Keynote for the Prague Platform on the Future of Cultural Heritage, convened by the European Commission, October 7-8, 2019. The Prague Platform talks about
“Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens.”
But what do these words mean? And how might we approach them — as practitioners, communities, governments and institutions, and citizens?
1. Culture for all
Michael Peter Edson @mpedson
Co-founder, Museum for the
United Nations — UN Live
7-8 October 2019
Keynote for the Prague Platform on
the Future of Cultural Heritage
2. Culture for all
The Prague Platform talks about
“Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage
participation for all citizens.”
But what do these words mean? And how
might we approach them — as practitioners,
communities, governments and institutions,
and citizens?
Keynote for the Prague Platform on
the Future of Cultural Heritage
7. “I was talking to a woman
last week, and she said,
‘My son is raving about
how he can't be anywhere
else on Saturday because
he has to be at his first
concert … in Fortnite.’”
“People keep saying
people watched that
show, but if you ask those
kids, they'd probably say I
was there.”
To the people
attending,
it was real
8. Jibo is a social robot,
designed to interact
with groups and
become part of a
family.
Jibo, like many social
robots, has a strange,
personal effect on
people. During testing,
focus group
participants would not
leave their session until
they had said goodbye,
personally, to Jibo — as
if Jibo’s feelings would
be hurt if they did not
(link in notes)
In Homo Deus, Yuval
Harari argues that in the
West we confer the
equivalent of human
rights to corporations.
In the future, will we
confer the equivalent of
human rights to robots
like Jibo? Will robots
have a culture?
9. Spot is a utility robot
developed by Boston
Robotics. It’s designed for
things like helping out on
construction sites, opening
doors, carrying bricks…
Spot was programmed to dance. Spot
dances pretty well! And Spot may — will
— soon dance autonomously and invent
its own moves. Does Spot have a culture?
Will the Spots of the world have a
culture? A cultural heritage?
10. How can we think about “culture for all”
in a world where this is normal?
What are some touchpoints?
12. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berea_College_20101111_GebhartCeramicsClass_LK_(18)_(19945586354).jpg
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the
class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would
be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the
right solely on its quality.
“His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring his
bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: 50 pends of
pots rated an “A”, 40 pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on
“quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one
— to get an “A”.
“Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest
quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
“It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of
work—and learning from their mistakes—the “quality” group had sat
theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their
efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
Pottery Class — Quality via Quantity
13. Pottery Class — Quality via Quantity
Slides
https://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/think-big-start-small-move-fast
16. “Culture” in Oakland, California
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View-from-Broadway-street-towards-San-Francisco-Oakland-bridge.jpg
In the 1990’s the Urban
Institute conducted a
study of cultural
participation in under-
privileged communities
in Oakland, CA.
17. “Where do you get your culture?”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View-from-Broadway-street-towards-San-Francisco-Oakland-bridge.jpg
Researchers went to
the streets and asked
people “Where do
you get your culture?”
…They were invariably
met with a response
of “We don’t have
that kind of stuff
around here.”
18. “Who are the creative people in
your community?”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View-from-Broadway-street-towards-San-Francisco-Oakland-bridge.jpg
To the researchers’
credit, they went back
to the office and re-
worked their question…
When they returned
several months later
they asked, “Who are
the creative people in
your community?”
19. https://flic.kr/p/q7SVTd Daniel Arauz 2014/12/13 Millions March Oakland Millions March Oakland CC-BY-SA 2.0
When they asked the question
this way they got an outpouring
of information about the artists,
musicians, writers, rappers,
choreographers, and other
’creatives’ in their
neighborhoods.
The problem wasn’t that people
didn’t have cultural and creative
lives…
21. Photo by Michael Peter Edson, 26 April 2017. CC-BY-SA
We’ve held workshops on
5 continents to learn how
people relate to the
United Nations, Museums,
and the Sustainable
Development Goals.
Most people, young and
old, have no great love for
cultural institutions in the
abstract, but they do love
specific museums,
libraries, and community
organizations where they
have great experiences.
23. • Junaid, 21 year old medical student from Lahore, Pakistan
• Dennis, a university student in Donkorkrom, Ghana.
• Kusmarni, in Karanganyar, Indonesia, who graduated from Sebelas Maret
University of Indonesia, majoring English Literature and American Studies
• Josep Osagu, a college student from Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
I asked a few
freelancers for their
thoughts about
European cultural
heritage collections
25. At one point in 2014*, pages by the National Gallery of
Denmark had received comments from Germany, Russia,
Spain, New Zealand, India, South Africa, the Philippines,
Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the United
Kingdom.
On one group of pages
about the masterpieces of
Danish art, comments by
Danes are outnumbered by
comments from other
countries by 35:1.
* The last time I studied these pages
27. 1. Parts of the future have “broken off” and crashed into us.
2. There are many alternatives to top-down problem solving:
closer to the ground, distributed, networked, & local
3. Money is great, but even large amounts of it under central
control are not enough to solve certain kinds of problems
4. People love their culture, but maybe not their Culture
5. The relationship between global and local has changed: it
needs to be approached in new ways
Perhaps we can weave these ways of thinking and doing into a form
that helps us — all of us — accomplish… not only difficult, important
work together… but maybe even new kinds of work altogether
28. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
This is the problem
statement, or brief, for this
convening.
