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Author: Counterpoint
This CD-rom follows an interactive workshop led by Counterpoint in 2003 called a Sense of Place, which explored ideas of ‘displacement’ and ‘integration’ in Europe, through the intellectual focus of the role of the arts, culture and media. Nick Wadham-Smith, Deputy Director Counterpoint, chaired an elective workshop at the event called Migrating Memories. The CD contains film and material which can be used to stimulate similar workshops.
The 21st century forces us to live in a perpetual paradox—a world which is increasingly interconnected and interdependent, in which communication is apparently easier and cheaper than ever before, but in which we easily feel vulnerable, incomplete or adrift as individuals—a world in which diversity is often an opportunity but still too often lived as a burden.
Counterpoint is asking: how do we develop a sense of self that simultaneously contributes to a much needed collective capacity? And can we do so?
Identities and the self programme outline
