Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture
Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian
Category: Talks
On not hanging around
Since the pandemic, and this lockdown life, I’ve been asked to speak in many webinars, for a wide range of
Mohan Rana: Cartographer of the Space Between
A few months ago, I had a call from Mohan Rana. His calls tend to come out of the blue:
People and places
The cultural dimension of places has become a common subject of policy, academic discourse and art projects. I don’t remember
Feeling at home
The democratic urgency of dialogue in a diverse world Notes for a speech at the Nordic Dialogues conference, in Oslo (Norway) on
Some thoughts on monitoring, evaluating and researching culture
Last week, I participated in a round table discussion organised by the Cultural Value Scoping Project at Tate Modern. The
Please don’t close the shutters
The view from 2003 Recent developments in my country, before and since the Referendum on 23 June 2016, have been very disturbing.
Making nothing happen: art and civil society in troubled times
This is the text of a talk given on 3 September 2016 in Berlin at an event to mark the fifth
Making ‘arts engagement’ a reality
English arts policy has been preoccupied recently with how to increase people’s engagement in the arts. Since most people already
Dancing in a shared world
The 2015 daCi World Congress is taking place this week in Copenhagen, bringing together over 700 young dancers for an
Parliament of Dreams 