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Leonardo da Vinci's creative process
How to approach problem-solving like da Vinci
The importance of curiosity and observation
How our time frames are stretched
- Artist-technologist Honor Harger has created a soundscape of the history of the Universe that enables you to hear the “oldest song you’ll ever hear” - the sounds of the cosmic rays left over from the Big Bang.
- The Deep Time Walk is an app that enables people to walk 4.6km through 4.6 billion years of history.
- The Long Now Foundation is building a clock designed to run for 10 millennia inside a mountain in Texas.
- Artist Katie Paterson created Future Library, a forest planted in Norway which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in 100 years’ time.
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Finding a long-term perspective
Acting in the interests of the long term will involve a radical change in the short term.
It will involve questioning the norm and doing things very differently.
- Arts and culture can connect us with previous moments of change to make the radical seem more tangible.
- Arts a...
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The Long Time Project
The Long Time Project supports art and culture as a way to help people think and act more long-term. This includes YouTube videos, adverts, art exhibitions, theatre, clothing and furniture.
All these art forms and creative works are shaped by culture - the collective values...
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How art and culture in a broad sense expand our perception of time
Art can stretch our timefulness - the ability to put ourselves within eras and aeons rather than in weeks and months.
Deep time is about creating perspective and distinguishing between the short term timescales and the depth of cosmic timescales. It's meant to shift our perspective. Whether...
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"Time is out of joint"
This line in Shakespeare's Hamlet is just as true today, for we live in a world where our perception of time is disconnected.
Instead of considering the long-term problems such as climate change and ecological collapse, we focus on short-term mindsets and structures. While our minds might n...
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Experiencing the long term view
Questions about the long-term future can feel distant and difficult for people to translate into action.
It's one thing to watch negative or positive views of the future, but another to know what it means to our own lives. Art and culture is a transformative and generative agent. It can hel...
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