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A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus: Hobbling Arts Hobbles Innovation

March 17, 2009 by thetenproject Leave a Comment

By Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein on February 11, 2009 – 9:28am in Imagine That! From the psychology today blog : http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine-that/200902/a-missing-piece-in-the-economic-stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation

As the economy stumbles, the first things to get cut at the national, state, and local levels are the arts. The first thing that goes in our school curricula are the arts. Arts, common wisdom tells us, are luxuries we can do without in times of crisis. Or can we?

Let’s see what happens when we start throwing out all the science and technology that the arts have made possible. Read more of this post

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The Children of Today Will Build the Cities of Tomorrow

January 7, 2009 by thetenproject Leave a Comment

When you tell people that 51% of us live in cities, and that we are adding the equivalent of a city the size of Seattle to the planet every four or five days, they are usually surprised and often react with shock and even despair. Read more of this post

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TEN’s First Birthday!!! 365 days of work and patience pays off

December 31, 2008 by thetenproject 1 Comment

TEN is ONE today, and if 2008 is anything to go by, 2009 will be bursting with wonderful new developments for the project and results for MEGA-CITY HERO, the design of which is complete on schedule and with the technicians being built for online testing & reform through 2009…watch this space to see how São Paulo and New York are enjoying the game!

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What is The TEN Project all about? – An interview with TEN director John Tattersall

March 18, 2008 by thetenproject Leave a Comment

So TEN is about promoting things like recycling and reducing emissions?

No. We are about using technology, social networking, games, urban projects and story telling across all media to engender action and change in attitudes globally.

To use your example, reusing, reducing and recycling is crucial not because it can ever reduce carbon emission, toxins, emerging diseases, disparity of wealth and resource access to anything near safe levels, but because of something much more powerful: The action of reusing, reducing and recycling changes our attitudes to our life systems and our consumer roles. For this reason alone, it is a crucial program to institute in the children of any society. However, it is only one of a thousand possible programs required to significantly shift attitudes for the future. Read more of this post

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