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Words by Kesia Inkersole & Helen Job
Last week, we were excited to welcome Kinda Studios into our studio to discuss their work in Neuroaesthetics and a new report they made in collaboration with Design Hotels. This talk was an introduction to our new content series Conversations - where we invite inspiring thinkers and creatives to discuss what it means to observe. More on this coming soon, but for now, here are our recent Observations…
Reading 📚
The UK is losing its creative spark because of ever-increasing class disparities
Space Black investigate the privilege of future-thinking, asking ‘Who has a seat at the table to speculate the alternative?’
While Jules Evans ponders, ‘If this is a psychedelic renaissance, where is all the art?’
Helen can’t get her nose out of Miranda July’s new book All Fours and already has The Overview: Meditations on Nature for a World in Transition by Willow Defebaugh queued up to read next
Listening 🎧
The White Pube reveal their concept of unreal estate, speaking on houses, art and lying to estate agents
Professor of digital culture Felix Stalder discusses how the rise of computation led to the quantified self and what interpretations might exist beyond the world as a set of measurements
Kinda Studios explore the role of transformative travel on the intersection of neuroscience and the arts
Experiencing 🌷
We’re excited to step inside HOTEL, MIKE, opening this summer to offer ‘Living SELF CARE designed for the FUTURE’ - especially since our neighbours, graphic design studio Made Thought, are behind the beautiful branding
We’re wondering whether we can make it wedontknowwhatthisis24 to celebrate the summer solstice at 4.43am next Friday… will you be there?
Kes felt inspired and energised after seeing The Vinyl Factory — Reverb exhibition at 180 Studios - rave as resistance, rave as healing
Helen & Kes visited the London College of Fashion Creative Direction for Fashion Year 2 summer show and were in awe at the innovative work of the talented students
Watching 👀
Amy Ireland, co-author of Cute Accelerationism, provides an interpretation of the term Cyberfeminism
We want to absorb Billy Morgan’s ‘Lures’ at The ICA, a series of live performances exploring the fictionality of the body and deconstructing representations of the feminine
Films of Resistance at Genesis Cinema will be showcasing 5 short Palestinian films in the hope of inspiring continued resilience
This week, Helen is heading off to 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen and we’re excited to share more observations with you soon...
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