Given what we’ve seen,
how might we approach it?
29. Problem Space One way is to
construct a
“problem space”
with all of our goals,
challenges,
methods, and
givens.
30. A Problem Space
New/weird future
Bottom-up Global-local
Money mismatched
with challenges
“culture” vs Culture
& distributed
Digital-physical
Young-old
Fast-slow
Simplicity-complexity
Bottom-up / top-down
31. A Problem Space
New/weird future
Bottom-up Global-local
Money mismatched
with challenges
“culture” vs Culture
& distributed
Digital-physical
Young-old
Fast-slow
Simplicity-complexity
Bottom-up / top-down
What’s our angle?
How can we view,
interpret, attack, this
problem space in a way
that is direct,
actionable, and creates
positive impact for
people and
communities?
32. Don’t lock down the problem space too soon.
“When something goes wrong, it can usually be
traced back to the beginning, from the
acceptance of false premises.”
— Norman potter, What Is a Designer, 1969
33. Enhanced digitally enabled culture heritage
participation for all citizens
These words jump out at
me as being precise, clear,
and actionable:
“Culture for all”
34. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
35. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
“cultural heritage”?
What counts and what does not?
36. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Cheering for somebody
else’s parade? Or
owning it?
37. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Ethan Zuckerman’s grid
has been a guidepost for
us at the UN Live museum.
We are choosing to do
things that support
movement towards
outcomes that have
impact in communities
38. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
How wide?
How deep?
Does “all”
mean all?
(Make a “Ulysses Pact”
that forces you to
take/make action)
39. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
How wide?
How deep?
Does “all”
mean all?
(Make a Ulysses Pact)
“If you want to solve hard
problems, have hard problems”
— Brewster Kahle
40. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Can be symptomatic of
one-way, read-only thinking
We disseminate to you…
We give you access…
We reach you with our thing…
41. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Juicy!
(constructively ambiguous)
42. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Warning: the word “formats”
could indicate a let’s-make-
some-products mindset that
could lead us astray. (Not
everything that needs to be
done is a “product”)
43. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Does culture = cultural organizations?
44. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
No Yes!
45. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Purpose!
46. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
Purpose!
47. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
48. Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens
Digitally connected technologies allow for widespread dissemination and
access to cultural heritage elements in a variety of formats.
Cultural organisations have an opportunity to act as enablers and hubs for
digital cultural heritage goods and can play a key part in stimulating active
citizenship.
This theme looks at how organisations can utilise new platforms to reach
wider audiences and provide deeper and more personal access to various
cultural goods as well as the effects of this expanded access on individuals,
culture, and society more broadly.
49. Our Problem Space
New/weird future
Bottom-up Global-local
Money mismatched
with challenges
“culture” vs Culture
& distributed
Digital-physical
Young-old
Fast-slow
Simplicity-complexity
Bottom-up / top-down
What’s our angle?
People first
Platforms & the Dark Side
Active citizenship
Deeper & more
personal
50. The Dark Side
Digital platforms, particularly
commercial 3rd party
platforms, have a dark side
that we cannot ignore.
51. “What is to be done?
There are no easy answers.
More important, there are
no purely digital answers…
If digital connectivity
provided the spark, it
ignited because the
kindling was already
everywhere.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/
52. “...it’s now like the entering-the-darkened-basement scene of a horror movie.
Technology has crossed over to the dark side. It’s coming for you; it’s coming for us
all, and we may not survive its advance.
...In 2007, when Mr. Jobs unveiled the iPhone, just about everyone greeted the new
device as an unalloyed good. I was one of them. Here was a genuinely new thing
that would Make Your Life Better, we all thought: It would be convenient, it would
be fun, it wasn’t serious or dangerous or globe-shattering. That’s no longer true.
The State of the Art, today, is a bag of mixed emotions. Tech might improve
everything. And it’s probably also terrible in ways we’re only just starting to
understand.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/insider/tech-column-dread.html
53. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-facebook-elections
1) A handful of American companies, Facebook and Google more than any other, have altered the fundamental
nature of almost every major democracy on Earth. In most of these elections, far-right populism has made huge
strides.
2) The misinformation, abuse, and radicalization created by these companies seems to affect poorer people and
countries more heavily. These companies replace local community networks, local media, local political networks
and create easily exploitable, unmoderated new ones.
3) It is going to get worse and more connected.
61. Cutting the Knot
You
The outcome
you need
Head this way
This is not about inflexibility or certitude, rather,
it is about avoiding false victories and taking
responsibility for direct and consequential goals.
62. “If we don’t win very quickly on climate change then we will
never win. That’s the core truth about global warming. It’s
what makes it different from every other problem our
political systems have faced.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bill-mckibben-winning-slowly-is-the-same-as-losing-198205/
63. “The excruciating power of Zweig’s memoir lies in
the pain of looking back and seeing that there was a
small window in which it was possible to act, and
then discovering how suddenly and irrevocably that
window can be slammed shut.”
