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Category: This changes everything

18 May 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

This Walden spring

Europeans have been lucky that the lockdown happened in their Spring. Three months ago, it would have been unrelieved darkness,

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14 May 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

The Living Declaration

‘This Is Not For You’ Graeae, 2018 As the public health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic continues, more and

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12 May 2020 This changes everything

The privatisation of risk

When I began working in community arts, at the beginning of the 1980s, I was taught to consider the risks

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10 May 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

The Dreamtime

Tomorrow, France will begin to ease its lockdown, very tentatively and in varying degrees according to the local rate of

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5 May 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Peak culture

Arts Council England (ACE) has now closed its first two emergency funds, worth £70 million, for individuals and for organisations

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30 April 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

The gift of last resort

It’s been a matter of weeks – six in France, five in the UK, more in Italy and Spain. Such

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27 April 2020 For itself / This changes everything

Worn-out shoes

In the autumn of 1945, in the broken months after the end of the Second World War, Natalia Ginzburg was

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26 April 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Bruno Latour’s questions

Bruno Latour (b. 1946) is a French scientist and philosopher who has been thinking about climate change and resource depletion

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23 April 2020 This changes everything

What future for theatres?

Yesterday, I had a long conversation with a friend who works at a great European opera house. It’s been shut

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19 April 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

My brave face

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it

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François Matarasso

François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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