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Regeneration

By telling and listening to stories we allow the transition from an old story of separation, domination, exclusion, destruction, and extraction to a new story of wholeness, inter-being, integration, equality, creation, and regeneration.

Present Awareness

Present Awareness

We are journeying beyond the gates and borders of cloistered imagination to realize a different identity, defined less by national borders and more by interconnected present awareness of future possibilities, a regenerative venture into interbeing, creativity, collaboration, and community.

Impact

The smallness of individual human actions in juxtaposition with vast geological landscapes is a contrast that is at once a feeling of helplessness, but also a recognition of the power of the collective to employ technologies with little realization of the unintended consequences of our actions.

Ideology

The public relations machinery of the Dominion of Canada distracts the population from the actual pursuits of the British Crown and its corporations, founded upon the Doctrine of Discovery, to extract the resources of the colonies and its labourers to secure economic power.

Learned Helplessness

Learned Helplessness

We have internalized a sense of helplessness and abdicated our power and our ability to think to celebrities, billionaires, and politicians. This is our moment to take back our power and to reimagine our social architecture.

Pattern

The problem with my family of origin is the inability to confront problems. We yell at each other, and someone slams the door and drives off. Then we retreat into silence. The same toxic pattern for my entire life.

Public Relations

Public Relations

The British Crown is pathetic in its posturing, public relations, and disinformation campaign to cow its ill-informed population to serve its economic interests. There is no longer any point maintaining any military presence in the colonies. The banks are working just fine.

Time

Human time, energy, and creativity are the new currency. When our time and love are considered precious, as living, breathing human beings, then money, capital, property, corporations, and nations become worthless.

Clarity

Ancient storytelling illuminates recurring patterns in the histories of humans when thinking about the never-ending struggle between the hierarchies they create and the people who serve them.

Invitation

If you do not listen, we need not speak again. I will know that you don’t love me and you don’t care. I will not throw my pearls before swine. But, if you do, we can share our table and break bread together. I pray only that we be one, I in you and you in me.

Exile

Who am I? A stranger in a strange land, an exile. David Bohm’s story helps me to reframe my own as an exile who turns exile into an advantage.

Game

I played your game. I built your wealth. And you burned it to the ground. How can we win? How can we win?

Options

The silence of the corporate and business class maintains the status quo in a social, economic, and political system designed to kill people for profit. However, we have options to redirect human behaviours in a more positive and life-giving direction.

Conversion

How to think differently about doing good as a creative person: A guide to avoiding “creative savior complex” when working on social impact projects.

Power

As designers, we have power to give our time to what is important and necessary and required. We also have power to withhold our labour from the very systems that are built to oppress us.

A time to tear down and a time to build

A time to tear down and a time to build

The design industry faces a reckoning. We either continue to build the fascist empire of corporate control or we dismantle it by refusing to offer our labour to perpetuate the existing systems.

Delete Facebook

Delete Facebook

The burning of the American Empire and the Earth is the responsibility of every Facebook executive and employee who might be saying to themselves, “I was only following orders to keep my well-compensated position at Facebook.”

Melina Laboucan-Massimo

Melina Laboucan-Massimo

For Creative Mornings Vancouver, Melina presented the story of her work, studies and campaigns in Brazil, Australia, Mexico, Canada and across Europe focusing on resource extraction, climate change impacts, media literacy, energy literacy and Indigenous rights & responsibilities.

The Jazz Kids created by Joan Chamorro

The Jazz Kids created by Joan Chamorro

“It is my wish, for those who didn’t know the vocal jazz, that through this work and these young voices they become curious about and begin a journey of discovery of what may be a source of immense pleasure: Billie, Ella, Dinah, Sarah and other many voices, male and female, are waiting for them.”

Year End Problems

Year End Problems

Music released by Roy Darnell Music, featuring scenes from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

American Idiot

American life is made up of a series of abuses and exploitations and degradations that shock the rest of the world — all of it, not just some of it.

An Absolutely Devastating Film

An Absolutely Devastating Film

Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary directed by Jeff Gibbs that uncovers the propaganda campaign of the green energy industry run by public relations, advertising, and marketing firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations.

Climate Emergency

Climate Emergency

Increasingly alarmed by continued political inaction on climate breakdown, and by what she perceives as a broader society-wide struggle to accept the implications of the climate and ecological crisis, Rachael Treharne joined Extinction Rebellion earlier this year.

Mad World

Curt Smith of Tears For Fears performs Mad World with his daughter Diva, recorded from their quarantine life in LA.

Cold Storage

The towering shelves and expanding sprawl of a library storehouse, the Harvard Depository, grant a vantage point from which to contemplate the future of libraries as networked points of access to past and present for the generations of scholars to come.