What’s older – using words or reading pictures? It’s the latter, of course, as advertisers well know. Our visual circuitry is old, really old. Neuroscience has now filled in the gaps that Madmen have intuitively exploited. READ MORE
“Creativity is individual, and it is social,” state the authors of a paper delivered at the inaugural Collective Intelligence Conference held at MIT in April 2012. READ MORE
Pakistani artist Nusheen Saeed has created artworks depicting women as luggage. The cowered foetal forms Saeed renders as sculpture exude a disturbing eloquence. READ MORE
Originally built in 1931 to commemorate the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during World War I, India Gate in New Delhi soon came to symbolise the soaring hopes of the newly independent Indian nation after 1947. READ MORE
I like working with transitions of all kinds – new structures, services, systems. When things are in flux, new possibilities arise. READ MORE
In 2010, the UK government announced a swathe of public service cost cutting measures. These included the proposed closure of up to ten per cent or 450 public libraries READ MORE
When the University of Adelaide’s Hub Central opened last September, students found the doors open at 7.00 in the morning, and by 10.00 the new learning hub was packed. READ MORE