Jan Chipchase had a session at CHI 2009 in which he presented some of his work gathered from all over the world. The work is definitely interesting and inspiring.
At one point in his presentation, he said something that got my attention. I think he was asked by a member of the audience about the boundaries [...]

Just spent the afternoon reading and had a few random thoughts:
1. A THOUGHT ON GOING TO THE SOURCE
The origin or primary source of something is very important. Hence, knowing the arts (what guides one’s thinking) is just as important than trying to learn all the methodologies that one can choose from to understand a specific [...]

I have been having sporadic email conversations with Elliott lately and we’ve been talking about some interesting things. Particularly, he has some interesting things to say about thought and action. This topic has been of interest to me and I have blogged about it before under a different title of Theory & Practice.
Elliott writes,
… I [...]

I’ve been reading a bit more Antonio Gramsci (Marxist Theorist) and John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Although the two have two very different notions of reality, they seem to have the same macro-problem.
PROBLEM: Separation of Thought and Action.
FOR GRAMSCI:
Thought is the theory of contradictions in a society and action is the people’s actual consciousness. Because [...]

I found this clip of Mike Huckabee talking about the need for arts & music. He has been the most vocal of the presidential candidates concerning this matter. The interviewer asks him what the place for the arts is in the context of war and high national deficit. This has been a question on my [...]