Stephen Bau

Culture

Delete Facebook

The burning of the American Empire and the Earth is the responsibility of every Facebook executive and employee who might be saying to themselves, “I was only following orders to keep my well-compensated position at Facebook.”

Culture

Melina Laboucan-Massimo

For Creative Mornings Vancouver, Melina presented the story of her work, studies and campaigns in Brazil, Australia, Mexico, Canada and across Europe focusing on resource extraction, climate change impacts, media literacy, energy literacy and Indigenous rights & responsibilities.

Resilience

Resilience

To become a resilient society, we need to become the heroes and protagonists of a different story. Who are we? We are a builders collective. We are building leaders to design a resilient society.

Hope

Grief

A sense of hopelessness can overwhelm us within moments of a feeling of joy when we are confronted with a loss. Grief may never leave us, but it may be possible to respond in healthier ways.

Art

The Jazz Kids created by Joan Chamorro

“It is my wish, for those who didn’t know the vocal jazz, that through this work and these young voices they become curious about and begin a journey of discovery of what may be a source of immense pleasure: Billie, Ella, Dinah, Sarah and other many voices, male and female, are waiting for them.”

Hope

We Are All In This Together

We are all being affected by COVID-19. The stress of the situation and the loneliness of our social distancing can be overwhelming at times. The Liturgists are offering a way to help during this time.

Love

Israel Loves Palestine

These are stories of love and peace from the area that has been the iconic symbol of the divisions that are tearing this world apart. The stories start with a wish to stop a war with Iran by getting to know the other side — all by simply starting a conversation.

Art

Year End Problems

Music released by Roy Darnell Music, featuring scenes from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Culture

American Idiot

American life is made up of a series of abuses and exploitations and degradations that shock the rest of the world — all of it, not just some of it.

Culture

An Absolutely Devastating Film

Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary directed by Jeff Gibbs that uncovers the propaganda campaign of the green energy industry run by public relations, advertising, and marketing firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations.

Resilience

Resilience Breakout Room

What challenges are we facing? How might we reframe some of these challenges? What are the greatest opportunities for the service design community? What role can we play?

Resilience

Emergency Design Collective

As designers, we specialize in addressing the unknown. We run toward ambiguity – fueled by creativity, and we are wired to ship impactful solutions. We can – and we must – play a role in this critical shift in history.

Science

Climate Emergency

Increasingly alarmed by continued political inaction on climate breakdown, and by what she perceives as a broader society-wide struggle to accept the implications of the climate and ecological crisis, Rachael Treharne joined Extinction Rebellion earlier this year.

Art

Mad World

Curt Smith of Tears For Fears performs Mad World with his daughter Diva, recorded from their quarantine life in LA.

Culture

Cold Storage

The towering shelves and expanding sprawl of a library storehouse, the Harvard Depository, grant a vantage point from which to contemplate the future of libraries as networked points of access to past and present for the generations of scholars to come.

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.

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.