Five life-affirming words we should bring back into use: adamate, autometry, biophilia, collachrymate, mesology
Melancholic black midi, mind-bending Koans from cartoon monks, Greenlanders evoked in grainy archive. Cleanse your doors of perception
The playfulness of Web 3.0 and crypto culture - the coming era of the internet - is a feature, not a bug, says Pat Kane
Waste Age: designers should begin designing with the minimisation of waste as their prime goal
"Utopia/Dystopia" is too binary. Bridget McKenzie suggests a "Possitopia", and Rupert Read a "Thrutopia"
“Strategies, tactics and games to upend the status quo”: Sanity Clause 🧑🎄 recommends the Beautiful Trouble Card Box for your stocking
Forecasting peers into the future - backcasting builds backwards from an imagined future. Regen·era is a great example of the latter.
We’re not on our own here… Mapping the diverse ecosystem that the Alternative UK belongs to
TRU LUV have a mighty ambition - to produce digital rituals that heal us, invoking “tend-and-befriend” over “fight-and-flight”
A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, FEMININE, CREATE THE FEEL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIVIDUALpat kanevideo games, computer games, design ethics
Religious communities can make the difference in winning the fight against climate change
The late Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identified happiness with a state of “flow”. The idea can still help us detach from consumerism
Alternative Editorial: We Don't Need A New Story
A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, ACTION FORUM, ALTER NATIVES, CREATE THE FEEL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LOCALISM, TELL THE STORYpat kaneCOOP26, people power, community action network, talking
Kids not understanding work, Radiohead going down a gameful rabbit-hole, ultrasound turbocharging meditators… Vids to entangle you
"Voicing The Air" is a game which asks us to imagine humans and non-humans together in an assembly, jointly deciding green futures
Catastrophe means "a reversal of what is expected". And apocalypse means to "reveal, uncover, disclose, discover". Better definitions than we're used to
Eco-bot.net: an art project that scans tweets for corporate greenwash during Cop26
Alter Natives: Sleepless, fretting over her son’s future, Inez Aponte sets us some crucial questions in this first week of COP26
A “deep fake” Dutch Prime Minister delivers hard facts about the climate dangers his country faces. A powerful trick - but there's ambivalent consequences
Visualisations of climate crisis: put Buck House (and Celtic Park) underwater, see how much plastic you eat a week, and attend to the jellyfish
It's not just algos predicting what we like... Content platforms are inventing thousands of new genres. "Chamber psych", anyone?"