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The Inner Lives of Cultures conference: read all about it
Cultural relations is about conversations between people. There was no lack of this at Counterpoint's recent The Inner Lives of Cultures conference in Brussels. For two days Counterpoint brought together keynote speaker Tzvetan Todorov, leading lights from the academy, authors, filmmakers, scientists and cultural relations practitioners from around the world. They were there to decipher the whispered, or tacit, discourses of individual cultures, so the dialogue between us all can become deeper, more informed, and more productive. Speakers from Mexico, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Russia, Romania, China, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, and Iran dug up and thought through cultural secrets. more...
Cloud Culture: download the book, watch the film, hear the podcast
Counterpoint is launching a vital debate for our time. The rise of cloud computing is not only creating the battle for global internet control: it will soon change the very ways in which we exercise our creativity and forge relationships. In our ground-breaking report, Charles Leadbeater asks what will Cloud Culture be like? Who will own the cloud? How can we keep it open? And how can it empower the world’s poorest people? more...
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