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selena-snape · 3 years ago

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Familia Snape

Primera Generación

¤ Morphin Nikolai Lazarus (1347-????) y Tallulah Aurelia Snape (1351-????)

Segunda Generación

¤ Gabriel Soren Snape (1389-????) y Conan Levi Malfoy (1834-???)

Tercera Generación

¤ Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (1881-???) y Gellert Amadeus Grindelwald (1883-????)

¤ Aberforth Florian Leighton Soren Dumbledore (1883-????) y Belvina Black (1886-????)

¤ Ariana Odolette Wilhemina Dumbledore (1885-????) y Arcturus Black (1884-????)

¤ Tom Marvolo Riddle (1926-????) y Marcus Eli Mulciber (1926-???)

¤ Valens Basilius Snape (1928-????) y Charles Conan Levin (1924-????)

¤ Tobias Vincent Snape (824-????) y Eileen Aiko Snape (1938-????)

¤ Pamela Demetria Malfoy (1931-????) y Elias Paul Voorhees (1928-????)

¤ Abraxas Ariel Malfoy (1936-????) y Persephone Avery (1935-???)

¤ Evangeline Ethel Malfoy (1938-????) y Lazarus Granville Sparda (????-????)

Cuarta Generación

¤ Crendence Aurelius Grindelwald (1901-????) y Lycoris Hesper Black (1904-????)

¤ Modesty Orianna Grindelwald (1918-????) y Michael Monroe Miller (1916-????)

¤ Valentine Desmond Dumbledore (1904-????) y Leroy Samuel Cooley (1906-????)

¤ Octavius Theodore Dumbledore ( 1908-????) y Minerva Ursula Parker (1905-????)

¤ Cassandra Eliza Dumbledore (1914-????) y Zivar Pollux Gallanford (1910-????)

¤ Callidora Eridanis Black (1915) y Harfang Ernest Longbottom (1913-????)

¤ Cedrella Oriana Black(1917-????) y Septimus Ronald Weasley (1915-????)

¤ Charis Scorpia Black (1919-????) y Caspar Dorian Crouch (1916-????)

¤ Trish Clarice Riddle (1954-????) y "Lady" Mary Ann Arkham (1958-????)

¤ Vanessa Octavia Riddle (1959-????) y Mike Spencer Peters (1952-????)

¤ Delphinie Savannah Riddle (1983-????) y Serena Angelette Denford (1981-????)

¤ Dominika Hazel Levin (1946-????) y Thomas Downey Richardson (1944-????)

¤ Vincent Alexander Levin (1951-????) y Daphne Rosie Campbell (1953-????)

¤ Niven Finnian Levin (1955-????) y River Aura Stone (1953-????)

¤ Devin Ivan Levin (1959-????) y Malorie Estella Van Kleiss (1962-????)

¤ Severus Tobias Snape (1960-????) y Ulaz Devereux Snape (1958-????)

¤ Ryou Nathan Snape (1971- ???) y Krolia Diane Kogane

¤ Jason Ezra Voorhees (1953-???) y Michael Gideon Myers (1957-????)

¤ Diana Madeline Voorhees (1961-????) y Mason Samuel Kimble (1960-????)

¤ Aphrodite Medea Malfoy (1952-????) y Ethan Marcus Nott (1950-????)

¤ Lucius Abraxas Malfoy (1954-????) y Narcissa Meissa Black (1955-????)

¤ Icarus Theodore Malfoy (1956-????) y Cassius Hastings (1957-????)

¤ Orpheus Lev Malfoy (1959-????) y Elsie Cobris (1959-????)

¤ William Joseph Dixon (1960-????) y Cassandra Janeth Lewis (1963-????)

¤ Kore Allegra Malfoy (1961-????) y Regulus Arcturus Black (1961-????)

¤ Pandora Luna Malfoy (1963-????) y Xenophilius Leland Lovegood (1961-????)

¤ Vergil Amos Sparda (1956-????) y Faith Mackenzie Myron (1959-????)

¤ Dante Alastor Sparda (1956-????) y Hope Melissa Myron (1959-????)

Quinta Generación

¤ Bastian Lynx Grindelwald (1924-????) y Riven Alexander Blackwood (1942-????)

¤ Theodore Niven Grindelwald (1929-????) y Amelie Luna Roberts (1931-????)

¤ Piper Delilah Grindelwald (1934-????) y Alvin Nicholas Dream (1932-????)

¤ Madeline Senka Miller (1933-????) y April Clarissa Wilson (1931-????)

¤ Percival Valentine Miller (1937-????) y Damien Thomas Haywood (1939-????)

¤ Benjamin Caleb Miller (1941-????) y Abigail Aura Cooper (1938-????)

¤ Micah Vladimir Miller (1945-????) y Louis William Afton (1946-????)

¤ Albia Bellona Miller (1949-????) y Gideom Silas Murphy (1945-????)

¤ Manon Ariana Miller (1952-????) y Cassius Roderick Abbott (1950-????)

¤ Ian Mason Dumbledore (1924-????) y Bellona Damara Huxley (1921-????)

¤ Ada Demetria Dumbledore (1929-????) y Azura Jasmine Brooks (1927-????)

¤ Kitty Xanthe Dumbledore (1933-????) y Ryan Christopher Everett (1930-????)

¤ Charlotte Macellina Dumbledore (1938-????) y Sebastian Artemis Jensen (1935-????)

¤ Demetrius Kieran Dumbledore (1942-????) y Ulric Frederick Golding (1940-????)

¤ Fabian Leonard Gallanford (1931-????) y Evan Diaval Merton (1935-????)

¤ Sarah Elizabeth Gallanford (1935-????) y Juliette Liona Lancework (1933-????)

¤ Marjorie River Gallanford (1938-????) y Alder Amadeus Holecraft (1940-????)

¤ Edward Florian Longbottom (1934-????) y Augusta Margaret Longbottom (1936-????)

¤ Algie Lazarus Longbottom (1937-????) y Enid Verna Longbottom (1939-????)

¤ Daniel Vincent Longbottom (1942-????) y Coraline Eliza Longbottom (1945-????)

¤ Gabriel Roderick Weasley (1941-????) y Malia Juniper Lenington (1943-????)

¤ Norman Carlton Weasley (1945-????) y Doris Ariana Armstrong (1947-????)

¤ Arthur Marlon Weasley (1950-????) y Molly Elliana Prewett (1950-????)

¤ Casthora Aura Crouch (1934-????) y Aaron Leonard Luthor (1930-????)

¤ Aries Adeline Crouch (1937-????) y Theresa Rose Taylor (1935-????)

¤ Bartemius Crouch (1940-????) y Rebecca Maia Crouch (1941-????)

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle (1983-????) y julian Cameron Grey (1980-????)

¤ Theodore August Peters (1976-????) y Magnus Roman Watson (1978-????)

¤ Hazel Opal Peters (1983-????) y Meredith Mavis Monroe (1981-????)

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters (1997-????) y Sky Aurelius Peters (1997-????)

¤ Cora Stephanne Riddle (2005-????) y Alucard Magnus Holland (2002-????)

¤ Francis Ezra Riddle (2008-????) y Archibald Niven Allender (2008-????)

¤ Aaron Christopher Riddle (2012-???) y Verena Michelle Dyer (2010-????)

¤ Joshua Stephen Riddle (2013-????) y Esther Amalia Holt (2015-????)

¤ Charles Samuel Riddle (2016-????) y Ruby Stephanie Saffron (2018-????)

¤ Iris Aurelia Riddle (2018-????) y Marshall Everett Conrad (2016-????)

