Invisible Cities and Inspiration
May 21, 2020
In the latest edition of The Things That Made Us, we’re talking about Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. This book was originally published in 1972, it describes a series of conversations between the explorer Marco Polo and the Emperor Kublai Khan. The book is a fascinating examination of what it means to be human as …
Music and Innovation
May 18, 2020
In the latest of the ‘Things that Made Us’ podcast, we talk about the connections between music and invention. This focuses on Mike Oldfield’s 1973 album, Tubular Bells. You might know the album from its use in the horror film, The Exorcist (1973). This has meant the music has been perceived as haunting but it can be …
Art and rethinking our world – the things that made us
May 5, 2020
In this podcast we discuss art and how we envision different worlds. We take the subject of Paul Nash’s, We are making a new world (1918). A work that was created to depict the battlefields of the First World War, but which also gives us a chance to see how creative works move us and …
Focused Thinking and Diffuse Thinking: How to Learn
May 4, 2020
In Liberal Arts, we are occasionally confronted with new subjects, new approaches and terminologies that we might not have worked with before. This is always the challenge for an interdisciplinary programme. However, this is the challenge that we like! We are interested in expanding ideas and learning new approaches. This can be made easier by …
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