, justice etc), and then try to imagine what a society would look like if it were arranged to maximise that quality?
Should we, instead, examine the political and cultural institutions we already have and work from there, as failure to do this might lead to incoherence and fantasy?
Not sure...just because most "-isms" are divisive and fail ultimately, should we really give up on all big ideas and hopes of breakthrough change in favour of sheer pragmatism?