John Thackara

John Thackara|Essays

The Dementia Care Economy

A proposition for the economy of ‘disease-modifying therapy’ for dementia.

John Thackara|Interviews

Ecuador, Open Knowledge, and ‘Buen Vivir’: Interview With Michel Bauwens

John Thackara interviews Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, is to lead a strategic policy project for Ecuador’s government called Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK), also known as the social knowledge economy project.

John Thackara|Essays

Dementia: Care Before Cure

The downside of declaring war on a disease like dementia is to diminish social solidarity. But there are solutions.

John Thackara|Insights Per Minute

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John Thackara is a writer, speaker and design producer, and director of Doors of Perception. In addition to this blog, he is the author of twelve books including In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World and Wouldn't It Be Great If….

John Thackara|Essays

Desert of the Real

Three perplexing, related issues: The notion that we are living in a ‘desert of the real’; What the desert of the real has meant for environmental communications; Alternative ways of knowing and being in the world and what …

John Thackara|Essays

Ways of Knowing

John Thackara's contrubution to the book Gallery of the Senses, that explores the ways we expereince the contemporary world through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

John Thackara|Essays

Speed? What Speed? Prisoners of Speed, by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich on being prisoners of the idea of speed.

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Speed? What Speed? The Belly-Dance Drummer, by Matthias Rieger

Matthias Rieger with some remarks about speed from a belly-dance drummer’s point of view.

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Speed? What Speed? The Falcon, by Sebastian Trapp

Field biologist Sebastian Trapp on Frederic the Second's book, On the Art of Hunting with Birds.

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Flyways

A meditation on the migratory patterns of birds and sheep.

John Thackara|Essays

Connecting With The Other

A review of Empreintes, by Céline Boyer

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Between Sorrel And Supertanker

John Thackara reviews the recent Doors of Perception xskool.