29th July-3rd August: Join The Fun: Understand The Thinking, The Making, the Doing Behind This New Olympic Level Sport: Nice Energy And The Products Are Very Different…

Look at all the landscapes of Nottingham and think about how the superheroes of culture here are leaping over the traffic jams of inequalities and changing things for the better. Think of the partnerships and collaborations in Nottingham that are thinking hard about the way we plan, build, place make, buy, sell, learn, converse, grow, […]

Understanding The Future Of Work Through Looking Again At The Histories Under Our Noses…Reading People…Respecting People…Learning Without End…

Featured image and above: What Makes A Good Work City and the beautiful cover of the NTU Civic Exchange provocation: Laying The Foundations of A Good Work City We’re all living inside social networks, whether they’re on or offline: we’re also seeing the result of networks in great contrasts in Nottingham: a big gap between […]

What Is The Fourth Industrial Revolution? How Can It Be Understood Locally?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (featured image and above) uses technologies to manufacture, distribute, sell and recycle but needs to be understood as the way we can create more relevant, sensible and harmonious products. We need to talk about what we know about it, what we think it is more, in the pub, the shop, at work, […]

Ideas, Thought And Culture In Nottingham: How Brilliant Research Will Really Change Things For More People, More Of The Time: -If They Know About It And Feel They Can Participate…

Featured Image and above: We Came To America and Cotton Club Faith Ringgold Mosaics are beautiful: they can be used to represent or misrepresent the world around us or they can fragment understanding if we ever forget they’re only part of the environment, part of the picture, part of the culture around us. At […]

The Problem For All Political Parties Is Really To Do With Their Structures: Third Party Management Of Their Membership Is Just Like The Post War Old Fashioned Gatekeeping Of Class, Race, Age And Gender….(We Don’t Really Represent Everybody Properly)

Featured image: Visual Capitalist: What The Big Data companies Have On You We need better representation of more people, more of the time. And when we create tools to help effect difference and change as well as the means to track and surveil all kinds of crime then we’ll understand that the problems of ethics […]

signsofanopencity: How Artist John Newling Forsaw A Kinder, More Generous Future….Opening The Way To Something New…

Featured Image: Artist of what’s below, beneath and above us, John Newling There’s a relationship between the imagination and the future, what’s coming, that we dream, that we need to cherish. I thought about this when I noticed a connection between the building work in progress by J Tomlinson and others in the refurbishment and […]

Mowing Pastures Green: Nottingham’s Best Kept Secret….Great People Offering Gardening Services At The Right Price

Featured Image: Garden Clearance and Maintenance Company Mowing Pastures Green company logo Donald Trump has created and is remembered for all kinds of words and phrases: yuge, bigly, believe me, we/they, great (as in I will build a great wall), incredible, fake news, tremendous, a lot of money…. You probably wouldn’t want him looking after your […]