Everything in nature is about flow, he reminded me: wind, water, energy, even people. Yet for the past century or so our cities have been built to disrupt these flows.
Cities are bad for us. Let’s fix them, Rasmus Astrup, Monocle December 2024
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If you listen to music on streaming services, you can go for hours without doing anything. But if you play a record, you have to stand up and turn it over. It’s mindful."
Record Industry’s chief financial officer
Mieke Vermeulen
Monocle December 2024
“I hope that every time I say something, somebody raises their hand and says, ‘No, I don’t agree’, because that starts a conversation to take better action.”
Luca Fuso, the CEO of Italian furniture maker Cassina
Monocle December 2024
If you listen to music on streaming services, you can go for hours without doing anything. But if you play a record, you have to stand up and turn it over. It’s mindful.”
Record Industry’s chief financial officer
Mieke Vermeulen
My house is a refuge
My house is my refuge an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience,” wrote Mexican architect Luis Barragán in 1948.
The key to talking to…
The key to talking to someone and not at them is speaking in a way that doesn’t confound them with specialist language.
Monocle Minute On Design
Learning from a discipline
“Working with boatbuilders has helped me to understand the complex structure of a tree,” says the designer. “Each piece of wood has different properties and potential. Boat building is a combination of selecting the ideal parts and understanding how they work together.”
self-taught designer Mircea Anghel
Monocle Minute On Design, WEDNESDAY. 02/08/23
Glass is like our lives
Its architectural essence lends it a unique quality: it’s a kinetic art that shifts and moves over the course of the day as light filters through the glass. This choreographic work across the interior spaces of buildings is a magical and mysterious aspect that is impossible for a painting to deliver.
Brian Clarke – stain glass creative. Monicle
What should Education be?
I believe that education should expand our consciousness, capabilities, sensitivities, and cultural understanding. It should enlarge our worldview. As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do, and the world around you—the core purpose of education is to enable students to understand both worlds. In today’s climate, there is also a new and urgent challenge: to provide forms of education that engage young people with the global-economic issues of environmental well-being.
Sir Ken Robinson
Operating from the position of a deeper self-knowledge
A transformative leader is also concerned about being effective, but they are more likely to operate from the position of a deeper self-knowledge, and take bold actions based on their convictions and self-understanding to bring about significant change.
Derek Weymouth, Futuremakers.
https://futuremakers.nz/2023/06/20/all-at-cs-re-leadership/