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson (1964-????) y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh (1962-????)

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardso (1968-????) y Henry Oliver Brooks (1966-????)

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson (1971-????) y Flynn Milo Wolf (1969-????)

¤ Willow Cosima Levin (1969-????) y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford (1967-????)

¤ Fern Violet Levin (1972-????) y Marie Honoria Ollivander (1970-????)

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin (1974-????) y John Florean Palmer (1972-????)

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin (1978-????) y Elladora Eloise Gibson (1975-????)

¤ Salazar Lucius Levin (1973-????) y Holly Avalon Barnes (1970-????)

¤ Eleanor Hope Levin (1977-????) y Savannah Genevieve Shaw (1975-????)

¤ Gracie Isadora Levin (1979-????) y Marvin Declan Sullivan (1983-????)

¤ Alec Aurelian Levin (1982-????) y Claire Piper Johan (1980-????)

¤ Mason Ezekiel Levin (1986-????) y Clementine Octavia Albion (1983-????)

¤ Lotor Comet Snape (????-????) y Giovanni Benjamin Lestrage (1974-????)

¤ "Moon Demon" Darius Angelo Snape (1973-????) y "Dark Angel" Arianne Alysson Snape

¤ "Killer Shadow" Lazarus Ignatius Snape (1973-????) y "Ice Demon" Urania Calliope Snape

¤ Morterius Snape (1973-???) y Hisirdoux Artemas Casperan (1098-????)

¤ Severina Tabitha Snape (1975-????) y Valentine Orion Dencort (1972-????)

¤ Ursa Destiny Snape (1975-????) y Vladimir Micah Masters (1964-????)

¤ Regulus Orion Snape (1977-????) y Angel Archibald Mountford (1975-????)

¤ Cygnus Arcturus Snape (1977-????) y Cassius Warrington (1977-????)

¤ Elle Rigel Snape (1979-????) y Touta Matsuda (1978-????)

¤ Beyond Aurelian Snape (1979-????) y Teru Mikami (1982-????)

¤ Emma Elizabeth Snape (1983-????) y Verna Clarissa Rawlinson (1981-????)

¤ Eileen Umbra Snape (1983-????) y Samara Enola Norton (1984-???)

¤ Ariel Kolithace Snape (1985-????) y Clementine Amarah Gorgon (1985-????)

¤ Alexander Valens Snape (1985-????) y Cassidy Vienna Keller (1987-????)

¤ Lysander Nikolaus Snape (1985-????) y Gabrielle Delacour (1986-????)

¤ Minerva Evangeline Snape (1986-????) y Alexia Mary Ray (1989-????)

¤ Walburga Aries Snape (1988-????) y Lynn Juniper Dumbar (1986-????)

¤ Druella Angelette Snape (1988-????) y Lazarus Julian Norton (1991-????)

¤ Raphaela Bellatrix Snape (1990-????) y Finnegan Glenn Gardens (1988-????)

¤ Selena Narcissa Snape (1993-????) y Barbara Rose Kidman (1996-????)

¤ Regris Niven Snape (2001-????) y Acxa Valda Snape (2003-????)

¤ Kevin Ethan Snape (2001-????) y Cooper Joseph Daniels (1999-????)

¤ Gwendolyn Hiroko Snape (1994-????) y Emily Flora Blunder (1997-????)

¤ Ezra Yamato Snape (1998-????) y Aidan Vincent Holdcroft (1999-????)

¤ Ryan Yoshio Snape (2001-????) y Janet Mary Eastmond (2008-????)

¤ Keith Akira Snape (2005-????) y James Griffin (2005-????)

¤ Mako Etha Snape (2006-????) y Patricia Harriet Smith (2009-????)

¤ Yuriko Edith Snape (2008-????) y Harvey Everett Aylesworth (2006-????)

¤ Morgana Kendra Voorhees (1973-????) y Carrie Margaret White (1970-????)

¤ Jessica Lorna Kimble (1980-????) y Steven Freeman (1978-???)

¤ Dante Dorian Nott

¤ Dominick Edgar Nott

¤ Theodore Phineas Nott (1979-????) y Pansy Genevieve Parkinson (1980-????)

¤ Audrey Andromeda Malfoy y Andre Perseus Bourgeois

¤ Gabriel Bastian Malfoy y Emilie Calliope Graham de Vanily

¤ Roynard Hydra Malfoy y Violet Rowena Deekers

¤ Raymond Lynx Malfoy y Cedric Atticus Diggory

¤ Draco Lucius Malfoy y Astoria Coraline Greengrass

¤ Marcus Malfoy

¤ Elias Malfoy

¤ Magenta Malfoy

¤ Daphne Malfoy

¤ Elladora Malfoy

¤ Garlan Malfoy

¤ Farlan Malfoy

¤ Merle Ariel Dixon y "Jesus" Paul Finnegan Rovia

¤ Hope Leah Dixon

¤ Carl Thomas Dixon

¤ Levi Armand Dixon

¤ Daryl Hunter Dixon y Rick Jonah Grimes

¤ Nigellus Aries Black

¤ Cygnus Alphard Black

¤ Walburga Vera Black

¤ Phineas Arcturus Black

¤ Cassius Florian Lovegood

¤ Myra Hestia Lovegood y

¤ Luna Pandora Lovegood

¤ Vitale Astaroth Sparda

¤ Neron Asura Sparda

¤ Merak Emory Sparda

¤ Armand Vincent Sparda

¤ Nicholas William Sparda

¤ Septimus Conan Sparda

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sonntagberlin · 3 months ago

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Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson // # # I AM NOT JUST A TOOL, I AM THE EMBODIMENT OF CAPITAL

Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson participated with # # I AM NOT JUST A TOOL, I AM THE EMBODIMENT OF CAPITAL at Sonntag, being hosted at a private apartment in Berlin-Neukölln, on Sunday 1. September 2024.

#sonntag berlin #nick crowe #ian rawlinson #social sculpture #art #kunst

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polymorphousculturevulture · 2 years ago

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Ian Rawlinson -The Travelers, 2022

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kasperdegraaf-blog1 · 8 years ago

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City identity: The Great Debate

The Bonded Warehouse is a looming presence in the middle of the old Granada Studios complex in Manchester city centre: a cavernous reminder of the industrial revolution, soon to be transformed into a hub for the kind of creative enterprise that is now forging the digital revolution.

That symbolism was compelling enough for David Cameron and George Osborne, in June 2014, to choose this place to enunciate their vision for a northern powerhouse: connecting the great cities of the north and unleashing regeneration by rebalancing the economy.

It was in the very same room that Manchester’s design community gathered in October 2016 for Design Manchester’s third annual Great Debate – the Tory posh boys having vacated the stage in a manner not of their choosing, with significant unanswered questions for those left behind to resolve.

On one thing most protagonists are agreed. Whatever Brexit and Theresa May’s ‘industrial strategy’ will turn out to mean, city devolution will have an important part to play, not least because that is the only train of the many mooted that has not only been built but actually left the station. In May 2017, there will be metro-Mayoral elections in nine city regions including Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and the West Midlands, each with its own devolution agreement.

Common ground also, among economists, educators and enterprise, is that if we are to create a successful narrative, the creative and digital industries will be at the heart of it.

The debate was chaired by Lou Cordwell, Founder and CEO of magneticNorth, member of GM LEP and chair of Design Manchester advisory board.

