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Counterpoint Team
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Counterpoint is a think-tank charged with developing thinking about Cultural Relations. In the 21st century, effective, open communication between people of different cultures is reality, not a luxury. Cultural Relations relies on the development of genuine communication and active trust: the British Council is committed to building the intercultural networks, relationships and debates that underpin both.
Meet the Counterpoint team: Nick Wadham-Smith, Acting Director
Nick Wadham-Smith helped found Counterpoint in 2002. His projects with Counterpoint include: Migrating Memories, a multimedia CD exploring movement and memory from the perspective of the arts, science, and psychotherapy; New National Identities, an international investigation about Britishness involving six countries and a book launched on 1 November 2007 (Who Cares About Britishness: a global view of the national idenity debate); and a publication about social change in Africa, Under the Tree of Talking: leadership for change in Africa, edited by Onyekachi Wambu. He has also co-edited British Studies: intercultural perspectives (Longman 2000) and was co-author, with Martin Rose, of Mutuality, Trust and Cultural Relations To relax, he enjoys swimming, cycling and a sport growing in popularity in the UK, Nordic Walking.
Aurélie Bröckerhoff
Aurélie is completing her Master’s in British Studies at the Centre for British Studies in Berlin. Throughout her studies she has researched, amongst others, in the fields of British Cultural Studies, Cultural Management, Social Psychology and Intercultural Communication. She now lives in London.
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How do you express in a word the whole business of argument and counter-argument, of provocative questioning and unexpected views, of no-holds-barred thinking about what Cultural Relations are for? We came up with Counterpoint - a name which indicates a line of music in contrast to, but in harmony with, the main melody. And which seems too to imply the making of one point against another, the to-and-fro of fencing or tennis. Then we needed a symbol, and our designers came up with the brilliant idea of appropriating the space between the four balls in the British Council’s own logo - and that’s what Counterpoint’s logo is, the linking space between the Council’s more visible activities.
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