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Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...technological changes which characterised the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Cities in the western world were expanding. This urbanisation called for a new approach to building- new technologies would have to be embraced, offering cheaper, more efficient means of satisfying a larger population and a growing number of industrial clients. In the...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...technology standards/targets is extremely welcome. It is exactly where we should/could have been in 1997 with the Kyoto Protocol. There was a chance back then to set IEA Technology Collaboration Programme-type technology Earth Shots (for instance, to double the on-road fuel efficiency of automobiles within 15 years). Instead, the design architecture around the UNFCCC was...
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TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Nature & Environment

TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem

...Technology, he claims, will get us out of this. However, in common with Patricia Fara’s review, I believe that scientific enquiry and its technological consequences are not necessarily “progressive” at all. “Progress” is a huge contributor to the crisis we face: it is the positive image that Western powers have invoked in order to justify colonialism,...
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World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...education was fundamental in improving a woman's place in society and strived for equality. Read her story here... Emily Davies England 1860 - 1921 Higher Education [Emily Davies image] Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880 In mid nineteenth-century England the world of higher education, like many others, was closed to women. Many people opposed the idea of...
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Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...technology in cinematography combined with breath-taking special effects, the recent superhero movie Deadpool brought to life one of these categories, altered humans. In Deadpool, Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary having being transformed into Deadpool by evil scientist Ajax. Demonstrating further that the superhero phenomena is...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...Education enjoyed a huge expansion during the 1960s with new universities and polytechnics being opened and many older universities expanding their numbers. One man, Asa Briggs, played significant roles at the first of the new universities of the decade, the University of Sussex located just outside Brighton, which opened in 1961, and the last university to open in that...
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Get in touch
Education & Development

Get in touch

...educators, home-educated young people, practitioners and others interested in home education...Registered OpenLearn users can vote in the poll above (log in to see it if you haven't done so already). The resources cover a range of topics including ones aimed at specific knowledge of neurodiversity, inclusive practice and children’s development and those targeted at...
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Designing interactive systems for dogs
Digital & Computing

Designing interactive systems for dogs

...technology, for example the kind we have in our homes (washing machine, telephone, light switches, etc.). However, anyone would struggle and underperform if they had to use devices that are not designed with one’s physical and psychological characteristics in mind, which is why designing interactive systems from a user-centred perspective is so important, particularly...
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