Skills

The first of the unanswered questions that comes into focus is the supply of skilled talent and quality jobs in Brexit Britain. The devolution agreements struck by the government vary from region to region, but all include some devolved power over skills training, now universally recognised as one of the great challenges. “How,” asked Penny Macbeth, Dean of Manchester School of Art, “can city stakeholders best work together to create opportunities for our young people and deliver the education and skills needed by industry, the city and the country?”

Penny Macbeth is the Dean of Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Penny’s challenge elicited a commitment from Mayoral candidate Andy Burnham, who feels the university route is overemphasised at the expense of other options.

“One thing I will do,” he pledged, “is build a UCAS-style clearing system that covers all the apprenticeships available across Greater Manchester, so that a young person in Oldham or Rochdale or Leigh, who at the moment is struggling to see what’s out there for them, can see apprenticeships somewhere else in the region that they could do.” Andy believes this will bring business, universities and colleges together in focusing on areas that need strengthening.

Emer Coleman pointed out that new jobs will largely come from technology and digital – and in this sector there are serious gender inequalities. Her suggestion was that the city should address this by funding the course fees for new software developers. “When people talk about an ‘industrial strategy’,” she said, “that’s talking to the past. We need to talk to the future: how do we build a robust engineering base in this city?” A laser-like focus on technology is what is needed, where the universities and local authorities take inequality seriously and put funding into apprenticeships for the future, not for the past.

Technology and design, Peter Mandelson agreed, are the things that make the most difference to urban life, adding that “digitalisation is going to do for us what electricity did in a previous era.” But will this lead to digital inclusion so that everyone can enjoy the benefits? Achieving that will require first-rate, different forms of digital education such as the proposed new International Screen School in Manchester, to meet the demand for technicians, programmers and designers generated by the digital revolution.

Lord Mandelson (left) is a former EU Trade Commissioner and UK cabinet minister. He is the Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University.

The old, top-down politics won’t cut it in this new environment, Ian Anderson warned. “A lot of young people are way more developed and advanced in the use of technology than some of the people who are looking to make policy,” he said. Politicians should do a lot more listening to kids who are growing up using social networks, and with design in different fields of technology.

Work and education are changing, Claire Mookerjee pointed out, not least due to rising costs. Lifelong learning and access to courses while working are critical. She was optimistic, however, about job prospects in design. “People who are educated in design are in roles that require empathy and understanding how to tackle questions analytically. These are not going to be automated,” she said. Manchester has great opportunities in advanced materials, an incredble digital creative economy, space and affordability. All this offers the prospect of more exciting business being embedded in the city.

Getting there presents a big challenge for education and training institutions to engage with business, Mike Rawlinson felt. Networking, partnerships and collaboration are key to creating opportunities for active continuous learning for people across all levels of society. The biggest difference Manchester can make, he added, is “to offer up a stage, not just to people locally, but nationally, to say there’s something good going on here.”

Mike Rawlinson (right) pioneered the ‘legible cities’ wayfinding methodology applied in cities all over the world. He is the founder and CEO of design consultancy City ID.

Brexit

Design Manchester has played an active part in formulating sector advice to the goverment to mitigate the risks and maximise the opportunities of Brexit for the creative industries. This debate was an opportunity to discuss it with the design community as a whole.

Paul Jonson of city law firm Pannone Corporate, who sponsored the Great Debate, reminded the gathering that Sadiq Khan has asked for a London seat at the Brexit table and pushed for London visas to maintain the capital’s growth and power. “To what extent,” he wondered, “can city identity and devolution mitigate the impact of Brexit – and how will it affect the creative industries?”

As a former EU Trade Commissioner, Peter is all too aware that a carve out for London will not wash. Whatever arrangements the government negotiates will have to work for every sector throughout the country. “There’s almost no part of our economy that isn’t directly or indirectly exposed to our membership of the European Union, through networks, ecosystems and value chains across borders,” he pointed out. “Brexit is essentially about disrupting those links.” It may not be so bad for businesses, which can relocate elsewhere in Europe if single market distribution is important for them. But it won’t be so easy for their employees and the people they leave behind, who won’t have that right to free movement.

“Progressively, over many years, there will be a colossal churn in business, research and development, and employment.” This brings us back to skills. “We have to invest in a huge amount more training of our own people to make sure we are not starved of talent, and invest in innovation on a scale we have never done before, or we won’t just lose our share of the European market but our competitive advantage in many different sectors.”

Emer Coleman (centre) is head of the Co-op’s tech engagement. She previously led digital engagement for the UK Government and also founded the London DataStore.

There’s “an arms race for talent in technology,” said Emer, so cutting off access to global talent will have a significant impact on startup growth. How can devolution help? “Devolution in England was not conceived as the answer to the referendum result,” Andy said, “but we must now embrace it as such.” National policy has for decades been shaped by the London perspective. Successive governments have ignored the impact of lost industries, absentee landlords and rising European immigration on former industrial communities. There may be a small percentage of people who voted Leave for xenophobic or racist reasons, but “the deeper feeling is: no-one’s looking at us or cares about us – it’s a profound cry for change in how the country is run.” So city devolution must be used to give people more solutions that are focused on them and their needs.

The role of the creative industries in forming a new narrative was picked up by Ian. “As creatives we’re supposed to deal with change,” he said. “If it’s true we’re out for good, the creative industries have to see this as a challenge and an opportunity to reposition ourselves. We can’t sit around moaning about it forever and we don’t have another option, so we may as well look at it positively and see what we can do.”

Ian Anderson (centre) is founder and creative director of the design group Designers Republic and one of the most influential graphic designers of the last three decades.

The city

Switching the focus to a topic that, arguably, is more directly under our control, Transport for Greater Manchester’s Lindsay Whitley argued that public space, buildings, neighbourhoods and transport are all key factors in how residents and visitors experience the city. “How,” she wanted to know, “can designers, techologists and architects improve the livability and usability of our cities?”

Fundamentally, Mike said, good cities are “accessible, legible, welcoming places and they should be as open as possible.” That means creating a rich tapestry with building footprints and spaces that work for people, and transport modes that work in partnership. Claire highlighted design interventions that can improve the city, such as more fine-grain open spaces at street level and removing cars from the centre.

Councillor David Ellison, the planning chair of Manchester City Council, questioned to what extent planning is helpful in areas other than transport, pointing out that the Northern Quarter, Chinatown and Rusholme, some of the great character districts of the city, weren’t planned from above but grew because of the people who were there. Planning should work with organic development of the city, agreed Peter. The old model of pre-ordained, scorched-earth zonal planning does not work. “Just as we bring new waves of creativity and design to everything else we do, we should also bring it to the way we organicaly allow the city to change, grow and connect together.” But active design intervention is needed too, said Andy. “We need design brains to go into Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Wigan and look at how they relate to the centre, to connect this city region up a bit more,” he said, describing this as the next phase of Greater Manchester’s work.

If art and creativity are such an important part of what makes Manchester attractive, then how, wondered Zoë Hitchen, a lecturer in the Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, can we make sure that “as Manchester develops, we retain affordable spaces for a sustainable network of artists and creatives in the city?”

This, Emer believes, is a key role for the City Council, to make sure they have planning policies and impose planning conditions “to ensure that the right mix is sustained.”

Big data

Manchester has received funding from Innovate UK to develop a large-scale demonstrator to evaluate use of the Internet-of-Things in cities – a two-year project called City Verve, which began in 2016. It underlines the strength of the city’s growing creative and digital hub, but how, asked Marketing Manchester’s Destination Director Sara Tomkins, does real-time and Open Data change our cities, and what is the role of design in making best use of new technology?

