This should be music to parents’ ears, especially at this time of year. Unstructured play is something we champion and explore at the iOi, so it’s great to see the benefits explored and shared. Katie Hurley, child and adolescent psychotherapist, looks at all the ways that play can bring cognitive benefits, and perhaps a stress-free Summer.…
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Now more from our season on the theme of empathy. The Guardian described Raoul Martinez’s book, Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for our Future, as ‘this year’s essential text for thinking radicals’. Here we wanted to share an extract where he explores how imagination bridges the gap between the empathy we need to combat…
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Once you read about it, you can’t believe it’s taken this long, but you also can’t believe we had it any other way. Ian Cheng‘s works are essentially living art, or conversely, as he describes them, “computer games that play themselves”. Of course, there’s something inimitable about the joy of forming your opinion on a painting,…
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In our quest for inspiring innovation, creativity and solutions through imagination, what if one of our vital tools is broken? Speaker, author and activist, Manish Jain, believes our education system is producing a society which actually creates issues such as poverty and global warming. His solution for this is a radical theory called ‘unlearning’. This…
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In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about meditation, the need for stories, the power of technology to erase the boundary between fact and fiction, wealth inequality, the problem of finding meaning in a world without work, religion as a virtual reality game, the difference between pain…
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