Posts in CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Futuristic landfill vs spiritual beings, the mid-level knowledge worker, and abstract-expressionist ants. A/V for an expanded me
Mustapha Suleyman says we must "contain" future AI development. The victorious Hollywood writers' strikers just did it
TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIES, ARTISTS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, A BETTER MEDIA, INDIVIDUAL, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, VIDEO/FILMpat kaneartificial intelligence, strikes, labour unions, hollywood, writers strike, writers
Fast-fashion can solve its waste problem by using recycled textiles—but we have to push pressure on brands to use it
Intensifying the everyday—by making a scent garden for migrants in Gateshead, and by weirding a toy shop in Ayr High Street
On play, creativity and the new politics of imagination for Gen Z/Alpha. Pat Kane talks with Planet: Critical's Rachel Donald
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, FUTURES, ALTERNATIVE UK, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, ACTION, ARTISTSpat kaneplay, superplay, the play ethic, pat kane
Norway's Minus makes "carbon-negative" chairs that you "subscribe" to - ensuring they end up as bio-char
4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, ARTISTS, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGYpat kanedesign, design ethics, circular economy, furniture, norway
Offline and online, coming out of Berlin, maybe a "School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe" is exactly what you need
4TH SECTOR, ARTISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIES, LEARNING, INGENUITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIESpat kaneschools, college, berlin, design, design thinking, ecodesign
Sam Wootton's oil-paintings render a generation whose "creative minds are no longer underfunded and misprioritised"
Skrillex amplifies Arab womanhood, high art out of creative therapy, and Dirk Koy’s morphing streets. Post-holiday A/V
Manchester's alternative news site The Mill is building a paying audience and getting big name support
Berlin spends nearly €1 billion on public arts & spaces for the city (twice as much as for all of England)
“Utopian dreaming and rageful dreaming” at Caithness’s People’s Palace of Possibility
Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas
The delicate skill of Noh maskmakers, irregular baby heartbeats as modular beats, and GrimesAI scattering her voice to the world. All cultural craft is here
Journalism's big cliche? "If it bleeds it leads". But research shows that tales of kindness can counteract the gloom induced by "bad news"
“Sustainability is the art of living well within the ecological limits of a finite planet. Art is more than an instrument in this project. It’s the very nature of it”—Tim Jackson
Online war games aren't yet banned in Russia. Finland's Helsingen Sanomat uses Counter-Strike to get counter-facts into the country
“When we design, we really have to be feeling the Earth in some way, we cannot continue to inflict damage on it.” RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner, Yasmeen Lari
“African Folktales, Reimagined” - a collaboration between six young African directors, UNESCO and Netflix. The results are extraordinary
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, ARTISTS, VIDEO/FILM, GLOBALISTS, FUTURES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, A BETTER MEDIApat kaneafrica, folktales, folk, cinema
The history of the Turner Prize is a map of the twisting relationship between culture and politics since 1984. This year's contenders are no different