Emer was scathing about the “smart city” narrative we’ve had for nearly a decade, but which, she said “has achieved very little even in its rhetoric,” adding that it was “devised by large systems integrators like the Siemens, Ciscos and IBMs of this world who want to own the infrastructure of a city.” This was, she said, a very technocratic vision of what could be achieved.

“If we don’t move away from that narrative to a citizen-centred one, we will move further into a surveillance state, because not only our phones but everything around us is going to have sensors.” When a city wants to gather more data for reasons of efficiency, it tends not to be from a human perspective. “We need more livability discussions with citizens at the centre, about privacy and rights around data.”

As director of digital projects for the Mayor of London, Emer established the London Data Store, an initiative to put all of the city’s public service data into the public domain. “We always knew transport was going to be a game-changer,” she said. “So we began a collaborative project with a broad range of technologists and we see now that people can’t conceive of moving around without their cycle hire app or their bus app.

“We do not have the technological capabilities inside local governments. That’s why we need open, collaborative discussions with designers, creatives and technologists. If I had my choice I would stuff local authority planning teams full of designers and technologists. We need to bring that creativity right into the heart of the municipal authority.”

The important thing, Ian felt, is that people need a sense of ownership of their own space, of where they are in a city. “There are as many Manchesters as there are people in the city or visiting the city or even with the knowledge of the city,” he said, and the technology should support that.

The data revolution has to mean politics done differently, was Andy’s take. “If there was data on air quality every day in real time, people would be shocked because it’s very poor on Oxford Road and in other parts of Greater Manchester,” he said, and this would have an impact by empowering people to ask why, as happened when the data came out on cycling accidents in London.

What opportunities are created by generating masses of data, asked Peter. Apart from driving consumer choice, it can be used to redesign urban systems in areas such as health, traffic and energy, and to think through new policy solutions. “In future, those ideas have to come as much from startups using the data as from think tanks.”

Metro mayors

Manchester has a devolution agreement that covers a wide range of public services including transport, skills, police, planning and health. In May 2017 it elects an executive mayor, who will run a region comprising ten distinct local authorities. “What,” asked Ed Matthews-Gentle of Creative Lancashire, “will be the practical impact of devolution and metro mayors?”

Claire Mookerjee (left) is a designer, urbanist and feminist. She is head of Urban Futures at Future Cities Catapult and Built Environment Expert at Design Council.

Claire emphasised the power of narrative, saying that “talking about Manchester on the world stage as a creative and open place” will be a key role for the new mayor. For Emer the top issue is technology leadership. “Mayor Boris Johnson really did not get technology, but he provided terrific leadership in making London a city that gave a clear signal. We were opening our data, we were open for business, we understood tech.” So if Andy were to become mayor, she added, “you have a lot of people in this room who would be glad to give you some strong technology advice. I would urge you to put that at the core of what you are doing,” she added, “because it is the future of work.”

A new politics was the focus for Ian. ”There’s no point in just transferring power from one place to another place that happens to be closer to home. Devolution is the opportunity for everybody, particularly in the creative industries. We need to do something, not just wait for someone else to do it.”

What about the money though? Mike felt that without fiscal devolution – the ability to redistribute and raise taxes where appropriate, devolution will be a step along the road but won’t go as far as it could. In this area, he said, the mayor must go on challenging the status quo.

Andy Burnham (left) is MP for Leigh and Labour candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester. He is a former health secretary and culture secretary.

Andy, as it turned out, had given the matter some considerable thought – and concluded after 15 years in the place, that Parliament isn’t going to fix the problems or bring about the things people want for Greater Manchester, because, as he put it, “it’s fundamentally dysfunctional”. He paid tribute to George Osborne for putting in place a fundamental change that has the potential to rebalance the country and lead to things being done differently.

“Everyone’s probably feeling cynical and despondent about politics at the moment,” he said, “but this is a bit of a life raft.” More change is possible, but “it’s going to be what we make it, not through politicians coming up with strategy documents, but by involving people and giving a sense that policy can be changed.” A key factor is cooperation between cities. “The north needs to find its political power in these post-Brexit times,” he concluded. “It’s not what power politicians give it, but what power people give it in terms of the demand to do things differently that the government won’t be able to ignore.”

This feature was first published in Document 16: Design City, the Design Manchester magazine, distributed to Creative Review subscribers in February/March 2017.

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neoscenes · 8 years ago

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For an Interactive Art - Ian Rawlinson

For an Interactive Art - Ian Rawlinson #FAT #OutpostBiennale #1995

This essay, by London-based artist Ian Rawlinson, mentions a project I was involved with Clive Sall and Emma Davis called Outpost which appeared at the Venice Biennale (1996) and the Edinburgh Festival (1994?).

In this paper I want to concentrate on a form of public art practice which takes as its point of departure the social interactions involved in its processes and production. I would like…

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theleaderdotinfo-blog · 6 years ago

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Costa Blanca South Bowls Roundup has been published at http://www.theleader.info/2019/04/14/costa-blanca-south-bowls-roundup-7/

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Costa Blanca South Bowls Roundup

