I wonder if you experience a different set of values that are perhaps slightly more empathetic to a more considered, slower approach in your geographic context—do you feel the same or different pressures? I recently met with an Italian curator, Viviana Checchia (coincidentally also an ICI alumna) who has just finished a PhD thesis on slowness in Me

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The 8-hour work day, weekends, time off—hard-fought and won by the labor movement!—seem to have been triumphs for human health and well-being. Why should we assume that stopping here is right? Why should we assume that less work was better in the past, but less work now would be worse?

When I was growing up, I was forced to play my role in an unrealistic standard of perfection at school, work, and church. This “do more” belief was passed on to me and my siblings by my parents and every adult in our lives, including our teachers. I remember being in elementary school doing homework and my father lovingly telling me that I had to a

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