The essay which introduces The Crossing of Two Lines, the book I made with the artist duo Performing Pictures.
Author: Dougald Hine
Two days of conversations about ‘the commons’ on an island in the heart of Stockholm set me thinking about what it means to reclaim ‘subsistence’ in the 21st century.
In the fourth issue of Dark Mountain, I published this conversation with the Mexican activist and intellectual Gustavo Esteva.
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The Regeneration of Meaning
The consequences of an economic crisis can both lead to and be made worse by the crisis of meaning experienced by those whose lives it has derailed. Is it also possible for actions on the terrain of meaning to help stem and even reverse the consequences?
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Friendship is a Commons
Speaking at the Commoning the City event at the Architecture Museum in Stockholm, April 2013.
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Organisations That Matter
On the experience of creating organisations that are embedded within a community.
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A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise
A talk on the future of education at Dalarna University, Sweden in March 2013.
On the emergence of a new kind of spatial agent, responding pragmatically to the constrictions and precarities of post-crisis living.
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Words Which Matter to People
It is the second day of my journey around Europe, a journey in search of resilience, and I am in a park near the centre of Helsinki, asking the locals whether they can help me understand the meaning of sisu, a word that is said to be central to Finnish culture and impossible to translate.
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Three Travellers
“I don’t think I was given the best careers advice in school,” he says. “There was no future in making things, they told us. If you were bright, you should go to college and study something like law.”