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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...architecture more pint-sized... 18. Bittles Bar is the smallest pub in Belfast Built: 1868. Location: near Victoria Square. Original name: "The Shakespeare". Social distancing: tricky. 19. Belfast's "Big Fish" sculpture has roots in old myths There are plenty of names for the big blue fish on Donegall Quay. One of them refers to the Salmon of Knowledge. The animal...
Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...architectures that turned out to be intolerant of their improvised rivals) and in so doing, suggested an imaginary for politics that might not be contained by liberal rationalism: i.e., the assumption that politics is a field of purposive, rational action by human subjects (from which agentive non-humans such as protest banners and monuments are excluded). If I started...
Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...Architectural Conservation’, 152-167 [Online]. Available at https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2508272 (Accessed 4 March 2019). Curtis, R. (2010) ‘Climate Change and Traditional Buildings: The Approach Taken by Historic Scotland’, Journal of Architectural Conservation, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 7–27 [Online]. DOI: 10.1080/13556207.2010.10785073. Ferreira, J.,...
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...architectural innovations and was a place that was embellished and influenced by the riches of empire. Hadrian’s reign underlined that Rome and empire were integrated rather than separated. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A340 The Roman empire...Hadrian's Rome: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...architecturally significant medieval and early Renaissance ‘Old Town’ and the Georgian ‘New Town’ – were included in the World Heritage List. Capital of Scotland since the fifteenth century, Edinburgh's unique character, a result of its particular combination of medieval fortress city and eighteenth-century neoclassical Georgian city, was given as the reason for...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...Architecture, Selected Poems, was published by Carcanet in 2020. From the outset, her work was greeted with critical acclaim. Morrissey won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for an unpublished manuscript at the age of 18, making her the youngest poet ever to do so. Three of her first four collections were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, which she eventually won with...
Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...architecture or chain of reasoning that links the two. Racism is based in the contrary assumption of absolute cognitive difference. [ Aztec warriors led by an eagle knight, each holding a macuahuitl club. Copy of a painting from Florentine Codex, book IX] But there was also the suggestion that “modern” (techno-scientific) and “primitive” (religious) forms of...
Can being part of a team help break the pain barrier?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can being part of a team help break the pain barrier?

...architecture of pain and fatigue. This research is beginning to reveal why team bonds can matter so much, even for elite athletes whose bodies have been engineered to physical perfection. An athlete’s ability to consume social support – from teammates, family, and fans – may prove to be one of nature’s most effective performance-enhancers. [The Conversation]This...