Numerous reports have predicted the benefits on productivity, but the devastating effects on employment, that AI and robotics may have in the future, some of which is necessary for UK plc to increase its productivity which is poor against our competitors, for all sorts of reasons. Creative professions such as artists and composers have generally […]
The historic old Magazine building which is now the Serpentine Sackler has been taken over by German film-maker, artist, writer and digital innovator Hito Steyerl. The rooflights which normally allow daylight to flow down into the spaces have been covered over and the building is now a series of dark spaces where you can make […]
East London, at the conference and business centre of Excel, was surprisingly busy over the last two days. A potentially dry subject of learning technologies attracted an amazing number of exhibitors, who all must see this as a positive business opportunity, with an amazing sea of visitors. Companies offering a variety of services from assisting […]
As computers, digitalisation and AI marches through society, what will their effect be on art. Will the artists be made redundant or will artists grasp the new technology as tools that replace paint and brushes and plaster and balsa? Surprisingly, artists and computer geeks have been using computers for over 50 years to create prints, […]
You’ve been watching Star Wars and then you go into work the next day. You think it’s bad enough having difficult co-workers who challenge your decisions and ideas – imagine that your co-worker is a robot, who probably has more intelligence than you, albeit it in a particularly logical and non-emotional way. This is not […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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