La Marina Bowls with Chris Bould Monday 08 - 09 - 19 saw the beginning of the Summer Trips. La Marina were at home to San Luis. W2 L2 D1, the points were 7 for and 5 against. Shots were 100 for and 80 against. An excellent result as La Marina got off to quite a poor start but came good. The two winning rinks were Kathy Manning, Roy Hart and John Morgan, 27 - 12; Maureen and Dave Taylor and Mike Stone, 24 - 12. Reg Jackson, Cliff Rawlinson and Dave Hadaway picked up three on the last end to earn a well deserved draw, 16 - 16. The rink of Barbara Forshaw, Dave McGaw and Maureen Kidd went into the last end 18 - 18, but lost by one shot. All in all not a bad start for La Marina. L M B C wishes all our competitors in the Champion of Champions the best of luck. That’s all folks. SAN LUIS BOWLS CLUB REPORT 12.04.19. By Sheila Cammack The Champion of Champions tournament is running from Monday 15th-Sunday 21st at San Miguel, + Vistabella on Monday & Tuesday; we wish all our players the very best of luck. Monday 8th SL Wellingtons v SM Christians, 10-2, 105 shots-78. Winners: Kath Reid, Neil Morrison, Ian Kenyon 20-14, Colin Jackson, June & Keith Jones 26-18, Pam Lockett, Giuseppe Galelli, Brian Pocock 18-10, Margaret Morrison, Sabrina & Russell Marks 23-14. Thursday 11th v Vistabella Fairways SL Wellingtons; 8-4, 87 shots-68. Winners: Bob White, Ann Holland, Neil Morrison 26-11, Colin Jackson, June & Keith Jones 14-9, Kath Reid, Pam Lockett, Ian Kenyon 17-14. SL Hercules v LM Pilots 80 shots-100, 5-7. Winners: Ros Holmes, Peter Fuller, Brenda Brown 21-15, Ray Watmough, Bill Webb, Derrick Cooper 19-18, Judy Carroll, Mags Haines, Les Bedford 16-16. SL Mosquitoes v ER Buckskins, 8-4, 101 shots-72. Winners: Chris Jackson, Chris Lythe, Sue Ross 23-14, Val Lever, Mary Fromson, Ken Dullaway 25-7, Dennis Jackson, Robert Hicks, Tom Fromson 23-7. Wednesday 10th Winter League: v Quesada, 98shots-87, 8-4. Winners: Irene Everett, Pam Lockett, June & Keith Jones 23-10, Kath Reid, Margaret & Neil Morrison, Ian Kenyon 19-13, Jan Pocock, Barry Edwards, Sabrina & Russell Marks 28-11. San Luis BC would welcome more new members. Anyone who has played against SLBC, whether home or away, will know that we are a friendly, social, club; competitive at all levels, whilst also enjoying our bowling. Despite the recent change agreed at the LLB AGM, that a side will comprise 6 teams, we are still determined and committed to playing 4 squads in both the Monday & Friday leagues. For the coming season it looks as though we will have 2 squads in both Division A and Division C on both days. There will be plenty of games for everyone and opportunities for players of all levels of experience. We have an established open and fair selection policy for all divisions. League entries have to be in by mid-August. If you commit to playing for us by joining on 1st August you will have 13 months membership to 31.8.20. We also have 7 months membership from 1.10.19-30.4.20. Come along & bowl for free on any Sunday morning at 10:00am to try the game….ask at the bar. For further information please contact our Club Captain June Jones – 691 903 773 or Vice-Captain Ian Kenyon – 662 282 103. We look forward to hearing from you. San Miguel Bowls Club - Barry Jones On Monday San Miguel Moors were home to Emerald Isle Victors losing 4 - 8 (82 shots for & 89 shots against) the best winning triple were Sue Miller, Don Whitney and Lee Sinclair 24 - 10. San Miguel Christians were away to San Luis Wellingtons losing 2 - 10 (78 shot for & 105 shots against) the best winning triple were Bob Nesbit, Derek Farmer and Dave Champion 22 - 18. On Wednesday the last Winter League game was played with San Miguel at home to La Siesta, where they had a great win 11 - 1 (117 shots to 59). The best winning rink were Don Whitney, Dave Johnson, Gail Willshire and Fred Willshire 28 - 4. A reminder that the Wasps sessions will not take place this Wednesdays, due to the Club hosting the Champion of Champions competition, back to normal next week. For further information on San Miguel Bowls Club please contact the President Stuart Hemmings on 965720461, or the Secretary Gail Willshire on 965020492. Vistabella Bowls sponsored by TV Choice, Venture Fleet & Beniconnect. With Lynne Bishop A quieter week with the lead up to the Champion of Champions competition due to begin on Monday 15th, we wish all our representative good luck, please go along and support your friends. SAL SPITFIRE League Fairways started their campaign this week with two games, the first was at home against Quesada Blenheims where they kicked off with very good result. Our winning rinks..one which was due to the opposition failing to field a full side, the others wins were from the teams of Alan Whitley, Barry Norris & Maggie Furness 19-10. Del Gunning, Neil Burrows & Martin Foulcer 18-10 and Lynne Bishop, StJohn Broadhurst & Eric Bishop 15-13. Shots, VB 75(10) - 57(2) Q Later in the week the Fairways played a rearranged home match against San Luis Wellingtons, the game was very even on most rinks but we only finished with two wins, they were from the teams of Lynne Bishop, Peter Rees & Eric Bishop 18-16 and Lin Watkins, Charlie Watkins & Maggie Furness16-14. Shots, VB 68(4) - 87(8) SL. HARRIER League Greeners played the Hornets at La Siesta and enjoyed another great result, four wins from the teams of Olwyn Ratcliffe, Stuart Allman & Brian Dunn 32-5. Steve Wilson, Sue Jenkins & Sue Wilson 23-14. Stan Dibble, Bert Ewart & Pat Rafferty 20-18. Rosemarie Savage, Ken Savage & Avril Kendal 21-19. Shots, VB 113(10) -73(2) LS. The concluding games in the Vistabella Open was unfortunately rained off. The match Secretary agreed a monetary settlement with all the teams. Thank you Arthur & Barbara Brown for your hard work. Emerald Isle Bowls Club with Elwyn Morris Dukes played at San Luis Falcons in VCL and were beaten 4-8 aggregate 88-91. Winners were, P Rhodes 21-20, D Gerrard 21-13 Sat saw the Annual Les Mc Cracken Trophy game played. Thanks to all the visiting clubs for taking part again in this competition. The visitors Cup was won by Quesada and the Emerald Isle rink of C Smyth L Freeman R White M Odell won the Shield. Well done all Victors travelled to San Miguel Moors and had a good 8-4 aggregate 89-82 win. M Riley S Watson J Mulloy 24-10, G Shoots M Breen P Coffey 21-16, C Ayling G Odell M Odell 17-14 Vulcans played at home against Greenlands Gladiators and had a fine 10-2 aggregate 93-68, winners were M Willicott D Leeming J Pooley 23-10, C Thomas T Dix P Willicott 25-13, L Freeman B Eldred G Ponsford 17-13, V Cameron H Rhodes P Dix 14-11 Greenlands Bowls Club by Dave Webb The start of the new season saw the Gladiators away to the Emerald Isle Vulcans, a good start was made on all rinks but were unable to maintain the momentum resulting in just the one rink won and four lost. Final score, shots 68 - 93. points 2 - 10. winning rink - T Powell, D Toozer, skip J Obrien. 21 - 14. In the Harrier Division, the Glosters were at home to Country Bowls Badgers. A good start to the season with an excellent win, final score was, shots 94 - 85. points, 9 - 3. Best winning rink were C Stobbart, R Wattley, skip G Stobbart. 23 = 14. In the winter league we travelled up the AP7 to Bonalba, The wind was making things difficult for all the players but that made the games more interesting. Final scores were, shots 76 - 95. Points, 5 - 7. best winning rink goes to C Rudge, J Hier,L Rudge, skip D Toozer. 16 - 14. This being the final match of the Winter League leaves us in a better position than were in last season so well done everyone especially to the players who filled the breach at short notice. No report next week as its the Champion of champions all week, please support our entrants when you can, it does make a difference. For all inquires please contact Chris Dewar on 698418987, or visit our website..greenlands-bowls.wixsite.com/greenlandsbowlsclub HORADADA BOWLS CLUB by Irene Graham On Monday the summer season started for the South Alicante Hurricane Division under beautiful, warm blue skies. The Horadada Hawks were at home to La Siesta Wasps. The match was played in good spirits and enjoyed by all. Two of the rinks were hard fought throughout with a nail biting finish for the Hawks. We even had a visit from our regular squirrel who comes to give us his support! We managed to win on three rinks but the overall shots went to La Siesta. Our winning rinks were: Janet Jukes, Mark Jukes and Barry Evans 17 – 15 Jenny Davis, John Goddard and Wayne Jackson 21 – 19 Tracey Paffett, Ken Barber and Bryan Eatough 27 – 12 Very well played to these players who managed to come through with the win in the end. The final result was a draw with 85 shots for to 94 against giving both teams 6 points. The next league match is not until 22 April as the Champion of Champions tournament starts today 15 April. We wish all of our entrants the very best of luck in all disciplines for this annual event. Horadada offers a warm welcome to new or experienced bowlers, and provides the necessary equipment. Our roll-up days for this friendly club are Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings. Please contact Fred Trigwell on 659139129 for more information.

