Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Warm scones

How's this for timing? I was just fixing meself some strong coffee, to persuade my jetlagged brain to work on an overdue report, and struggling to find anything to dunk in it. So there's a voice at the backdoor, it's my next door neighbour, 'Oh Kevin you're back,' with some fresh scones just out of the oven.

13 Jun 2007 14:05:32 | Vignettes

The comments to this entry are closed.

NEXT POST
Third places, libraries and the public realm I've uploaded a short summary of the presentation I gave last week at the Third Place Forum in Caloundra. Following comments I received afterwards, I think the key issue is to explore more deeply the differences and interplay between 'community' places or 'community-based' locations, and the public realm. It seemed to me that in Australia the distinction may be more blurred than it is in the UK, which is probably a good thing. But it's surely still true to say that while they overlap there are differences, and that therefore there are questions about how third places in either case are co-produced and styled. Reflecting on this relationship helps us explore the role of public libraries, and vice versa.
PREVIOUS POST
Housing associations and neighbourliness Aha, I see The Young Foundation promise a seminar (13 July in London) on some joint research with the Housing Corporation about neighbourliness and governance. It's not been easy to find out about this project - I recall two or three phone calls to the Housing Corporation, one of them lasting a good 30 minutes with several uncertain respondents, making enquiries after I picked up rumours about it, and drawing a blank. Still nothing that I can find on the HC site. I really don't understand why people don't want others to know what they're doing with (what I assume is) public money. Well sorry, guess I'm just feeling nitpicky because of the contrast with the Open Innovation Exchange, whose progress (hopefully unstoppable) at the Cabinet Office today has just been blogged by David Wilcox. Whatever happens, well done to Simon and Jane Berry, Ben Whitnall and David, and the others involved, for putting such effort into being straightforward.

Kevin Harris

Search

My Other Accounts

Recent Comments