Ten trends to watch in the coming year
A great summary from The Economist’s The World Ahead. Other content can be accessed by registering but you don’t need to subscribe.
Collective Futures
In 2022 the RSA began a global research project exploring how creative collaboration could shape better futures. Lots of interesting content for curious people looking to make a difference.
Going Green: online conference 8th March 2023
An upcoming event from Directory of Social Change.
Join us as we’re bringing together charities at various stages of their sustainability journey to discuss and explore how we can all do better on this vital issue, no matter where we currently stand.
Open Borders: the science and ethics of immigration
American based but still food for thought. Great use of graphic nonfiction.
In their new graphic nonfiction book Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, authors Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith turn the heated public debate over immigration on its head by proposing a radical and controversial solution: open borders.
Two million prints
To celebrate the completion of a major digitisation project the Department of Prints and Drawings at The British Museum has created a beautiful in person exhibition that runs until 22 January 2023.
How does artistry of and at the border change its impact on individuals?
Fascinating exploration of art on border walls.
Walls are a visible form of control; but art is also a visible form of rebellion. Art on some of these border walls resignifies the meaning. But they can’t change the purpose, except for, perhaps, making them also meeting points of conversations about change and places of mourning.