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May prepares to open historic debate as ECJ opinion encourages anti-Brexit campaigners – Politics live | Politics

Skip to main content switch to the International edition switch to the UK edition switch to the US edition switch to the Australia edition current edition: International edition The Guardian – Back to home Support The Guardian Contribute Subscribe Contribute Search jobs Sign in My account Comments & replies Public profile Account details Emails & marketing Membership Contributions Digital Pack Sign out Search News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More News World news UK news Science Cities Global development Football Tech Business Environment Obituaries Opinion The Guardian view Columnists Cartoons Opinion videos Letters Sport Football Rugby union Cricket Tennis Cycling F1 Golf US sports Culture Books Music TV & radio Art & design Film Games Classical Stage Lifestyle Fashion Food Recipes Love & sex Health & fitness Home & garden Women Family Travel Money What term do you want to search? Search with google Make a contribution Subscribe International edition switch to the UK edition switch to the US edition switch to the Australia edition Search jobs Dating Holidays Digital Archive The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Newsletters Today’s paper Inside the Guardian The Observer Guardian Weekly Crosswords Facebook Twitter Search jobs Dating Holidays Digital Archive World Europe US Americas Asia Australia Middle East Africa Inequality Cities Global development More Politics live with Andrew Sparrow Politics Theresa May opens main Brexit debate after three Commons defeats – as it happened Rolling coverage of the day’s politics, as Theresa May opens five-day debate on Brexit deal Full Brexit legal advice to be published after government loses vote BBC cancels Brexit debate plans What happens if May’s deal is rejected? Updated Play Video 0:00 Theresa May opens main Brexit debate after Commons defeats – watch live Andrew Sparrow and Kevin Rawlinson Tue 4 Dec 2018 22.38 GMT First published on Tue 4 Dec 2018 09.09 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Key events Show 6.52pm GMT 18:52 May says search for ‘perfect Brexit’ should not prevent a ‘good Brexit’ 6.34pm GMT 18:34 May announces plans to give parliament greater role in next stage of UK’s negotiation with EU 6.11pm GMT 18:11 26 Tory MPs who voted for Grieve amendment 6.13pm GMT 18:13 4 Labour MPs who voted against Grieve amendment 5.50pm GMT 17:50 Theresa May opens main Brexit debate 5.57pm GMT 17:57 May says Brexit divisions ‘corrosive’ and ‘life depends on compromise’ 5.46pm GMT 17:46 MPs vote to ensure Commons gets chance to vote for ‘plan B’ Brexit option in January if necessary Live feed Show 9.02pm GMT 21:02 Evening summary We’re going to close down this live blog now. Here’s a summary of the most important events on a damaging day for the government: Theresa May suffered defeats in the Commons over her approach to Brexit. First, the government was found in contempt of parliament , in a historic move, over the refusal to publish the full Brexit legal advice. Ministers said it would be produced tomorrow. Then the government lost a vote over an amendment that would give MPs the chance to vote on a plan B if May’s Brexit deal is rejected. The prime minister sought to defend her deal, saying the Brexit divisions had been “corrosive”. She cast the deal as one that met the UK’s requirements, while compromising in some areas – and, perhaps more importantly, the only deal on offer. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said his party would not back the deal, saying it provided no certainty. He said, more generally, that ministers should be ashamed of the state they had left the country in. And, turning to the deal itself, he said it was “not the deal the country was promised and parliament cannot and, I believe will not accept it”. You can read our full story here: Theresa May staggers on after three Brexit defeats in single day Read more Updated at 10.38pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 8.36pm GMT 20:36 Closing, Blackford calls for a separate arrangement for Scotland, saying one has been handed to Northern Ireland once Brexit comes about next year. He says Scotland has been “ignored, sidelined and undermined” during the Brexit negotiations and calls for Scottish independence from the UK. Updated at 8.37pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 8.12pm GMT 20:12 When asked by Daniel Kawczynski , the UK’s first Polish-born MP, whether his pro-immigration stance would “give wind to Ukip’s sails”, Blackford said: I simply say we need to take these arguments on – migration has enriched us. The thought we would take up the drawbridge and stop people coming to participate in the growth of our country is quite fundamentally repugnant to me. Updated at 8.33pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 8.10pm GMT 20:10 The SNP’s Westminster leader, Ian Blackford , says he is proud to be a citizen of the EU and introduces a friend of his from Amsterdam, who is in the Commons gallery. He says that friendship came about as a result of the rights afforded him as a citizen of the bloc. Those rights are to be given away and the UK to become and inward-looking country as a result of Brexit , he says. Facebook Twitter Google plus 8.04pm GMT 20:04 Johnson ends, saying he fears parliament is “trying to cheat” the British people and predicting that politicians will be clearly seen as doing so if they back Theresa May’s deal. Updated at 8.14pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 7.54pm GMT 19:54 Johnson is getting on to his solution. He says the government should go back to Brussels and say the UK should say it wants a deal if it can get one. But we will not accept the backstop, he says. The former foreign secretary says the new partnership talks would be a better forum for talks about the arrangements in the island of Ireland and they should be left until then. He says half of the money agreed upon should be withheld initially. Updated at 7.56pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 7.43pm GMT 19:43 Johnson is accused by Sir Roger Gale of being someone who “prefers the grievance to the solution”. May has come up with a solution, he is told, “what is his big idea?” He is he will get to that soon. More on that when it comes in. Updated at 8.01pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 7.39pm GMT 19:39 Back in the chamber, Johnson – who has been saying the EU would have the power to simply refuse to release the UK from the backstop – is asked if he takes no responsibility, as a senior leave campaigner and former foreign secretary. The fact is I’m afraid I was not able to continue to support this process. He is reminded he initially supported May’s Chequers agreement, before deciding later to resign over it. Johnson had been saying: They will keep us in permanent captivity as a memento mori, as a reminder to the world of what happens to all those who try to leave the EU. This is a recipe for blackmail and it’s open to any member of the EU to name its price for Britain’s right to leave the backstop. The Spanish will make a play for Gibraltar, the French will go for our fish and our bankers, the Germans may well want some concessions on the free movement of EU nationals and so it goes on. Updated at 7.50pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 7.37pm GMT 19:37 The Conservative MP, Dominic Grieve , has been speaking about his amendment outside the Commons chamber, which passed earlier this afternoon. Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) Dominic Grieve tells Sky News “Can’t guarantee that No Deal is off the table but a device that was trying to manoeuvre us towards No Deal is off the table” pic.twitter.com/CWeVRvbFvt December 4, 2018 Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) Grieve: it gives me no pleasure to defeat the Government – I have no desire to undermine the PM – but the only way to work through this is to debate all the options December 4, 2018 Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) On a No confidence vote you side with Government? Grieve: of course I do December 4, 2018 Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) Grieve: if this deal is passed by Parliament it won’t resolve anything – divisions will continue past March 29th… We need to extend A50 in order to have another referendum… remain option needs to be on the ballot paper. December 4, 2018 Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) Tested the “ECJ/ Grieve amendment means no No Deal and perhaps No Brexit so ERGers will vote for May’s Deal to get some Brexit theory” with a top Tory Brexiter. “No chance, it’s an affront to democracy, I’m voting against for my daughter”. December 4, 2018 Updated at 7.42pm GMT Facebook Twitter Google plus 7.35pm GMT 19:35 The former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson , is on his feet. He says there is no support for May’s deal. The former culture secretary, Ed Vaizey , rises to disagree. Johnson relents, but says both remainers and leavers – even the whole Johnson family – is united in the belief that this is a bad deal. 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25 Beautiful & Stunning Photos of Bridges from Around the World

A bridge makes a great subject for your photography – they are dramatic and have loads of leading lines you can use for composition. Bridges can be amongst some of the most stunning man-made structures in the world. So for today’s photography inspiration we look at 25 stunning photos of bridges taken around the world.

