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
Alternative Editorial: From Activism To Activation
“You are stuck in a daydream…the machine was not made for you”. A starkly beautiful journey, by means of dance and film, through our illusions about reality
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
Let us imagine an Ecological Intelligence Agency, suggests Superflux - a way for AI to help us be good stewards of nature
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
So much being "made in Plymouth"... Even their vending machines contain art, poetry, plays and pin badges
Sinead O'Connor was once seen as a sacrilegious rebel, but her music and life were deeply infused with spiritual seeking
"If an AI simulates a popstar and starts gigging...has she passed the Touring Test?" There’s more techno-gags like that at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe
A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, YOUTHpat kanecomedy, artificial intelligence, Edinburgh, Edinburgh festival fringe
Berlin spends nearly €1 billion on public arts & spaces for the city (twice as much as for all of England)
Workaday absurdity in Berlin, deep patterns matched in Morocco, and meaning-making with Cornel West. A/V to expand your "me"
“Utopian dreaming and rageful dreaming” at Caithness’s People’s Palace of Possibility
“Be prolific in small, free, creative acts”. Seed-forms give Bridget McKenzie inspiration for regenerative ways of life and work
Will the new AI rob creators of their copyright? Or will it liberate human creativity into unprecedented levels of invention? The debate is open
Alternative Editorial: Time For Realisation
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, COMMUNITY, FUTURES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIO-POLITICS, TELL THE STORYpat kanebildung, Realisation, social justice, festival, privilege
If artificial intelligence could translate animal communications, would they be liberated or controlled? Dezeen’s ‘AItopia’ series asks this and other Q’s
Music from a waving arm, a Shrek grieves his father, and sheep on the grave. Human, all too human, are these videos
Alternative Editorial: No Straight Line To The Future
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, FUTURES, INGENUITY, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kaneFuture, complexity, conflict transformation, ecocivlisation, minna salami