Happy New Year: Nostradamus c/o Al Stewart

"A Man for All Seasons" ...
"A Woman ... and other gender identities ..."
"A Child ..."
"A model ..."

"A model for Past, Present, Future"

A series of Frames - Janus-like view:

Pre-morbid, Diagnosis, Prognosis ...

Clinical and Case -
Assessment
Planning
Formulation
Evaluation
Engagement

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Nostradamus - Al Stewart
From the Album: Past, Present, Future

Eco-Visionaries: Confronting a planet in a state of emergency c/o Royal Academy

Discover how architects, artists and designers are responding today to some of the most urgent ecological issues of our times.

"From climate change to species extinction and resource depletion, the damaging effects of modern life are more tangible than ever. Eco-Visionaries examines humankind’s impact on the planet and presents innovative approaches that reframe our relationship with nature. Through film, installation, architectural models and photography, the works in this exhibition interrogate how architecture, art and design are reacting to a rapidly changing world, beyond mainstream notions of sustainability.

In the 1950s, scientists started raising serious concerns about the damaging effects of modern life on the environment. Since then, architects, designers and artists have joined the urgent effort to draw attention to the planet’s fragile and endangered ecosystem."

Royal Academy - source and continued ...

Planning to visit the exhibition and related event in February.


Previously posted:
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Blog Action Day: Imagine a generation taking nothing for granted from the start

Beautiful thought & Houses - Ruskin

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"There are two ways of getting it, if you do want it. The first is wholly in your own power; to make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. Those are nests on the sea indeed, but safe beyond all others; only they need much art in the building. None of us yet know, for none of us have yet been taught, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought – proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us – houses,- built without hands, for our souls to live in" - Ruskin.

THE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN, 
HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD. 
VOLUME IV. 
THE EAGLES NEST. IX. — THE STORY OF THE HALCYON. I99.
LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE; 
AND SOLD BY MR. G. ALLEN, HEATHFIELD COTTAGE, KESTON, KENT. 
1872.

My source:
The Ruskin Library, Lancaster University.

What's in a Name?

  Or, The First Rule of First Aid* ... #SafeStaffing

Health care is often described as complex ...

there are tools to help simplify, conjoin 

and help care navigation and learning ...

Despite this and even if people are listening

politics, politicians and policy makers seem determined to turn health care into a maze ...

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*Protect yourself first.	"WAITING ROOM" "WAIT HERE"

RCN Safe Staffing Campaign:
https://www.rcn.org.uk/employment-and-pay/safe-staffing

patient safety learning hub:
https://www.pslhub.org/

'Named Nurse' 25 years ago.
Mitchell G, Strain J. The role of the named nurse in long-term settings. Nurs Older People. 2015 Apr;27(3):26-9. doi: 10.7748/nop.27.3.26.e679. Review. PubMed PMID: 25809049.

My source (and image):
https://twitter.com/helenh49/status/1210956380636663813

C40: A City as an Individual..?

'2020' vision for leadership ...

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mental wellbeing belonging  identity (sense of self) contentedness	City Geography Statistics Weather Climate Population Epidemiology Energy Roads Water Infrastructure Transport Rail Technology Waste Management Air Greening Food Evidence
community neighbourhoods Quality of Life  social values, cohesion, inclusion leisure, social spaces	C40 surveillance?, security, ethics, values policy, disaster planning (pop. shifts ongoing and to follow), health & social care services, housing, welfare provision, employment, transparency, governance, taxation...

See also (posted in October):

ERCIM News No. 119 Special theme "Smart Things Everywhere"

- which includes:

https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en119/special/smart-municipality

The gravitas of Groups - and inertia

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talk green	walk the talk
'X' marks the spot the impact of inertia elsewhere	Group of Twenty Group of Eight Group of Seven

the G20 and other G's

despite their nomenclature

do they recognise the gravity of the situation?

the road is long

time is short

life is the essence

and the 'road' part of the problem ...

On Wikipedia:
Group of Seven
Group of Eight
Group of Twenty

Self to Other: Forms of 'imagination'

Book: "The Sociological Imagination"

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Self Person Biography imagination and creativity individual values Sociologist C. Wright Mills, who created the concept and wrote the definitive book about it, defined the sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship  between [individual] experience ...	'Thought experiment'
...and the wider society." (Crossman, 2019). Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) The Sociological Imagination, 1959	Political  imagination ACTION! growth climate change universal health care antibiotic resistance pollution corruption fake news

My source:
Dillow, C. (2019) The demise of growth stocks, Investors Chronicle, 13-19 December, 210:2680, pp.16-17.

Additional links:

C.Wright Mills: On Intellectual Craftsmanship

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Thomas Brett

https://brettworks.com/2010/11/04/c-wright-mills-on-intellectual-craftsmanship/

Crossman, Ashley. "Definition of the Sociological Imagination and Overview of the Book." ThoughtCo, Oct. 25, 2019, thoughtco.com/sociological-imagination-3026756

Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand - c/o Tate St Ives

"From where you stand, what is your own position?

How do you look at something?

What is the story that comes out of what you've seen?"

Otobong Nkanga.

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	Otobong Nkanga, Infinite Yield, 2015. Tapestry; 133 2/5 × 68 9/10 in. (288 × 175 cm);  © Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp.

I've a post still to follow from my trip to Dundee in the summer which included the V&A. On my four day visit last month to Cornwall I visited St Ives and the Tate. I really enjoyed this exhibition with its ecological, colonialism, consumerism, topological and science references. The exhibition ends on 5 January but there's another post for the new year.

Image source https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/03/Talk-Otobong-Nkanga-With-Omar-Kholeif

Merry Christmas to All: Peace.

Book: "Economists"

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	Economists Photographs by Mariana Cook; Edited with an Introduction by Robert M. Solow Yale University Press

My source:
Tim Harford, The changing face of economics, FT Magazine, 21/22 December 2019, pp. 26-33.