Well it’s been a few days since I’ve updated everyone on the site so it’s about time. We’ve been busy battling rain and all sorts of technical difficulties, the main one being that we haven’t streamed anything live and we’re working hard on post production stuff from the footage that we were able to grab. […]
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An old friend was talking on television the other day about where he is at and what he has been up to. Will Bentinck, along with two other friends – Jes Haley and Grant Crozier – were sitting in the Rochester Castle pub in Stoke Newington many years ago when the idea of Ragged University crystallised….
The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) invited people and communities to submit “innovative, daring idea’s” for cross-sectoral collaboration which engages Europeans in re-defining and shaping “public space”. I was informed about this and told that Ragged should be put forward as a project. Read more…
Something which seems to be a repeating query over time is the question of altruism and whether it genuinely exists as a function of humans…
Scotland’s history in education is much tied to it’s culture. The methodical and logical approach of Scotland’s Parliament House looked to Roman and Continental law which was out of line with the inherited English practice. Even more alien to England was an education system which combined the democracy of the Kirk elders with the intellectualism of the advocates. This made expertise in metaphysics a condition of the open door of social advancement. Read more…
Nobody is talking about the problems associated with funding – in particular the effects of the outcomes of measuring. In trying to get support and resources for the activities which the Ragged project is about, and in trying to find a formal structure so the organisation itself can apply for traditional means of funding, there have been a number of problems encountered. This blog post is touches on some of the themes which recur. Along the road, there have been crossroads where the questions get raised – “What Now ?” – Do we change the direction or way we do things to fit the prevailing culture, or do we stick to the principles we designed the initiative around ?
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The University of Manchester Library has been running a credit-bearing course unit called The Digital Society for the past two years as part of the University College programme.