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Frank Fischer at the Public Policy Network seminar
The Public Policy Network continues to debate at the interface between academe and the professions. Frank Fischer’s (author of Citizens, Experts and the Environment) seminar on citizen participation...
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The Complexity of Science and Innovation Policy – Danny Horling of the...
This debate was organised by University of Edinburgh and has great relevance for any sector where policy doesn’t seem to keep pace with developments in technology, production or distribution. Horlings...
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Why is it always about the screen?
Ben Templeton of Thoughtden made a thought provoking contribution to NESTA’s Digital Day in Edinburgh last week. The day gave us good examples from the English end of the scheme (video streaming to...
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Friends Theme
What on earth can Einstein’s ‘commonwealth of ideas’ or Woodrow-Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’, both steeped in an early C20th ideal of building respectful alliances, have to do with operating a business...
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Therapiness
Public art and hospital developments are a good match. Whether staff, patient or visitor, hospitals are sites that test us – the weariness of long stay, the drama of bad news, the weird sensory...
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Mirrorball & mìorbhail
Three of this year’s Turner Prize shortlist studied at Glasgow School of Art, prompting Moira Jeffrey...
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“The space between is the space where things change” is how Prof. Gary West introduced us to his liking for liminality and his pondering of how to give voice to Jock Duncan’s Scots language archives of...
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Drew Wylie’s session at last week’s ITAC3 conference was very enjoyable, not least because there were delegates from four different continents in the room so discussions had an element of surprise to...
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A few thoughts on cultural value and the land. An interesting week for discussions in Edinburgh that link to the cultural value of land. This prompted me to ask a group of human geographers for advice...
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I have been reading around a the topic of participatory arts, partially motivated by wondering what impact austerity politics has had. There has been a widespread wiping out of the professionals and...
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