Another person who appears throughout our book is the writer Arundhati Roy. First coming to our attention from winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 with the fabulous novel God of Small Things, the Indian author Arundhati Roy has been a major political thinker and author who we have followed ever since. For us thinking mindfully about culture, […]
When we talk about well-being we are in essence talking about a socially-engaged practice. We take the phrase ‘socially-engaged’ from the term ‘engaged buddhist’ as attributed to the Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạn; in that the aim is to collectively apply the teachings and practices in our lives to undo systems that create suffering and injustice. We must do these […]
There is a stream of thought that runs through our new book “Museums and Well-being” that is interested in ideas around the politics of care. Due mostly to word length limits and a desire for our book to stay mostly on topic we make only limited tangential reference to these ideas. Yet, they are critical to our political understanding of […]
Building on previous posts about people who influenced our thoughts, we’d like to write a short post about another person we briefly mention in our book “Museums and Well-being“, and who in reality was a greater influence on our thoughts than might otherwise seem: Johanna Hedva, a Korean American writer, artist, and musician. They are the author of the 2018 […]
Another person in our growing series of posts about influences in our book is David Graeber, pictured above in Rojava (image via twitter), who the world sadly lost a while ago. Graeber has long been an influence of ours and we’ve shared a friendship circle but never met in person. We wanted here to re-post a piece of his about […]
In our book ‘Museums and Well-being‘ (out now through Routledge!) we make note of an event that happened at the Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, with Ram Dass. We thought it might be fun to share the image (above) of this event. We found the image of the instagram account of Ram Dass (@babaramdass). It was really great to […]
As of this past weekend it’s finally out, and we’ve even held a copy in our hands, a real physical book! It feels good to see the ideas we pulled together in book form. We’re really glad that we completed it and that it’s now out there in the world. We hope you pick-up a copy and find it interesting […]
When we set out to write our new book “Museums and Well-being” (available now from Routledge or why not ask your local indy bookshop to source it for you), we thought we might include a range of ideas for well-being practices that you could programme into museums. As it turned out the book changed over time, and this wasn’t quite […]
One of the things we’ll do on this blog is shed a little more light on, or otherwise discuss further, some of the ideas, people, and places, that we mention in our book “Museums and Well-being“. We thought we’d kick this off with a post about one of the people who we mention in the book and who we think […]
Hello world! As the standard blog start used to say. Pre-pandemic we launched a newsletter on this website, but, with the pandemic and other projects taking over this fell away a little before it really had time to gain much momentum. Right now though the website is going through a bit of a change, and we’ve decided to start a […]
