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  1. The changing nature of work - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    What impact are new design practices and changing technology having on not just the physical office but also on the way we think about work itself? Is the idea of the individual office a thing of the past? In this program we explore the physical, social and cultural trends affecting the changing nature of the office and the way we work in the 21st century.

    Guests
    Kim Haywood- Matty, Director at Haywood-Matty and former head of culture and capability at Macquarie Bank.
    Dr Melissa Gregg, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. Author of ‘Work’s Intimacy’.
    Philip Ross, CEO of Unwork.com.
    Dr Michael O’Neill, Senior Director Workplace Research, Knoll.

    Further Information
    Photos of the Future Tense office (http://blogs.radionational.net.au/futuretense/?p=1473)
    RN By Design Segment on Melbourne Brain Centre design (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bydesign/in-the-field---melbourne-brain-centre/3937712)
    RN By Design segment on Sydney’s BVN office design (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bydesign/in-the-field-with-james-grose/3796398)
    Unwork Website (http://unwork.com/)
    Melissa Gregg’s profile (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml)
    Melissa Gregg’s blog (http://homecookedtheory.com/)
    Knoll Research (http://www.knoll.com/research/index.jsp)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-changing-nature-of-work/3955052

    —Huffduffed by AnthonyEgerton one year ago

  2. Rewiring our Brains: Nicholas Carr

    The Wheeler Centre is a new kind of cultural institution, dedicated to the discussion and practice of writing, books and ideas. The Centre is a cornerstone of Melbourne’€™s UNESCO City of Literature status.

    It doesn’t come as news that we’re living in an age where technology is producing profound changes in the ways we live and communicate, remember and socialise.

    One of the world’s most ground-breaking and thought-provoking writers on technology and its impacts, Nicholas Carr, talks to Gideon Haigh. The celebrated journalist and author of The Shallows presents his arguments about how the internet’s pervasive influence is fostering ignorance.

    Haigh and Carr discuss how information overload affects reading, writing, learning and understanding. And Carr contends that more brain activity does not equate to better, more efficient brain function, cautioning against the idea that entertaining content and ‘rich media’ is enhancing our intellectual power.

    http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/rewiring-our-brains-nicholas-carr/

    —Huffduffed by AnthonyEgerton 2 years ago