Category: #sundayscraps

I’m glad someone thought deeply about the popularity of ‘hits different‘ which I’m too old to say without wincing / the Hjalli method of raising boys and girls differently in nursery to improve equality is quite something / I was at Fixfest last week thinking it’s been 10 years since NESTA looked at the makerspace… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #98

I’ve been hanging out at Somerset House it was weird to see a cupboard labelled the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library overnight / insert.art is an interesting digital magazine /  Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia’s surrealist inspired videography is the kind of stuff AI wish it could come up with / remembering… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #97

Someone should make a documentary based on the life of Hong Kong photographer Nancy Sheung / I don’t understand what the eel collective does but it sounds interesting /  bookmarking this article on car-free Devon for future long weekends / a friend told me about asafoetida in indian cuisine / theheat.io climate conference in Oxford… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #96

The anxiety of living makes us want to judge, be sure, have a stance, definitively decide. Having a fixed, rigid system of belief can be a great relief. – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain If you want a quiet week, don’t read the history of Mandatory Palestine / I loved this short… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #95

I wish I’d grown up with Pina Bausch / instead you can find me at Julie’s jive classes on Monday nights / going to watch this 1994 documentary about the late Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène  / the inventor of the television lived in Crystal Palace near a Tecton beauty  /  there’s a clock museum down… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #94

I committed a horrible faux pas today. I apologised to those concerned of course but in those moments I remind myself of this 17th century nun’s prayer / I’m annoyed I missed this exhibition about shade / thinking about popping into Bruxelles to see the Fondation Folon on a daytrip / beautiful AI ‘painted’ typography… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #93

This New Yorker article about children who go ‘no contact’ made me think a lot about my own experience so I might write about it some day / I finally got round to watching Showgirls and The Piano Teacher /  I had some garibaldi biscuits for the first time / we need more niche digital design… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #92

Junkyard Dogs looks very good but grim / this piece of investigative journalism about the real story behind the Salt Path heroes deserves a Netflix doco / this Filipino bakery in Battersea is amazing / was poet David Whyte the OG ‘mental health and wellbeing at work’ guru? / the interesting landscape work of Colombian practice… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #91

Some highlights from the fantastic Design and Disability show at the V&A: Jo Spence’s art therapy, spikes to protect wheelchair users from unwanted touching, why the white cane can’t get any better, adaptations for everyday living, an inclusive architecture course in the 1960s, an inclusive housing scheme. Looking forward to the More than Human show… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #88

A biting review of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale / a show of Derek Jarman’s paintings / my friend Simon recommended I read Butler to the World to explain why we put up with so much / I don’t think I ever properly met Mike but it’s sad he’s leaving TechCrunch Europe / I’m not sure… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #87