We Need To Build The People Who Will Build The Houses Who Will Then Live In Those Houses: Claude Hendrickson And Understanding The Values In Culture

Above: Claude (Hopper) Hendrickson in his role as a health, youth worker and housing self build activist, then as a very young man at the heart of his sound system and with Jeremy Corbyn at the labour conference 2019 Some people you meet have the same skills you see in the top chief execs, […]

Signsofanopencity: An October That Brings Re-Presentation For Everyone….

The end of the summer and throughout October are annual dates when we affirm, debate and challenge the world taken for granted around us and speak truth to power through political, social and historical discussion and debate. If you listen to what the parties aspire to then you’ll realise that we really need to connect […]

Get Inspired At Holme Pierrepont Our Watersports Centre: British Canoeing: Olympic Talent 2019 And Beyond…

Vision: To be the World Leading Olympic and Paralympic canoeing team, inspiring people to paddle. Above: Basic Strokes in a canoe Purpose: The purpose of the World Class Programme is to support athletes to be the best they can be with the aspiration of winning Olympic and Paralympic medals. Above: the 2019 World Spring Championships […]

Visualising Tess Wheatley: Honesty By Design: Help Your Project, Group, Product, Purpose, Reach More People, More Of The Time…

Like the amazing Issaka (that’s Jasmin, NTU Graphic Design 2016: bringing new line and colour to a project near you), pattern, graphic, surface and illustration designer, Tess Wheatley is a brilliant new force for aesthetic literacy: a great champion of surface, pattern, line and new product situated here, in Nottingham. She sees inspiration in everything: Tess […]

Cycle Or Electric: Adapt, Apply, Enhance: Redefining Human Mobility: Local Talent (4) Jack Chuang

Above: Proposal For A Mural by Nottingham university course award winning student Jack Chuang from Taiwan (and Shanghai!) 1.Best Final Year Individual Project on the BEng Product Design and Manufacture course 2019. 2. Head of Department Award, for being in the the top 10% of students in Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering this year. To me the way […]

‘What I Love About The Fire Fighters (At Grenfell) Was That They Weren’t Denying The Fact That They Needed Us To Communicate With Them: Because Where They Were They Couldn’t See What We Could see’: When Normal Relations Between People Are Resumed And We Stop Excusing Social Exclusion….

Featured Image: Release of Doves at Grenfell Memorial 15th June 2019 We live in a society that since the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 has discouraged people from different backgrounds communicating while at the same time eroding a sense of shared space, place, belonging and social mobility. The quote in the header comes from […]

Local Talent (4) Illustration By Bosley (That’s Laura): A New Way Of Story Telling: Out Of The Magic Of Shadows….

The importance of understanding and improving dubious, risky and life threatening supply chains around the way we work and live highlights why keeping Grenfell fresh in our minds and linking it in our hearts and history to the same types of supply chains that resulted in the coal slag heap behind an Aberfan primary school […]