Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Digital Exploring
by Fidian Warman, Director of SODA There’s been a whole lot of coding, soldering and cabinetry since we kicked off Travellers’ Tails in December 2014 and here are a a few learnings and tales from our travails and triumphs through the project….. It was a bold and open brief we responded to with a range […]
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Reflections on a kangaroo and a butterfly
Reflections on a kangaroo and a butterfly – posted by Maggie Reilly, curator of Zoology at The Hunterian In our exhibition ‘The Kangaroo and the Moose’ (http://tinyurl.com/jr3oplu) a kangaroo and some butterflies that once, 250 years ago, may have roamed in the same place once again occupy the same space. The kangaroo is George […]
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Volunteering with children
When I first came to visit the RE-THINK space it was last year as a student during my Museum and Galleries Curating Course. I would have never imagined to be selected as a volunteer few months later. I have been working at the Maritime Museum to engage the public for the Travellers’ Tails project during […]
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What to do with a kangaroo?
by Lucy Yates, Travellers’ Tails project manager On 15 July 1770 Joseph Banks wrote, ‘The Beast which was killd yesterday was today Dressd for our dinners and provd excellent meat.’ But which beast is he referring to? Of course it’s the Kangaroo. Cook’s crew did the fieldwork which essentially led to Stubbs being able to […]
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Tales from a Digital Explorer
by Fidian Warman, Director of SODA There’s been a whole lot of coding, soldering and cabinetry since we kicked off Travellers’ Tails in December 2014 and here are a a few learnings and tales from our travails and triumphs through the project….. It was a bold and open brief we responded to with a range […]
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Volunteering with families and children
Post by Gaia Bianchi, Explorer Volunteer When I first came to visit the RE.THINK space it was last year as a student during my Museum and Galleries Curating Course. I would have never imagined I would be selected as a volunteer few months later. I have been working at the Maritime Museum to engage the public […]
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Is this Kongouro a self portrait of the artist?
Post by Richard Crawford The ‘Kongouro’ that Stubbs painted cannot be called a likeness of the real animal. It is strikingly obvious that Stubbs, who famously spent months studying horse anatomy, could have made a better job of the kangaroo’s body had he had the skeleton to support the empty skin upon. As it […]
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Australian Animals at The Hunterian
Dr Peter Koene Encouraging the public into the main Museum, after viewing ‘The Kangaroo and the Moose’ in the Art Gallery, has been an important aim of the project from the beginning. So, to complement the Stubbs, I designed a 45-minute public tour of the Hunterian Zoology Museum’s Australian animal collections. Many of the specimens included […]
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Back to reality
I have journeyed back home after an amazing month exploring New Zealand. Yet again I was blown away by its epic landscapes, rich cultural foundations and natural mystique. Something that I find so fascinating about the country is that it feels both strangely familiar, with vistas that could be mistaken for parts of the UK […]
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Reflections on a kangaroo and a butterfly
posted by Maggie Reilly, curator of Zoology at The Hunterian In our exhibition ‘The Kangaroo and the Moose’ (http://tinyurl.com/jr3oplu) a kangaroo and some butterflies that once, 250 years ago, may have roamed in the same place once again occupy the same space. The kangaroo is George Stubbs’s famous painting and the butterflies are dead […]
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Cloth from the Mulberry Tree
I’m interested in costume history, so on my first morning as a volunteer, I was delighted to find a piece of tapa cloth in the ReThink Exploration space. It is believed to have come from Niue, an island in the Pacific near Tonga and Samoa. The cloth is papery to touch, fairly stiff and decorated […]
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2015 Round Up
The end of 2015 finishes with a bang for me with the fruition of some really important elements of my residency thus far. Last week saw the culmination of my second project with Tidemill Academy in Deptford, in which I worked with two year 4 classes over the Autumn term to create a dance performance […]
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The Narrow Road to the Deep South: A Poetry Expedition
As a poet and a Londoner, I have long been fascinated by the River Thames and how being on, in or near water affects our moods and by extension our creativity. The Narrow Road to the Deep South:A Poetry Expedition was a writers’ workshop that took place in a number of locations on land and on water as part of the […]
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Sea Hear workshop with Children
Exploration is about seeing things that are new (or not so new!) fully and with our eyes wide open. It is about the ability to focus and clarify what we are experiencing with all our senses. There is collaboration and technology involved in exploration, and navigation, as well as the adventure of trying something new. In […]
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Digital Explorer
I’ve just been playing on the new Digital Explorer tool in Re:Think. This is a lovely new interface which allows you to build your own mini ‘island’ museum by collecting images, which ‘float’ past you on the screen. You can pick six images using a hand-held wooden boat-shaped device, and your images are determined by the previous image you collected. […]
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Island Exploring
Since my September post the expedition trips for Who is the land have accelerated in frequency and distance. As a part of our movement research and cultivation of film material Stacie and I have voyaged to the Isle of Arran (off of Scotland’s West coast) the Southern coast of Cornwall and have just returned from Whitby […]
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