http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/demospodcasts/ en-us Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:36:14 -0100 Latest items from Demos Podcasts on http://www.demos.co.uk/ - the thinktank for everyday democracy Mon, 12 May 2008 22:36:14 -0100 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11229 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11229 Prospect magazine, and Professor Paul Schnabel, General Director of the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands.

They were speaking after the third and final seminar in a series exploring integration and participation in the Netherlands and the UK. Here, Rachel, David and Paul discuss the broad state of political participation and its relationship to cohesion and integration. They also touch on the recent speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury on religious and national law.

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]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:12:28 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11186 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11186 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.



In this podcast, Duncan O'Leary talked to authors Kirsten Bound and Paul Skidmore about what the Index tries to do; what it measures; and where the research is heading next.








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]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:10:15 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11123 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11123 Career Innovation, authors of The Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace. The Manifesto set out to identify people's attitudes towards non-traditional ways of working such as part-time, contract working (self-employed), term-time working and flexible hours. It was the result of an 18-month research programme by the Ci Group of leading global employers, which brought together experts from business and academia.

The Manifesto argues that a new way of understanding employees’ relationship to work and organisations is needed, to replace a more destructive paradigm of business agility built around organisational structures, rather than people and their desire to achieve.

You can download a free summary of the Manifesto from www.CiManifesto.com

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]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:27:56 -0100 peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11089 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/11089 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.
The pamphlet explores, with a focus on social care, 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. Niamh and Jamie discuss why these self-directed services are such an important transformation of how traditional public services work, and what impact they really have.

You can read about the launch event, and download audio and transcriptions form some of the talks here. The conference featured talks from Ed Miliband, Minister for the Cabinet Office; Charles Leadbeater, Demos Associate and co-author with Jamie and Niamh; and Dame Denise Platt, Chair, Commission for Social Care Inspection.

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]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:32:16 -0100 jamie.bartlett@demos.co.uk ( Pete Bradwell ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10920 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10920

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 least such activities can improve the relationship between the governors and the governed. Anyway, Glasgow became a book called The Dreaming City which we launched last summer. Here's a podcast we recorded about it a couple of weeks ago.

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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 in Canada - 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 week's podcast (it's 35 minutes long).

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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...

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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 Alzheimer's Society and Angela as head of the Picker Institute.

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It's quite a long one so maybe it's worth having some markers: Harry Cayton starts at 1:33 and Angela Coulter starts at 6:54.

We have also produced a note of the discussion, which is here.

We wrote a discussion paper to get things going. It captures our emerging ideas in the healthy conversations project. Next, we'll be exploring these with patient groups and professionals. And we'll see how the hope of conversational healthcare matches the everyday reality.]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:59:58 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Jack Stilgoe ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10477 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10477 DCMS 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 them isn't just about the future of the economy (as most argue) it's also about who does and doesn't have a cultural voice (b) the new ways of doing business in the creative economy could offer new ways of working to the wider economy. It's these kind of issues, and more that are discussed in this demos podcast, a discussion of our recently published pamphlet "So, what do you do?". You can listen to the podcast...

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]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:47:48 -0100 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10190 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10190

We're all off for a week now, so if you try and call the office, you'll probably get the irritating voicemail that we can't change that just says "DEMOS" in a rather sinister fashion. Sorry in advance. As a parting shot, here's a Demos podcast. It's Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell talking about their pamphlet "As you like it" which was launched to a chorus of "what absolute drivel, what rubbish, what poppycock" back in March. Sitting outside St. Paul's Cathedral a few weeks ago, they talk about how globalisation is changing English and has removed the natural competitive advantage it used to assure for Britons. They also try and explain why it aroused such animosity in some quarters

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]]> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:12:33 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10143 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10143

National Treasures began this Wednesday on Radio 4. It features panellists including Robert Hewison, who is a Demos associate,   debating the relative cultural value of different British landmarks, art-works and institutions. On Wednesday  it was The Thames Estuary (forwarded by Germaine Greer) vs Stonehenge (forwarded by Tristram Hunt). You can catch it after the Today programme on Wednesdays or keenos can listen again.

These types of discussions provide a way for the different values we derive from culture to be expressed. They are one interpretation of the arguments that Robert Hewison and John Holden have made in a series of Demos pamphlets (most notably Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy) over the last four years.

After the show was recorded last Wednesday, we met up in a pub in  Baker Street to record a podcast about cultural value. Through the hubris you can hear them discussing how cultural value can solve the "crisis of legitimacy" faced by cultural institutions in the UK that they argue is caused by the dysfunctional relationship between politicians, cultural professionals and the public. As ever you can listen to the podcast...

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4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime), ]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:00:31 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10100 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10100 A few weeks ago Demos published a report with NESTA titled The Disruptors about low-carbon innovation. Low carbon-innovation basically means people and companies who make things that can reduce our production of carbon. It's not necessarily about technological breakthroughs - but more about how technologies can be applied in new ways, so that they are used by people and their benefits are spread through society. The argument being that if we are going to make the transition to a low-carbon society: we need to develop entirely different ways of building, travelling, shopping and even eating, and the Disruptors - people innovating in this way - are the people to help us do it. Anyway Molly Webb, one of the report's co-authors, talks through these issues in this week's podcast. You can also check out the reports other two authors James Wilsdon and Rebecca Willis giving their presentations at the launch of the report here.

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Carbon geeks may have noticed the solar panels being installed above molly's head in the picture. ]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:37:09 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims ) http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10043 http://www.demos.co.uk/items/10043
Children enjoying the school holidays are digging holes and and making piles of sand around their parents, twenty-somethings and students are building up in huddles supping beer from plastic cups, pensioners lie back on deck chairs hiding their eyes behind floppy sun-hats. At the front of the beach somebody is selling battered paperbacks off a wallpapering table, to the left there is a dancing workshop and to the right a mixture of people are gathering for a speed-dating ideas-exchange event. 

This is the Bristol Urban Beach - an attempt by Melissa Mean, head of the Self-Build Cities programme to create a new kind of public space in Bristol by creating a beach for 6 weeks. Drawing on ideas developed in People Make Places and The Dreaming City the Bristol Urban Beach aims to bring different groups of people together from across the city and provide a new type of community asset for the city. In this podcast, made on the Beach itself, Melissa explains how it happened and why on earth, of all things, a think tank should be involved in building a beach....

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]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:01:09 -0100 charlie.tims@demos.co.uk ( Charlie Tims )