learning/unlearning
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(Don’t) Be Naughty!
In a world that systematically dehumanises children and their misbehaving, we should strive to celebrate it and grow confident…
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How can we learn hope?
I am finding mustering hope for the future difficult. We’re living in a time made up of quilted existential…
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It’s Always Playtime!
Inspired by the reimagining of the Young V&A archive, this project sought to deconstruct, reassemble and reclaim boundaries and…
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Unlearning Language: The Ordered Chaos of Finnegans Wake
‘riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus…
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What’s Sacred is Chosen
When I was 8 or 9 years old, my family took a holiday to Wells, a beautiful seaside town…
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Memorising the Night Walk Alone
by Íde SimpsonI love you on every tube to Oval station, and when I blow a kiss through the closed glass…
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I am still trying to learn and unlearn so much about myself. It’s almost arresting how little I know…
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What Sort of Person am I When I am Applying for PhDs?
Imagine the worst-case scenario, the person who reads your essay has been in the field for decades. She is…
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Portraits of a Generation
by Miquel AgellThe documentary is inspired by Girona Province in Spain and tells a story of a generation of the past…
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un- D O I N G (or, An Education in Wordle and the Meaning of Life)
by Ellen AgnewAn online conversation descends into a blur of misunderstanding and nastiness and culminates in an unceremonial, undignified unfriending. You…
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Reimagining Homes: Evolving the Idea of the Family Unit
by Sonal NainGrowing up, we were taught in primary textbooks that a typical, normal, family consists of a father, a mother, and…
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Unlearning Accent Bias
by Cleo NelsonSo when we went to London, to work, I probably did have quite a Hull accent. so if you…
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Untruthful facts
Oh Great Britain- the greatest of them all? Great enough to take our lands, and watch us while we…
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The Loss of Haptic
by Eden SpenceI was the child combing through sea pools, stumbling over rocks with an upside-down castle bucket in one fist,…
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