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Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Sep 21, 2020

Is innovation overvalued? It is the dominant ideology of our era. But what if building, maintenance and repair prove much more important to our daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations? 

Co-founder of The Maintainers, a research group focused on maintenance, repair, infrastructure and mundane 


Sep 6, 2020

One of the last bastions of acceptable discrimination is against fat people. Health arguments reinforce the social and cultural pressure to avoid fatness at all costs. But is it possible to imagine things differently and help women to escape from the complex web of body image, food and weight concerns? 

Sarai Walker...