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- Podcast: Going Dutch In this Demos podcast, over tea in the Demos kitchen after the final Going Dutch seminar, Rachel Briggs caught up with David Goodhart, editor of Prospect magazine, and Professor Paul Schnabel, General Director of the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands. continue reading on 9th February 2008
- Podcast: The Everyday Democracy Index Yesterday saw the launch of the new Demos pamphlet The Everyday Democracy Index. It sets out the first set of results of an endeavour to measure how good countries are at empowering their citizens in everyday spheres of life - spheres such as neighbourhoods and communities, workplaces, public services and even the family. continue reading on 1st February 2008
- BE A PODCAST, vol 3, ep. 1: Career Innovation In this episode of the Be A Podcast series, Peter Bradwell spoke to Jonathan Winter and Tony DiRomualdo of Career Innovation, authors of The Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace. continue reading on 24th January 2008
- Podcast: Making It Personal A new year return for the Demos podcast. This time we're talking about the new pamphlet Making It Personal. Just before the launch, at a day-long conference held last Friday, Peter Bradwell spoke to two of the authors, Niamh Gallagher and Jamie Bartlett. With a focus on social care, the pamphlet explores the next stage of a personalising approach to public services: people given an individual budget so they can shape, with the advice of peers, family and professionals, the support they need.... continue reading on 21st January 2008 Comments (1)
- Podcast: The Dreaming City/Glasgow 2020 Glasgow 2020 was a project to imagine the future of Glasgow through storytelling, wish-making and a series of discussions with people across Glasgow. I know this sounds cheesy, but we tried to focus on 'imagination' rather 'consultation'. The project trod a thin dividing line between political representation, and cultural expression. Basically i'm not sure if a load of stories, wishes and discussions can be considered to democratically 'represent' the entire populous of a city, but at the very... continue reading on 21st December 2007
- Podcast: Community Based Counter-Terrorism So, apparently the police are watching 2,000 terror suspects, but they aren’t the only ones watching them – there’s the rest of us too. Last week Jamie Bartlett gave a lecture about community based approaches to counter terrorism - the terror threat may come from global networks, but it’s in local communities that young Muslims become radicalised. Jamie's lecture makes up this weeks podcast (it's 35 minutes long).You can listen to the free Demos podcast...1.... continue reading 13th November 2007
- Podcast: Out Of Step There's a new pamphlet around the corner about the future of the British Armed Forces - available from here on Nov 5th. "Out of Step - The case for change in the British Armed forces" argues that the armed forces are constrained from responding to the 21st century challenges by tradition and hierarchy. You can listen to the free Demos podcast...1. VIA THE I-TUNES STORE!2. By subscribing via feedburner3. Listening via the Internet Archive4. Downloading the file (5.78MB) 5.... continue reading on 26th October 2007
- Podcast: One healthy conversation Last Thursday, we hosted a conversation among various people interested in the changes to the ways that patients talk to doctors and to each other. We were delighted to have Harry Cayton and Angela Coulter to prompt the discussion. They have both been at the heart of debates about patient engagement in health for years - Harry as patient tsar at the Department of Health and formerly head of the Alzheimers Society and Angela as head of the Picker Institute.We have recorded their talks for a... continue reading on 19th October 2007
- Podcast: So, er, what *do* you do? Ages ago the dpt for Culture Media and Sport set up a series of working groups of experts and professionals to look at the future of the Creative Industries - these groups were supposed to be feeding into the production of a Green Paper, due to be published back in the Spring. It still hasn't materialised. The Creative Industries (graphic design, music, media etc) matter because (a) they are a large part of where our expressive culture comes from - having the skills to access it isn't just... continue reading on 12th October 2007
- Demos Podcast: Seen and Heard Some people will tell you that "hoodies" are just another example of a youth cult scaring adults. For hoodie we might as well just read Teddy Boy, Rude Boy, Mod, Rocker, Skin-head, Casual and so on... But rather than being a specific style or cult, the hoody is an item of clothing worn by most children and mostly by children. It's not the visibility of a youth cult in public space that scares people - it's youth culture itself. This is fundamentally changing public space. 71% of... continue reading 5th October 2007