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-its-too-late-to-stop-fascism-according-to-stefan-zweig
66. Photo by Michael Peter Edson, Leiden pop-up festival, June 2017, CC-BY
A pop-up local festival in
Leiden, NL, discussing local
projects with neighbors
67. Photo by Michael Peter Edson, 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, CC-BY-SA
A local gathering at the
Museum of Tomorrow in Rio
de Janeiro, discussing local
projects with neighbors
70. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope.
71. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful.
72. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want
you to panic.
73. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want
you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
74. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want
you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
— Greta Thunberg, Davos, January 2019
75. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want
you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
— Greta Thunberg, Davos, January 2019
76. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them
hope.’
But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want
you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
Culture for all
This is culture, at a massive scale. Disorienting, baffling.
(next slide segue: pottery class
) This is now! This is happening now. We are designing for this now: what are some of the atrributes of this now. -->
https://www.wired.com/story/fortnite-marshmello-concert-vr-ar-multiverse/
I want to tell a couple of stories here to create a kind of frame around this theme of digital culture for all.
And this particular story builds on pierluigi’s remarks about collective intelligence.
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Book by David Bayles and Ted Orland, 1985
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I want to tell a couple of stories here to create a kind of frame around this theme of digital culture for all.
And this particular story builds on pierluigi’s remarks about collective intelligence.
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Book by David Bayles and Ted Orland, 1985
Note that images are from the wikimedia commons!
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Description Students watch Dr. Gebhart demonstrate pottery methods during her Ceramic Class on November 11, 2010.
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Author IMCBerea College
I want to tell a couple of stories here to create a kind of frame around this theme of digital culture for all.
And this particular story builds on pierluigi’s remarks about collective intelligence.
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Book by David Bayles and Ted Orland, 1985
Note that images are from the wikimedia commons!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berea_College_20101111_GebhartCeramicsClass_LK_(18)_(19945586354).jpg
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Description Students watch Dr. Gebhart demonstrate pottery methods during her Ceramic Class on November 11, 2010.
Date 11 November 2010, 10:26
Source: 20101111_GebhartCeramicsClass_LK (18)
Author IMCBerea College
USA child welfare system, $28 billion/year, so about 60b over 3 years: macArthur grant would be 1/600th of the problem it was trying to solve.
Sesame Workshop & International Rescue Committee Awarded $100 Million for Early Childhood Education of Syrian Refugees
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/us/macarthur-foundation-will-award-100-million-for-solution-to-a-global-problem.html
USA child welfare system, $28 billion/year, so about 60b over 3 years: macArthur grant would be 1/600th of the problem it was trying to solve.
Sesame Workshop & International Rescue Committee Awarded $100 Million for Early Childhood Education of Syrian Refugees
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/us/macarthur-foundation-will-award-100-million-for-solution-to-a-global-problem.html
1990’s cultural participation in
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Where do you get your culture?
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Who are the creative people in your community?
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The problem wasn’t that people didn’t have cultural and creative lives, it was [next]
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It was that people didn’t identify their creative and cultural lives with the institutions that were founded to serve them.
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I led a workshop for young people in rural Denmark to help understand..
When I facilitated using Museum…
When I didn’t, blech.
Photo by Michael Peter Edson, 26 April 2017. CC-BY-SA
15.9 million registered users (25,000 of whom were online last night when I checked), completed 8 million projects
Junaid, 21 year old medical student from Lahore, Pakistan
Dennis, a university student in Donkorkrom, Ghana.
Kusmarni, in Karanganyar, Indonesia, who graduated from Sebelas Maret University of Indonesia at the major English Literature of The American Studies Mainstream.
Joseph Osagu
Germany, Russia, Spain, New Zealand, India, South Africa, the Philippines, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom: On one group of pages about the masterpieces of Danish art, comments by Danes are outnumbered by comments from other countries by 35:1.
We’re here to work, so let’s organize into a problem space
We’re here to work, so let’s organize into a problem space
We’re here to work, so let’s organize into a problem space
We’re here to work, so let’s organize into a problem space
Cut/paste redesign/mashup of https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bill-mckibben-winning-slowly-is-the-same-as-losing-198205/
By Michael Peter Edson
https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm
Lawyer and organizer Aditi Juneja.
THIS means we must all stretch a little. Do something more. Handoff.
https://twitter.com/AditiJuneja @AditiJuneja3
Lawyer. Writer. Organizer. Personal opinions. Work @protctdemocracy
. Host/creator @selfcaresundays
. Board @disabrightsfund
. #Forbes30Under30 Law & Policy 2018.
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Photo by Michael Peter Edson, Leiden pop-up festival, June 2017, CC-BY
Photo by Michael Peter Edson, CC-BY-SA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
YOUNG PEOPLE and doing, action, “winning”
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DescriptionEnglish: In August 2018, outside the Swedish parliament building, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate.
Date31 August 2018, 12:36:05SourceOwn workAuthorAnders Hellberg
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