Composer, lyricist, rapper, singer, actor, playwright and producer Lin-Manuel Miranda is more than just a ‘multi-hyphenate’, he’s truly all of those things in their own right. He’s best known for creating and starring in smash-hit Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights. It’s fantastic to get an insight into the role imagination plays in his…
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Imagination is about questioning, celebrating and engaging what we can see by using what we can’t. A great way to do this is through making the familiar unfamiliar. It allows us to make that connection to what might be. That’s why we love Manifold Garden as a game. It puts that essential twist on the…
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It’s great to see the education sector catching up to exploring comprehensive and creative ways to learn. Making is one of our core themes here at IM and his summer we championed the maker movement with our Mega Maker Lab. We’ll continue to create initiatives like this to help children and young people discover and…
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As this article from The Guardian points out, research into prehistoric DNA is only small steps – but they are steps all the same. By looking into what made ancient people, science enables us to imagine how we lived in the past and so what has informed us as modern humans. One of the most…
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Architecture is everything about the spaces around us. We understand it; it’s visual and familiar. Digital spaces are anything but. As this article from Fast Company says, the digital is often binary in its decisions, which we as humans can’t compute. We love the interdisciplinary nature of this exhibition and lab at the Tate. By…
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We wrote about Fab City earlier this year so it’s great to see more. We explored it in terms of 3D printing, but this article from GreenBiz looks at how local Fab Labs are inspiring makers and fostering community connections all over the US and Europe. We love the idea of creating a formal movement…
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Much of our focus on designing our spaces goes on optimising home life or fostering better learning practices. And rightly so. However, forgetting and dismissing our cities’ infrastructure as a necessarily complex evil is having devastating effects. This article from Curbed explores how one firm is trying to humanise our approach to transportation design through…
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This article into a new area of research, dubbed culturomics, is fascinating. Long before massive digital infrastructure and the concept of ‘big data’, humans have been creating a record. What we thought culturally important to write down tells our story, not just our tales. And more important than anything is to get the measure of…
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For us, making represents the practical application of our most important themes, imagination and creativity. Through projects like this summer’s Mega Maker Lab, we play, experiment and invent, finding intriguing solutions and learning along the way. It’s so inspiring to see this explored in a feature-film documentary. We love the idea that making has a…
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The idea of creativity being ‘educated out’ or just losing that spark of imagination as we age is common. We’d certainly support nurturing it in children in every way possible, but there’s debate on how this develops as we get older. Some studies actually show a boost and peak between our 20s and 40s. What…
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