Commonwealth Avenue Bridge

Commonwealth Avenue Bridge by Sam Ilić

Khaju Bridge, Isfahan

Khaju Bridge, Isfahan by Hamed Saber

toronto sunrise

toronto sunrise by paul bica

Bridge over troubled water (Explore)

Bridge over troubled water (Explore) by Bert Kaufmann

London Bridge (Tower Bridge) : Reflection on the River Thames

London Bridge (Tower Bridge) : Reflection on the River Thames by Anirudh Koul

Bhumibol Bridge (สะพานภูมิพล) – Bangkok

Bhumibol Bridge (สะพานภูมิพล) – Bangkok by MikeBehnken

reflections of sydney

reflections of sydney by paul bica

Low tide and fog – Powder Point Bridge

Low tide and fog – Powder Point Bridge by joiseyshowaa

ZUBIZURI

ZUBIZURI by PIKAPLE

Calatrava bridge at a local highway exit – shoulder

Calatrava bridge at a local highway exit – shoulder by ecatoncheires

National Carillon In Canberra

National Carillon In Canberra by Sam Ilić

Puente Colgante 2

Puente Colgante 2 by Claudio.Ar

Inscope Arch

Inscope Arch by Diego3336

Firenze by me #3

Firenze by me #3 by angelocesare

Steps

Steps by Jan Tik

Royal Border Bridge.

Royal Border Bridge. by Jonathan Combe (on and off)

Autumn Bridge

Autumn Bridge by The Nick Page

straight down

straight down by Pedro Moura Pinheiro

South Bridge

South Bridge by Ian Sane

fireworks over the manhattan bridge

fireworks over the manhattan bridge by Barry Yanowitz

Bridge under troubled skies

Bridge under troubled skies by pattoise

Mrs Macquaries point

Mrs Macquaries point by stevoarnold

Granville Bridge

Granville Bridge by ecstaticist

Steel Town

Steel Town by ecstaticist

Lions Gate Bridge at Sunrise

Lions Gate Bridge at Sunrise by Duncan Rawlinson

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Task 3- The visit to BALTIC art gallery

I went to a to a trip to the BALTIC art gallery where I saw award winning artists including those working within the medium of video. While i was there, I took notes and pictures while I got a tour by a Baltic staff member. I asked many questions and picked up many leaflets to take home as part of my research, to get inspiration from the artists creative ideas. During my time at the Baltic I was watching a short film called Song for Amageddon 2017 by Nick Grove and Ian Rawlinson. This short instulation piece was a collaboration between both Grove and Rawlinson, their work is drawn to the ways which power and authority articulate themselves, it often involves densely layered visual and acoustic refrences to faith, politics, national identity and the enviroment. This piece in particular is based in a place called Armageddon which is located in northern Israel that lends it name to the end of the world. The area itself, Tel Megiddo, is known for seeing the most battles than any other place in the world, its dominated with military. Its hellish sodium-lit enviroment provides the perfect setting for the short film, it features mostly landscapes which involves the outdoors, natural light (sun set) and natural beauty. Its about a group of workers endlessly set out and wipe down thousands of chairs for an unknown audience whom is waitng for sunrise. It mostly focuses on the structure of the chairs (such as the legs, heads, rests), this delivers a peacefull atmosphere in a violent place. This contrast makes the viewer confused due to how the atmosphere and enviroment are extremely diverse and cant link the two together. There are many densely layered and acoustic refrences, for example, the sound of the ladys vocals and the intense banging of drums cause discomfort, this helps reflect on the clear messages shown throughout the film as it all relates to faith, national identity, politics and the enviroment. The film-makers havent communicated to the audience through voice as there is no fixed narrator, this is why some viewers get confused with the structure of this film. This is because there is alot of repititon and no pace due to the shots lasting longer, this means that its different to main stream movies because of the duration and the treatment of time. This may be why its target audience is an older generation due to how its viewed as a bit of a puzzle and the film-makers have designed this because a typical adult treats it as a puzzle and can identify hidden meanings and messages. I have also looked at the www.balticplus.uk website for further inspiration for my research, I selected various photos too, some from my own camera roll and others from the website. Many images are by various artists, they each have a different and diverse theme/concepts that have inspired me for this project (My North. For instance there are photos of odd objects and items such as Eric Macks abstract piece based on fabrics, its shown me that even though its extremely unsual that it is vital due to its emphasis of meaning and messages. His work explores the nature of painting and what painting can be, it affirms that the idea of beauty is not futile and that art can communicate a system of value or purpose or culture. Personally, I think that his work is very aesthetically pleasing and invites the eye too help construct a story. I interpreted it as that these everyday items translates into everyday experiences which makes it very personal to me, this is where I had my own ideas about filiming and how I need to make this short film personal to me. This is why I included some of the various activities that I take part in weekly such as water skiing and jet skiing, its unique to me so therefore my viewers can immediately identify what kind of a person I am. Another piece that I was inpsired by was by Tom Schmale by how she brought sculptures into her work, it was carefully arranged to influence how the audience interacts both with architecture of the gallery and the works on display. Overall it gave off a tense and unsettling atmosphere, however I used this idea in My North by marking the sand as an introduction but I wanted this to give off a different atmosphere in order to match the enviroment. Her sculptures are machine like and tactile which is clever as they encourage the viewer to touch or feel the materials, it all links to gender roles and hierarchies within society and how these can manifest in our daily lives. In my opnion, Schmale wanted to highlight how deadly these sculptures look and threatening by how command the attention of those who encounter them and capture the human eye, they can seem overbearing and impose on the space around them and heavily grounded.

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Perpetual Uncertainty. Inhabiting the atomic age

Nuclear cultures, its promises, dangers and dilemmas, are never far away from media headlines. Sometimes the stories are terrifying (as in Kim and the Donald fighting over the title of “World’s Most Irresponsible Leader”.) Other times, the stories echo events or political choices from the past: radioactive waste that keeps on piling up, toxic legacies of European bomb tests in its African colonies, seaborne radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster detected on the U.S. West Coast, etc.

Perpetual Uncertainty, an exhibition that opened a few weeks ago at Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, reminds us that the nuclear forms the backdrop of our lives, for thousands of generations to come. And even beyond.

The show brings together artists from across Europe, the USA and Japan to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and deep time.

Perpetual Uncertainty is amazingly informative and stimulating. It helps the public face its anxieties by visualizing every material and immaterial aspect of nuclear technology: the extraction of uranium from the ground, the production of energy, the repercussions of deliberate and accidental explosions and the thorny subject of radioactive waste. Through each of work in the show and each aspect they explore we get to realize how much man-made radiation has transformed our understanding of materiality, knowledge and time.

While the exhibition helps us comprehend what it means to inhabit the atomic, it also leaves space for the impasses and dilemmas that characterizes nuclear culture, a subject which, as we know, still brings far more questions than answers.

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Courageous, 2016

Suzanne Treister, NATO, 2004-2008. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Z33 is an ideal venue for a reflection on nuclear culture. First, because Z33 is a research-based institution that explores the critical perspectives that art, design and architecture can add to the understanding of the contemporary challenges and dilemma that society is facing today.

Furthermore, Z33 is located in Hasselt, Belgium. Now you might not automatically associate Belgium with nuclear blasts. Yet, the country is disturbingly linked to the bombs that were dropped on Japan by the U.S.A. back in 1945. At the time, Belgium had made itself incredibly rich by extracting the mineral resources of its colony, the Belgian Congo. One of the mines was located in Shinkolobwe and had been identified as a source of uranium. The quality of the mineral was so high that it was sold to the U.S. and supplied nearly a large part of the uranium used in the bomb dropped over Hiroshima, and much of the related product of plutonium that went into the one that destroyed Nagasaki.

