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I wrote a short paper for NESTA/Clore Leadership Programme recent call for papers on arts & digital technology. It wasn’t selected: maybe they only want the sunny side! But points I make are important for arts managers to consider so … Continue reading
I’m working on a project with Transition Network to assess the potential value of a new (more resilient and sustainable) local economy in Manchester. The research focuses is on local food, retrofit of housing, and renewable energy sectors. We’re gathering … Continue reading
For the past couple years I’ve been exploring the notion of ‘life-friendly impact‘. Here is my latest attempt to explain what it means, which I’ve just written for a new programme of work with artists and practitioners and the Chinese … Continue reading
This is a full version of the article I’ve written in Arts Professional issue 244. Denial, fear, anger, grief, despair, guilt, smugness, hope. How are you feeling today? These are some typical responses to the enormity and complexity of the … Continue reading
I’m working on a research project with Transition Network to assess the potential value of a new type of local economy in Manchester (I’ll write more about this soon). Transition is an initiative that supports community-led responses to climate change, peak oil and … Continue reading
At the All About Audiences conference in April this year, I delivered a workshop on organisational and personal resilience. I defined resilience as ‘maintaining function in light of a disturbance‘, where the disturbance for organisations is anything that causes a … Continue reading
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Economic instability, climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity are hugely complex global challenges to organisational viability. In the diagram below I show in simplified form how some of these factors interrelate and impact on business. What’s not in the … Continue reading
