Brian Eno and Finn Williams in conversation: Planning for the longer now
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2018
- Musician and artist Brian Eno and Finn Williams in conversation, ask how the public sector might find a new agency to create a long-term public value.
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How can we create real and lasting public value within an increasingly narrow and short-sighted ‘here and now’? 24 hour news cycles are leaving politicians struggling to look past tomorrow’s headlines, let alone think beyond electoral terms. National leaders are conceiving policies in reaction to their twitter feeds. The most globalised countries are turning their backs on the world to look in on themselves. So who is really doing politics now? And where are new ideas for the future of cities and society coming from?
The state was once in the business of building futures, but over a period of decades it ceded the initiative to the private sector. The public sector’s delivery capacity has been broken down into contracts, its appetite for risk outsourced, and its skills and knowledge salami-sliced by efficiency cuts. Now the short-term savings of handing over to companies like Carillion or Capita are starting to add up to long-term costs - not just financially, but also socially, and democratically. Who is left to plan beyond the dates the contracts end?
Can bureaucracies be creative? What role should science have in government today? Who are the civil servants of the 21st century? How do you define government when the lines between public, private and civic society are increasingly blurred? Can we imagine a 'civilian politics'? How could governments and citizens collaborate to plan for a bigger here, and longer now?
Finn Williams is a Visiting Professor at IIPP, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Public Practice, a social enterprise building a new generation of planners to shape places for the public good.
I find listening to Brian eno both calming and stimulating, its like meditation for the artist or creative thinker, It calms my busy mind. 🙂. Hes like the prime minister of creative thought °•●☆
Brian’s opening sequence is stunning. It should be taught in all primary school classes.
Starts at 5:57
First 2 minutes of Eno speaking and I'm already impressed dammit
I agree that it's honorable to pay your taxes.
I've had My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in my car cd player for 10 years now. Great driving music :)
I recommend "Taking Tiger mountain (by strategy)". It was recorded in 1974, and was so far ahead and outside of it's time... it's my favorite Eno non-ambient music. Some great songs on that one. Seriously. On UA-cam too.
I heard the "Scenious" story in another video. I guess we all repeat things, particularly as we get older... _I_ do. Still, it's worth repeating some things. Maybe by watching all the Eno talks on UA-cam, I'll absorb his mental processes (distilled Eno), and get some Eno-ish results. Cool.
would love to here brian eno talking about this stuff with geoffrey west from the santa fe institute
Finalmente!
An interesting and important conversation, thank you! I just wish people stopped using Finland as a model for a progressive society: our government for the past several years has been working hard to dismantle all the progress we'd achieved and subject the country to the dead old neoliberalist agenda: cutting A LOT from education, child care and social benefits while boosting corporate tax breaks and shareholder profits, ignoring the corporate tax evasion, and privatizing essential services. And on top of that they keep deporting refugees to the conflict zones since no one seems to have a clue about the global situation (or they just don't care). Our government is one of the most unintelligent and unaware there is, continuously wasting potential, and still believing in fairy tales like Trickle Down, Santa Claus, Invisible Hand, Close The Borders, 9 to 5 Jobs and so on.
Watch out for screeching sound a little after 1:29:00
Fish 'n' chips (not RFID ones - real spuds) in Kilburn in January?
Motes in the eye, portcullis is shut...
🏠A skull isn't much
Of a c-c-castle to live in🏠
Different domains? How about a few homeless people? Has Bri ever met a poor person?
I think he is being a bit optimistic that humanity will survive several hundred years. However despite that caveat Eno always leaves you with a lot to mull over.
I think humanity will evolve, simply because we have choice.
@@JohnnyMotel99
I admire your optimism and wish I shared it. Humanity now appears to be at a critical juncture vis a vis the problems with the climate and particularly global warming. A juncture that will determine whether we survive as a species or not.
Given the scale of the changes we have to make. Given the time scale left before global warming becomes irreversible. Given the powerful political and economic forces vested in maintaining the status quo and denying climate catastrophe it's difficult to see the cavalry coming to the rescue anytime soon.
@@philbell5774 Phil, I would add the caveat that I find it very difficult to see humanity evolving at the same or greater population numbers. Whether it's climate change, wars, disease (or aliens) I can see our numbers being drastically reduced.
Why did you call your dog "Fruit salts"?.
maurice Kiely
Brian, it is possible to "privatize the costs and socialize the profits" for some entrepreneurs who have discovered that in the hierarchy of approaches to living effectively, the approach of optimizing human flourishing for as many people as possible, including oneself, is at the top, and that applying this approach to life, business and pleasure is in fact easily possible and greatly rewarding.
It is unlikely that someone who chooses to deny a transcendent realm and closes their mind to facts of reality here on the planet and to questions pertaining to our origin and events after our death, and who appears to let sentimentality as regards the now passing feminine Zeitgeist and the desirability of more socialization cloud their judgment can slough off a debilitating cerebralism and get active to honor the true purpose of our existence here, which is alleviating suffering. Now, with the RFID implant looming, the Bible ban, the growing hive mind, the many ill young people unfit for the knocks of life outside their safe spaces, the censoring of free speech and the decline in the standard of music and movies, the rise in interest in Lamarckian evolution and the idiocy of Billericay Dickie Dawkins' best efforts, the social behavior score system in China, many including myself are very unhappy to pay taxes to what is no better than an enemy mob. I find myself in strong disagreement with your liberal viewpoint; transhumanism is not my idea of progress for humanity, if progress is flourishing, increased empathy and ability to apply skillful compassion. Real evil exists. The lack of passion in modern music that you've mentioned is a result of a denial of evil and its inevitable punishment, the denial of Judgment after death and the prospect of Hell. Real Joy comes from living right, and this includes a Fear of the consequences of not doing so. It's not either Joy or Fear - it's moving away from fear to joy through doing the right thing! Init Brian?
Brian Eno, I love his work, should stick with his domain and leave comments on architecture, such as Le Corbusier, for those who are expert in this field.Eno is not.
What he's domain? Because he never did Just music, he always worked with tec., visual art/architecture...He's a creative thinker he can talk about whatever he wants to, He is not saying that he is an authority. Most of the most influential architectural works are designed by creative thinkers and made by them + experts and this extends to various areas such as science. so, no. most of the time the "experts" for being so engrossed in the topic, working on it for so long, get caught up in the technical part and stop seeing new possibilities, becomes narrow-minded. so it is important to have a conversation where several domains offer insights.
@@jessica5497 .. I guess I have been a bit tough in my comment. I am glad that you responded to me, so it is not just wasted words in the universe. At least we are talking. I agree with you when experts, such as architects, became machines who repeat everyday the same robotic professional patterns. Nowadays, in my view, far too many people who have access to the medias grab a microphone and talk for one hour about anything. Eno is not an authority however his channel of communication can leads him to be considered as such by the listeners. Don't tell me that you are not aware of the power of communications. Eno is indeed a smart thinker and is using this skill very consciously. I still like him a lot though.