Here’s a few lines about some of the works in the show:

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Kuannersuit, Kvanefjeld, 2016

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Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Kuannersuit, Kvanefjeld, 2016

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Kuannersuit, Kvanefjeld, 2016. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway, Kuannersuit, Uranium ore from the experimental mine at Kvanefjeld, 2016. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

The region of Kvanefjeld in southern Greenland is the site of rich rare earth mineral resources and large deposits of uranium. It is also a place of incredible beauty with unspoiled mountains, wooden houses and deep blue fjords.

Foreign mining companies have shown great interest in Kvanefjeld and a recent relaxation of regulations by the government of Greenland has opened up the possibility of creating an open pit mine there.

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway spent the summer 2016 traveling in South Greenland, meeting residents, politicians, farmers and government officials and uncovering the deep divisions surrounding the mining project.

For some, the mining activity is a means of gaining autonomy from Denmark and keeping younger generations employed.

However, opponents to the project believe that courting foreign investors amounts to swapping one form of dependency for another, with the added risk of environmental degradation, health hazard for the community and their livestock as well as a threat to traditional ways of living from the land and the sea.

According to environmentalist NGOs, the mining project does not ensure that environmental risks are reduced as much as is practically possible. For example, polluting tailings from the refinery are disposed of in Lake Taseq high up in the Narsaq valley river system. From here, there is a high risk that radioactive isotopes and toxic chemicals will enter the groundwater, rivers, fiords and the sea.

The divisions within the local communities illuminate the dilemmas of our times and underline that the quest for energy and ‘progress’ has trade-offs and costs for society and the whole ecosystem.

Yelena Popova, Unnamed (Video still), 2011

Yelena Popova’s Unnamed video essay combines personal and archival footage to relate the story of her hometown in Russia.

Ozyorsk (codenamed City 40) was a “secret” town, built to accommodate the scientists and technicians of a plutonium factory along with their family. The residents were forbidden from leaving the city or making any contact with the outside world. For decades, this city of 100,000 people did not appear on any maps.

The government went to great lengths to ensure that the city’s occupants would be content with their secluded lives: they enjoyed high quality healthcare and education, generous wages, beautiful buildings and parks as well as well-stoked grocery stores.

The film goes on to reveal how, in 1957, the plant was the site of the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, the third-most serious nuclear accident ever recorded. The Soviet managed to keep the explosion secret for years. It’s only in 1976 that scientist Zhores Medvedev made the nature and extent of the disaster known to the world.

As the film develops, the representation of the disaster becomes a metaphor for the failure of science in the twentieth century and the difficulty to both understand a phenomenon (thus comprehending its details) and knowing it (by being aware of its consequences and significance).

Today, the city of Ozyorsk is still home to most of Russia’s nuclear reserves and people living in the area remain exposed to high levels of radiation.

David Mabb, A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament combines William Morris fabrics with anti-nuclear symbols and slogans. The association is less arbitrary than it might seem. The British Ministry of Defence used the Morris Tudor Rose print (1883) for over thirty years (from the 1960s through to the 1990s) to furnish the officers’ quarters inside its nuclear submarines.

In 2014, David Mabb visited one of those submarines, the decommissioned HMS Courageous which the public can now visit naval dockyard in Plymouth, on the southwest coast of England.

Famous 19th century socialist Morris would have probably been upset to see his designs used inside instruments of war and violence. Mabb reappropriates Morris’ fabrics and pairs them with anti-nuclear protest signs and slogans from different times and countries.

The works are presented on old-school freestanding projection screens. Distributed over two exhibition rooms, they look like an actual protest march.

As Mabb explained the title of the work in The Bulletin:

The work is called A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament.” “Provisional” because Britain’s Conservative government has—despite considerable opposition—decided to go ahead with the commissioning of a new generation of Trident nuclear submarines armed with nuclear missiles. And just last week, it confirmed that it is going to proceed with Hinkley Point, the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain for two decades.

Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, Temporary Index (Dessel), 2017. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Will people in a distant future be aware of radioactive sites? Will they understand the language we try to develop now to warn them of the danger? Thomson and Craighead’s Temporary Index is a totem that marks both time and space.

First, the totem acts as a signpost, mapping the distance between Z33 and the Category A Radioactive Waste Facility to be built at Dessel, 44km from the gallery.

Temporary Index also counts down the seconds that remain before the nuclear waste facility is finally deemed safe for humans. The numbers displayed on the screen are overwhelming. Yet, the radioactive substances they point to have a super short life compared to others. They are low-level radioactive waste that will require ‘only’ 300 years until they no longer represent a threat. Other waste disposal facilities have to provide protection for over hundreds of thousands of years, which far outstrips the understanding that most of us have of time.

Temporary Index, Chernobyl Reactor #4, Ukraine, an earlier version of the Temporary Index, was exhibited at the Perpetual Uncertainty show in Umea last year. It marked the distance from the museum to the Chernobyl reactor and visualized the 20,000 years of radioactive decay necessary for the Ukrainian location to be safe, providing us with a glimpse into the vast time scales that define the universe in which we live, but which also represent a future limit of humanity’s temporal sphere of influence.

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Isao Hashimoto, 1945-1998 (video still), 2003

Isao Hashimoto’s video doesn’t need much explanation. His video plots on a map every single known nuclear test and explosion that took place across the world from 1945 until 1998. 2053 in total. It’s shocking to discover how gaily the UK and France have tested their nuclear weapons in distant territories.

Shimpei Takeda, Trace. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Shimpei Takeda, Trace

Shimpei Takeda used photo-sensitive material to physically expose the traces of radiation present in the samples of the contaminated soils he collected throughout the landscape surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

He used no camera for the photographic process. He simply placed the radioactive soils on photo-sensitive films in a light-tight container and left them there for a month. Radioactive substances emit radioactivity to expose gelatin halide on the surface of photographic film.

The number and size of the white dots are proportional to the amount of radiation present in the soil.

Shuji Akagi, Decontamination of My Yard, Fukushima City, 2013

Shuji Akagi, Fukushima City, 2011-2017. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011, Shuji Akagi has been documenting the changes his hometown is going through. Most of his images feature big plastic blue or green bags and tarps. They seem to be everywhere: in the streets, in the fields, in people’s backyard, etc. They are filled with contaminated soil. In his photos you also see how people have resumed their daily life. Only now they have to navigate around the plastic-wrapped manifestation of invisible radiation.

It has been estimated that the decontamination process could take more than 100 years.

More works and images from the exhibition:

Dave Griffiths, Deep Field (UnclearZine), 2016. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Eva and Franco Mattes, The Last Film, 2016. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Ken & Julie Yonetani, Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations, 2013. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Wilson, Cumbrian Alchemy, 2013. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Exhibition view of Perpetual Uncertainty at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Cécile Massart, Laboratoires, 2013. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Cécile Massart, Colours of Danger for Belgian High-Level Radioactive Waste, 2017. Exhibition view at Z33. Photo by Kristof Vrancken

Kota Takeuchi, Take Stone Monuments Twice, 2013-2016

Kota Takeuchi, Take Stone Monuments Twice, 2013-2016. Photo via z33 research

Kota Takeuchi, Take Stone Monuments Twice, 2013-2016. Photo via artsy

Nuclear Culture presents: Perpetual Uncertainty is at Z33 in Hasselt until 10 December 2017. Entrance is free.

More photos from the exhibition on Z33 flickr set and on mine.

Perpetual Uncertainty is produced by Bildmuseet, Umeå and curated by Ele Carpenter with the support of Z33 and Arts Catalyst London.

Related stories: Sonic Radiations. A nuclear-themed playlist commissioned by Z33 for the exhibition and The Nuclear Culture Source Book.

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