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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...Open University, I have been exploring ways to teach anti-racist forms of fashion design. In my research many lessons can be learned from the seminal 1971 book Design for the Real World by designer and educator Victor Papanek, which argues that designers must think about their moral responsibilities and the ‘real world’ to design in more equitable ways. Exactly fifty...
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...Open University’s events marking Black History Month, I was invited to give a presentation on the connection between the management curriculum and our colonial heritage. In particular, I tried to problematise the ways in which a ‘Western-centric’ and stereotypical idea of culture is taught in mainstream management curriculum. I tried, furthermore, to underline...
Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...open coffin. The wakehouse is usually run, managed and provisioned, just by women. This article is based on my doctoral study: Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland, published by the Open University in December 2024: https://oro.open.ac.uk/101454/. All of the participants have been given pseudonyms in this article but they have all given permission for their full...
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...open source proposal. Andrew - have you thought through the consequences of this innocuous looking sentence: "We will require that all publicly funded software and hardware is released under an Open Source licence." Most IT projects use proprietary software, that is then tweaked for purpose. That will pretty much stop any IT company working on a public sector project....
Olde dessert recipes
History & The Arts

Olde dessert recipes

...course served up in one dish. The following is Elizabeth Raffald's recipe in her own words. It uses a syllabub topping made from the recipe above. To make a trifle Put three large macaroons in the middle of your dish, pour as much white wine over them as they will drink, then take a quart of cream, put in as much sugar as will make it sweet, nib your sugar upon the rind...
10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...place in Rome, Florence or another Italian city? Learn the lingo first with our free course _Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink._ 2: Instagram [Instagram icon] Where would we be without Instagram's 'Valencia' filter to capture the perfect #ShamelessSelfie? The online photo/video-sharing and social networking service was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. In 2012,......
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...open to the public. ...Krishan Arora Krishan is a consultant and producer. He is currently the International Content Consultant for Australian public channel SBS Television. He was previously at the BBC in London, first as Commissioning Executive for specialist factual documentaries and then as the Independents Executive, responsible for the BBC’s strategic relationship...