Sophie Hope talks with Sam Trotman from the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and asks her about SSW’s philosophy and practice.
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October 13, 2023
Tags: ABCD, asset based, community, conviviality, Illich, review
Owen Kelly reads extracts from The Careless Society to contextualise the arguments that John McKnight proposes.
David Moscow talks to Owen Kelly about how he moved from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 media campaign to the television series & book From Scratch.
December 22, 1949. An episode of the police procedural series Dragnet. A boy goes missing, along with the rifle he was due to get for Xmas.
We go back to June 3, 1956 to listen to an episode of the western series Gunsmoke. A pacifist arrives in town pursued by two men who want to kill him.
May 27, 2022
Tags: colonisation, community, culture, exploration, space
In January 2022 Agnieszka Pokrywka spent two weeks in the Utah desert in a simulator designed to provide an analog of a Martian settlement as part of a multi-disciplinary crew.
Owen Kelly asks how culture and community relate to each other, and what we might actually do to foster community and cultural democracy.
Owen Kelly talks with Abhijit Sinha about how Project Defy has coped with the devastation that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused across India.
September 24, 2021
Tags: community, cultural democracy, development, radio
Rob Watson runs projects using radio and podcasting to facilitate community development and empower people to tell their own stories.
August 28, 2020
Tags: community, cultural democracy, history, plans, podcasting
With this episode Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse reaches its fiftieth episode, and its final episode in its current form. Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly look back at what started them on this journey, and their plans for the future.
These involve splitting the twice-monthly podcast into three, and (before the end of this year) four separate but linked weekly podcasts, while expanding the website into a community forum.
October 26, 2018
Tags: community, Finland, Social Tools, talkoot, TWT
The World Transformed took place in Liverpool in September 2018, just three days before Social Tools took place in Helsinki. Sophie Hope managed to attend both of them.