Featured image: The DEC NTU’s enterprise centre: Martine Hamilton Knight Dryden Enterprise Centre is the DEC. Designed by the team at Evans Vettori see Architect’s Journal article. Nottingham Trent University’s newest building on Dryden Street (Evans Vettori modernised the Waverley building in the city 1997 and the heart of the campus at Clifton and then Brackenhurst campus reception centre). Built […]

When you consider a place like Nottingham it’s full of locked down potential, it’s full of success and failure sitting together on the tram, in offices, in coffee bars, in doctor’s/dentist’s surgeries, shops, walking through the streets, day and night. Yet, if you look at Illustrator Becky Riley’s rebranding of the neighbourhoods of Nottingham in […]

Going to Dance4 Tuesday 15th March Theo Clinkard Workshop  I normally work on an employed/self employed basis and am always looking to develop community/business opportunities and links. When I was furloughed from my job as Achievement Coach with engineering apprentices at Nottingham College, in July 2020, I rose to the challenge of multiple temping: working across […]

The post second world war development of state funded services is often viewed as discrete, that they’re things that brought themselves into being for us, so right and just and true that we imagine that when they were established that they were achieved because we have a democracy, because everyone voted and the political and legal system responded to the franchise. Seventy five […]

Seeing a university student at risk  of exploitation brought me up close to a personal awareness of the way the local economy in many ways mimics/mirrors/connects with larger exploitative supply chains across the world. Connecting and sharing local research with an understanding of regional, national, international stories should be delivered to everyone in society: stories about the whole world, new products, economies, culture, shared, valued […]

Above: John Mills Man and Van a simple, straightforward card As children we learn from parents, relatives, friends, people who are significant to us, to value and collect things, developing an eye for the unusual, the rare, the valuable, the useful that stays with us throughout life. Having a warm eye for objects, people, relationships connects […]

Above: If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane Newly published 49year old Stephen Walsh’s comment about his first book Shine/Variance on Radio 4’s Open Book is a great description of Mhairi Mcfarlane’s sixth novel that I read and really enjoyed yesterday. Mhairi McFarlane books: Last Night, If I Never Met You ,You Had Me […]

 encephalopathy (CTE). Rick Friedman /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Above: Bennet Omalu, doctor, physician, neuropathologist whose work to understand the impacts of sport related brain injury was portrayed in the 2015 film Concussion CONCUSSION -The Film was about how the pathologist paid his employer so he had time to research a hunch on the brain damage American footballer Mike […]

Featured image: From Ego to Eco: Royalty Free Stock Image Everyone knows that inclusion will change the world forever. It’s something we’ve never been able to do as the organisations, institutions we built after the second world war were hierarchical based on old colonial versions of race, class, gender and age. Even though war veterans, […]

Feaatured Image: Leyla McCall’s 2018 Album Capitalist Blues Above: The Ebb and Flow Of The Slave Trade: and links between Haiti and new Orleans… Leyla McCalla is a New York-born Haitian-American living in New Orleans, who sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Her parents were born in […]