Major report on workforce diversity out: the Creative Majority Report
This new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity has been written by Natalie Wreyford, Dave O’Brien and Tamsyn Dent. 27 policy recommendations on ambition, allyship, accessibility, adaptability and accountability. A must read.
Personal action on climate change
The Behavioural Insights Team have just launched a new online tool to help people lower their carbon emissions. It is simple to use and generates ideas for clear actions.
Making learning a part of your day
‘In our increasingly “squiggly” careers, where people change roles more frequently and fluidly and develop in different directions, the ability to unlearn, learn, and relearn is vital for long-term success.’
Lots of useful tips in this article for how to make learning part of your working day. I particularly liked the idea of monthly curiosity coffees with someone you don’t know.
Endings for Beginnings
A subject close to my heart, we pay so much attention to beginnings but for all sorts of reasons often neglect endings.
Endings for Beginnings is a hub of resources to support leaders and their organisations to start conversations about brighter beginnings and healthier organisations, facilitated by better attending to endings.
Anonymous was a woman
The quotations here are grouped in two categories: the misattributed and the forgotten. Within each category, they are listed chronologically. And after the lists, I offer one more surprise. As it turns out, there have often been anonymous women behind the enterprise of quotation collecting itself—even behind the most iconic male name.
Machine Hallucinations: Nature Dreams
As many of you will know digital practice, machine learning and the possibility of machine consciousness has become a bit of an obsession.
MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS is an ongoing exploration of data aesthetics based on collective visual memories of space, nature, and urban environments. Since the inception of the project during his 2016 during Google AMI Residency, Anadol has been utilizing machine intelligence as a collaborator to human consciousness, specifically DCGAN, PGAN and StyleGAN algorithms trained on these vast datasets to reveal unrecognized layers of our external realities.