Gentelligence
Multi-generational working is becoming a common theme in our work and these blogs by Megan Gerhardt are good to think with.
Material World
A fascinating and very readable book by journalist Ed Conway on six raw materials that shape our world: sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium.
The Radical Democratic Museum
Not a new discussion but it keeps reappearing in our various threads. Still gives food for thought. Nora Sternfield asks:
Can the museum become a space of assembly that allows us to deal with what has happened in the past, to negotiate what this means for the present, and to imagine a future that is more than the mere extension of the present?
The time equivalent of an emergency fund
Good advice that I suspect we all know yet still find it hard to achieve.
Genetic automata, Wellcome Collection
An exhibition of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy to make you think; exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry
https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/ZAW0PxQAACcG-pX8
Books on Books
As a lover of typography and artists books these are little gems. The whole site is a joy if you haven’t come across it before.