The Museum of Unrest acts as a not-for-profit educational project to support artists designers and communities engaged in art and design linked to social and environmental justice. The project is an online continuation of an organisation that has supporte

Some months have five Fridays, and when this happens add an extra podcast to our normal schedule. In 2021 we played music licensed under creative commons licences; in 2022 we excavated four old radio shows; and in 2023 we looked back at four early classic

As part of the fifth edition of Social Making: the UKs only biennial symposium dedicated to socially engaged art practice, co-creation, and place-making Kim Wide and Anurupa Roy led a workshop exploring the implications of jugaad.Kim Wide works as the

In episode 46 of A Culture of Possibility, while Franois Matarasso is taking a break for medical treatment, Arlene Goldbard interviews Libby Lenkinski, Founder and President of Albi.org, a new fund, institute and lab that uses cultural vehicles to estab

Nisha Duggal is an artist working across various mediums, exploring expressions of freedom in the everyday. She is interested in the transformative qualities of making and doing, engineering situations that uncover deep-seated primitive impulses to connec

Owen Kelly looks at three things that seem to have occurred over the last few months:1. The failure of cultural democrats in Britain to present a manifesto, policy proposals, or cultural programme to the incoming Labour government;2. Our collective fail

Take A Part organises Social Making: the UKs only biennial symposium dedicated to socially engaged art practice, co-creation, and place-making. For the fifth edition of the symposium Take A Part moved from their base in Plymouth to host the event in Br

In episode 45 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Franois Matarasso continue a discussion they began in episode 42. They talk about words that are used in our fields of work: how they are used, why, and the impact they may have. This time,

Paul Crook is an artist, and also head of Communities and Learning at South London Gallery. We talk about his work with young people in both community art and gallery education settings, and creative strategies to facilitate listening. Paul uses mind ma

Sara Selwood has worked in the publicly-funded cultural sector for over 40 years in various capacities, including as editor of the cultural policy journal Cultural Trends since it was first published in 1994. Having started out as an artist, she was an ar