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Proving ideas in a crisis

January 12, 2011
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It seems careless to think about creativity when friends and family in Brisbane are being evacuated in the face of rising floodwaters. It’s a crisis. But it’s also a showcase for good ideas. Like wearing dive boots. But a hundred other great things too.

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[Reading #7] Changing cities

December 20, 2010
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It’s clichéd to talk about more people living in cities than not, but it’s a milestone.  The way our cities work is changing too. We used to measure them every handful of years in a census, but increasingly we can keep much closer tabs through real time studies of the flow of people and information. So how does that change things?

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What do you think?

December 15, 2010

Are you finding this blog interesting? It’s been up and running three weeks – I’d hold out asking until a month, but that will be just about Christmas and I’m sure commenting on a blog will be the last thing on anyone’s mind. What with all the eggnog, Christmas songs and time off. So the [...]

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Review: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

December 12, 2010

Madeleine Preston lives in Potts Point. She paints, draws, illustrates, does printmaking, media art, sculptures, installations and public art: “Whatever medium or method works with the idea.” She’s been in 30-something group shows and made the beautifully nostalgic Darlinghurst Eats Its Young blog. She teaches art too. Madeleine comes up with ideas, and turns them [...]

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Digging Charles Jencks’ black hole garden

December 10, 2010

A black hole garden? Gravity is a law of nature. Electromagnetism, the four forces—those sort of things are nature and they underpin all of growing nature. And so a garden is a really interesting place to speculate on the ultimate forces of nature and laws of nature and constants, and that’s what I do with [...]

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