Community
Bauhaus Movement
Rethinking the world: founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus intended to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline—a synthesis of crafts and arts.
Stephen Bau
Culture
From Hopelessness to Healing
Ruthie Lindsey explores her experiences with debilitating pain, loss, loneliness, and death in her new book: There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing.
Art
Andrea Motis
Andrea Motis began playing the trumpet at age seven; three years later she began studying jazz at the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu under Chamorro, who soon after recruited her for his band while she was still a teenager.
Culture
Blueprint for Counter Education
“We were trying to integrate the domains; the inspiration for our concept came from the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, which, at different times earlier in the 20th century, had tried to integrate the arts and political thought.”
Community
The Liturgists
A community for people facing difficult seasons in life and transitions in their beliefs, for people who live with uncertainties, doubts, and questions, and for people who are not afraid to face hard topics with honesty.
Science
The Fuller Challenge
Starting with the whole, Buckminster Fuller anticipated future trends and needs, employed the scientific method, and aligned with nature’s operating principles. He saw that this way of thinking and doing is the future of design. He called his practice design science.
Design
Mentoring with Designlab
Since August of 2018, I have been helping people who are actively seeking a shift in their careers as they learn user experience design. Designlab is training the next generation of designers.
Culture
Love, Death, and Chaos
One of the most important things we can do is begin to look with new eyes, to see what we might make of our lives that is good and possible.
Art
The Universe Smiles Upon You
Who is this guy? I started talking to him about it, exchanged numbers, and I got a text from him—randomly—one day. Hadn’t heard from him in ages. Got a text that just said, “The universe smiles upon you.” And I knew exactly who it was from.
Culture
We Are Treaty People
The Two Row Wampum Treaty is considered by the Haudenosaunee to be the basis of all of their subsequent treaties with European and North American governments, and the citizens of those nations.
Resilience
Rediscovering an Inner Resilience
Wendy Vanguard found new joy by shifting her focus to her family, personal creative projects, and giving back to her community through mentorship. Throughout a lifetime of unexpected turns, struggles, and successes, Wendy rediscovered an inner resilience.
Philosophical Humour
“If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.” — Alfred North Whitehead