Of course #notallmenincars 😂 (but let the record show I am yet to encounter this behaviour from a woman 🤷🏻♀️)
08.03.2026 10:45
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Of course #notallmenincars 😂 (but let the record show I am yet to encounter this behaviour from a woman 🤷🏻♀️)
You must realise you have only made half of the road safe.
So it’s REALLY weird for you to get angry at me for not crossing and speed off in a huff.
I have lost count of how many times this has happened 😂
International Women’s Day PSA for men in cars (does this happen to other people?)
If I am trying to cross a road and you slow down and beckon me out in front of you, I will not cross if there is traffic speeding in the other direction.
Isaac Julien at Victoria Miro
Beauty, complexity, layered imagery all held in the darkness and enclosure of the room and soundscape. Tone of hopeful wisdom, like receiving a prophecy. Enough narrative to give form, enough ambiguity to feel potent
www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/...
First substack on Citrini, unstable systems and a return to superstition
vickypaynewrites.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
I keep thinking about the body in all this too. About our physicality, about nature, about the inherent balance of natural systems and how few steps there used to be in the feedback loops between our selves and those systems.
It doesn’t feel like input into a system, output out of the system.
It feels like say these words, do this thing and hopefully the sun will come up again tomorrow, the crops won’t fail
and in this world we don’t understand and can’t control, policy actions, think pieces, business decisions start to feel more like bargaining chips with the gods- prophecies, doom-saying, spell casting, manifestations.
We built and analysed and contained and systematised, but what we have created feels more and more like chaos.
Entropy baby - I guess it’s inescapable
It feels like humanity, having progressed from our terrified “not knowing” at the mercy of nature through all the understanding, control, architectures and structures of the modern world, is somehow retuning to a state of not knowing, not being able to predict, not being in control
“when the hedges grow faster than the gardeners can trim them, when the system calcifies into something no one can move through — we do not attempt to work the land of the existing Versailles. We do not call in Brown. We build a new Versailles next door”
minutes.substack.com/p/on-the-gar...
Framed as a counterpoint to Citrini, but wildly interesting in its own right.
Feels very relevant to thinking about the planning and development system.
Reminded me of Adam Curtis “Shifty” in the exposure of how long established and dearly held “truths” can break down
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
super interesting in many ways but primarily on the idea of “non cyclical cycles”, broken feedback loops and an absence of systemic self correction.
The next right action drifts up, the next idea presents itself, the next work block feels alive and productive.
More of the art practice here:
www.instagram.com/the_field_ar...
Persisting only with nothing is, as you’d expect, unproductive.
But persisting only with something eventually seems to lead there too. The system gets congested and grinds to a halt.
Gently cycling between the two; loading the system, then giving it space, seems to generate momentum.
Woman sitting in front an an incomplete cool toned abstract painting in blues
I’ve been painting more this year.
It seems to need the same interplay of something + nothing that I recognise from strategic work.
Something = attention, planning, discussion, analysis, research.
Nothing = deliberate inattention, void, stepping away, moving the body, letting the mind wander.
Industry
Learning and collaging
“an exploratory evening…that will examine the complex notion of 'self. Discover links between faith, beauty and expression; experiment creatively with self-portraiture; and experience the connective power of music”
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@britishacademy.bsky.social
Currently free on Audible 😍
This and “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius are very accessible and appealing to my millennial ear, being presented essentially as listicles and concise inspirational quotes
Our conciousness depends on embodiment, feelings, friction with nature and relational contact with other people
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
🆕What happens when planning rules are clearer and more predictable?
Our latest briefing examines Croydon’s Suburban Design Guide and its impact on small-site housing delivery. 👇
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I've learned everything I can about this chart and what it means for planning for more houses in cities.
The report is out tomorrow! You can watch me talk about the chart and more at the launch event tomorrow, 2pm.
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A politically provocative title, but actually concise summary of stats around constrained supply, depleted demand and affordability issues: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
My thoughts for the Future Homes Hub focus on its relationship with the NPPF, including: the role and status of design policies across the two documents; the relationship between certainty and flexibility; and how quality standards align with delivery.
The publication of the new Design and Placemaking PPG lands in a system that is simultaneously being asked to go faster and do better. Thinking in terms of system improvement rather than trade-offs, how does it sit within the wider policy picture?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...
Entries for the 2026 Housing Design Awards are now open!
I am pleased to join the ranks of the many excellent judges this year on behalf of Future Homes Hub
Submit your entry by 6th March:
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I can understand that perspective
