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30 December 2014 Thinking

A match in the darkness

‘A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance’ I’d never heard of Richard Feynman when I picked up a book of his in

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30 October 2013 Thinking

What has art ever done for science?

There’s a good post under this title at the Wellcome Trust blog—thanks Chris Fremantle—describing some of the ways that art

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7 July 2013 Research / Thinking

Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)

Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience…

6 January 2013 Thinking

For the good of the others

‘Inform, educate and entertain’ This week, Radio 4 has been broadcasting a series of 45-minute programmes by Melvyn Bragg under the title The

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14 August 2012 Asides

Memories worth having

Is it worth it  A new winter coat and shoes for the wife  And a bicycle on the boy’s birthday

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28 June 2012 Thinking

Science, stories and truth

Frances Ashcroft:  “I’m fascinated by this divorce of philosophy from science because I think that in a way we’re all

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19 April 2012 Thinking

‘Billy, Me & You’

Last autumn Nicola Streeten published her first comic book. Billy, Me & You is about a couple coming to terms

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3 February 2012 Asides

Pixelated death

Bad guys in movies used to come to sticky ends, in a bloody hammering of bullets or falling off tall

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20 January 2012 Evaluation

On ‘the very idea of measuring cultural value’

There is a new blog on the DCMS website by Claire Donovan, an academic at Brunel University who has been

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  • Principles of co-creation24 March 2023
  • MIAAW LIVE! Inaugural Event14 March 2023
  • Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project22 February 2023
  • Old Words #11 – ‘All in this together’6 January 2023
  • More carpenters than jackasses1 January 2023
  • Guest post: Arlene Goldbard on her new book16 December 2022
  • Old Words #10 – ‘Approximate Visions’2 December 2022
  • There exists a genuine mystery at the heart28 November 2022
  • Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing18 November 2022
  • A museum is a strange place13 November 2022
  • Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022
  • Old Words #9 – ‘Another Angle of Vision’4 November 2022

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    1. jennifer hinves on Principles of co-creation24 March 2023

      Brilliant project! Well done all the co-creators.

    2. François Matarasso on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing21 November 2022

      I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Fx

    3. fionahope on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing20 November 2022

      Thank you Francoise for this inspiring talk of Carol's Fiona and Mark xxxx

    4. anthonysargent0 on Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022

      What a beautifully made film - it really captures the dynamic of this kind of intense journey ...

    5. Rebecca Manson Jones on A time of endings31 October 2022

      Thank you for all the work you share here. Wishing you well. Pondering the Twitter deletion. Haven’t been there much…

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