Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture Game I played your game. I built your wealth. And you burned it to the ground. How can we win? How can we win?
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture 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.”
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Culture 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.
Science 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.
Culture 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.
Culture From Hopelessness to Healing Ruthie Lindsey explores her experiences with debilitating pain, loss, loneliness, and death in her new book: There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing.
Culture Blueprint for Counter Education “We were trying to integrate the domains; the inspiration for our concept came from the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, which, at different times earlier in the 20th century, had tried to integrate the arts and political thought.”
Culture Love, Death, and Chaos One of the most important things we can do is begin to look with new eyes, to see what we might make of our lives that is good and possible.
Culture We Are Treaty People The Two Row Wampum Treaty is considered by the Haudenosaunee to be the basis of all of their subsequent treaties with European and North American governments, and the citizens of those nations.
Culture Extraction Empire Globally, more than 75% of prospecting and mining companies on the planet are based in Canada. Seemingly impossible to conceive, the scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada’s historical legacy as state, nation, and now, as global resource empire.
Culture Colonization Road Since Europeans arrived on these shores, roads have been built to bring settlers across the country, connect them with resources to create industry and ultimately to establish a nation. Many of these interconnecting networks are called Colonization Road.
Culture Please Stand By Canada is experiencing a little difficulty with the neoliberal capitalist machine. The police state has enlisted its military forces to quell the people who are trying to hold the government responsible for its crimes.
Culture Invading Indigenous Territory Trudeau paid lip service to the process of reconciliation and lied about the breakdown of talks with Indigenous leaders. Then, in an act of aggression, Canada invaded the unceded territory of the Tyendinaga Mohawks.
Culture Labour and Climate Justice As the climate justice movement grows and the demand for immediate action intensifies, how can we move beyond broad demands and begin implementing the ambitious changes necessary to stop climate change and improve Canadian society?
Culture A World of Music Music is universal in human experience. The sounds inspired by the rhythms and repititions of daily life permeate our environment.
