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Living within limits
Apocryphally former Chinese foreign minister Zhou Enlai, when asked about the impact of the French Revolution, noted that it was ‘too early to say’. Likewise we have no real idea of what the world...
View ArticleCollections, Compassion and Covid-19
Covid-19 has changed our world in ways that we could never have imagined. The pandemic has had a seismic impact on our world, its impacts exposing questions about what really matters and what our...
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No Going Back Conversations
Society has changed dramatically. Lockdown and Black Lives Matter protests have blown open any sense of ‘normal’. Now, as museums, galleries and heritage organisations struggle with planning for...
View ArticleHow can museums tell a new story of place?
Our greatest need today is to see life as whole, to see its many sides in their proper relations; but we must have a practical as well as a philosophical interest in such an integrated view of life....
View ArticleThe role of culture in a time of self-reflection
In May 2020 in the middle of lockdown we held a workshop hosted by Culture Declares programme The Offer in partnership with Common Cause Foundation Watch a RECORDING of the session Covid-19 changed...
View Article‘What if museums could become engine-rooms of the imagination?
“To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually, presently, and subjectively are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times...
View ArticleCreative Civic Connections for Climate
In this session we explored how museums can connect with their communities to respond to the climate emergency with immediacy, reciprocity, creativity and fun – using shared and pop up spaces as...
View ArticleShare your reflections on our new Manifesto
The thing about Happy Museum is that they mean it, this manifesto is not for show – it’s an honest and true articulation of what matters to them, and to us all. Al Tickell – Director Julie’s Bicycle...
View ArticleBook Review – Flourish
Flourish – Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn “This exploration of the way we live now and ways we might live is challenging and inspiring.”Hilary...
View ArticleTransformation for liveable futures
CreaTures/Happy Museum pointers to making change Making a better world calls on us to work towards positive cultural change – above and beyond essential reduction in our carbon footprints. Cultural...
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