Selection Box: Friday 6th November 2020

Unwritten rules

Liz Fosselin and Mollie West Duffy talk about the power of making explicit the unwritten rules that determine ‘how things are done around here’ and suggest working together to create lists using ‘It’s okay to …’.

Practices for productive teams

Thomas Seager offers some new ideas for how small creative teams can work productively together in today’s changed and unpredictable world

  1. Do what’s important
  2. Keep the team informed
  3. Make less work for others
  4. Keep your word
  5. Just keep going

Art and love

Powerful post from Francois Matarosso on the eve of the lockdown in France about the work of Portuguese music organisation SAMP

Because putting music in people’s lives is more important than putting musicians on stage

Dismantling ‘Hard to Reach’

A very thought provoking piece from Mind about the language we use and the perspectives it conveys. The piece encourages us to take responsibility, if services are not connecting with the people who may most need them it is about the service not the communities.

The term ‘hard to reach’ is quite stigmatising and diminishing. If we’re hard to reach, it suggests we’re the problem

Experiments in Feral Futuring

I just couldn’t resist an article titled ‘Feral Futuring’! A stimulating piece about how we now think about the future and whose voices should be included. Drawn from a series of online meetings where participants were allowed to let their minds wander.

 And, while unfamiliar, these feral tools are deeply uncontroversial: acknowledging vulnerability, collective listening, nonrivalrous collaboration, and dreaming at the edges of im/possibility.

Experiments in Feral Futuring

Letting Go: art with the element of chance

A great set of inspiration and activities suitable for all ages from MoMA. There is something really important for me about creative play at the moment.

As many of us learn to live with uncertainty, we can take inspiration from artists who play with the element of chance.