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.

Times Higher Education

A very nice mention from Dennis Hayes in the Times Higher Education, 1 May 2008

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=401627&sectioncode=26

Dennis, with Kathryn Ecclestone, is the author of 'The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education', Routledge, May/June 2008. He is also the founder of the campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF)

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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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