Sam Furness
@samfurness
Designing collective experiences and beautiful things that cultivate curiosity and creative ways of being.
Sam Furness
channeltwelve.co.uk
Summary: A new study finds that Nobel Prize winners who moved more frequently or worked in multiple locations began their groundbreaking research years earlier than peers who stayed in one place. By exposing themselves to new ideas and collaborators, mobile scientists accelerated their creative output.
The study suggests that fresh environments and diverse intellectual networks can fuel innovation more effectively than long-term stability in a single institution. This mobility advantage may apply not only to scientists but to creatives in any field driven by novel thinking.
there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there.
We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris
There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.
Gordon Livingston • Gordon Livingston Quote
Chengdu - China’s Park city
“I the sculptor am the landscape”
Thea Hawlin • ‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
Barbara Hepworth
Whenever I drive through the countryside and up the hills, I imagine forms placed in situations of natural beauty and I wish more could be done about the permanent siting of sculptures in strange and lonely places.
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
This intermingling of art and life was central to Hepworth. Just as she lived with nature so she lived with her sculptures: “It’s lovely to live with a sculpture, because it changes in every possible light; all through the day, moonlight, artificial light – any light – it’s always changing”