Enemies of Progress

"Enemies of Progress" has been set up to argue for development without prefixes. One of the most important tasks today, is to undermine the fear-generating perception that human agency, modernity, growth, materialism, want, development, experimentation, technology, infrastructure, political debate and critical engagement - in a word, progress, is a problem.

New Culture Forum

Peter Whittle's New Culture Forum has laid me bare:

http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/home/?q=node/290

I guess that this is as near as I'll get to 'Desert Island Discs'.

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Austin Williams: I'm the director of the Future Cities Project, and author and illustrator at NBS. An architect and project manager by profession, I was previously the technical editor of the Architects’ Journal and now write for a wide range of publications on urban and transport issues. I co-ordinated the ‘Future of...’ series of festivals and am the founder member of Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture [ManTowNHuman] - the first radical architectural manifesto intervention for over a generation. I also run the Bookshop Barnies.

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