This Tuesday night, 7/5 at the Windup Space, we’ll be holding a focus group of people who have become interested in WhoWeAm. The event is part of the D:Center’s monthly Design Conversations series. We’ll be showing a few short films and getting peoples thoughts and feedback about WhoWeAm: what it’s saying, where it’s going, and [...]
Tags: art, culture, issues, philosophy, science, values, whoweam, wisdom
The Your Input page of WhoWeAm gives you a place to upload images of things you might see everyday in the US, that make a person want to ask: what kind of culture would produce such a thing? Why is it so important to understand our culture? Because if you are interested in social change—in [...]
Yesterday, I heard columnist David Brooks of the New York Times talking about his new book, The Social Animal. He says his whole perspective as a journalist has changed. He now sees the policymaking—the human decision-making he’s been covering for decades very differently than he did before.
Tags: behavior, culture, issues, philosophy, Politics, whoweam, wisdom
So, over the past month I’ve been asked to participate in discussions about creativity and innovation. Arts educators, those involved in interdisciplinary programs and even in high-level art/science think tanks, are exploring creativity and how to teach it, and they are looking at all the ways art and science can come together. They are working [...]
THIS IS AN OPEN CALL TO PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS: We’re looking for images of the world you see around you everyday. We want photos of artifacts that raise questions about the culture that produced them—that arranged them, that built/manufactured/installed and left them. The search will be ongoing. Images you send may end [...]
Tags: aesthetics, art, culture, Environment, issues, philosophy, values, whoweam
With this new post, we’re—just looking at the odd contrasts you can find on a short bike ride around the city. What do they reveal about us? It’s a little meditative…I’m just feeling my way at this point…just observing… If you are new here, you’ll want to get an idea of what the blog is [...]
Maybe we’re not who we think we are. I’m not going to be able to avoid politics on this site but my goal is to fly at 40 thousand feet and not dig into specific topics much if at all. So, what do we make of a country whose center elects a left-leaning president for [...]
Still, I say go ahead and play the video: An artist’s perspective on something like the environment should be, well, other. I am not alone in this. Check out some work on the environment by artists John Sturgeon & Christina Hung, called At Low Tide. Also, a new book that includes that and other works, [...]
Tags: car rants, Environment, issues
