Robin Good
@robingood
Robin Good
@robingood
Fascinating Future
“Civium is a way of looking at cities, and specifically what a post-city world might look like.
It imagines an alliance between technology and the countryside replacing the city as the focus of creativity and wealth-creation.
It is the idea that there is no longer much point living in the middle of a large conurbation when you can
... See moreCuration is the act of illuminating something

Curating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:
"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."