{"id":3256,"date":"2025-07-08T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:24:30","slug":"sunday-scraps-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sunday-scraps-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Public Service Broadcasting - They Gave Me A Lamp\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FWvK7Uffmts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tCv83D3CQOY?feature=shared\">Junkyard Dogs<\/a> looks very good but grim \/ this piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/news\/national\/article\/the-salt-path-whats-in-the-book-and-what-the-observer-has-found\">investigative journalism<\/a> about the real story behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UQ7RJCOm-c8\">Salt Path<\/a> heroes deserves a Netflix doco \/ this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapihan.coffee\/\">Filipino bakery<\/a> in Battersea is amazing \/\u00a0was poet <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Vlz3mf7jxkc?feature=shared\">David Whyte<\/a> the OG &#8216;mental health and wellbeing at work&#8217; guru? \/ the interesting landscape work of Colombian practice <a href=\"https:\/\/connatural.co\/\">connatural<\/a> \/ as a lapsed Canadian, I should probably go check out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolford_Chapel\">Wolford Chapel<\/a> at some point \/ the reuse practice <a href=\"https:\/\/localworksstudio.com\/projects\/\">Local Works Studio<\/a> is interesting \/ I should read the government&#8217;s newly published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/technology-adoption-review\">Technology Adoption Review<\/a> \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-11\/ilkkaracan.pdf\">purple economy framework<\/a> is interesting and all about care \/ the beauty of Nelly Robert&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenmuseum.org.uk\/new-acquisition-the-botanical-orchid-paintings-of-nelly-roberts\">hand painted orchids<\/a> \/ is it a <a href=\"https:\/\/labassecour.com\/project\/brico-saucisse\/\">building site<\/a> or is it a pop-up restaurant? neither, it&#8217;s a circus act \/ an old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b0074rxx\/horizon-19951996-fermats-last-theorem\">BBC Horizon<\/a> show about a very hard maths problem was fascinating \/ adding the travel book <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27Usage_du_monde\">l&#8217;Usage du Monde<\/a> to my neverending list \/ can <a href=\"https:\/\/community.openai.com\/t\/how-deep-does-ai-deception-really-go\/1253176\">AI deceive<\/a> or are we too tired to ask questions? \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/kadist.org\/work\/safely-maneuvering-across-lin-he-road\/\">safest<\/a> way to cross the road according to Lin Yilin \/ I missed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/en-GB\/exhibitions\/christian-marclay\">Christian Marclay&#8217;s Doors<\/a> when it was in London so am I really going to have to go see it in New York?<\/p>\n<p>In social news, I&#8217;ve been going back to jiving recently thanks to Julie Miranda&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulaboogie.co.uk\/\">fabulous classes<\/a> and I volunteered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hernehillvelodrome.com\/\">Herne Hill Velodrome<\/a> , helping them run their caf\u00e9 in a heatwave. It was warm but lovely. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mediale.org.uk\/\">Mediale<\/a>&#8216;s in person board meeting next week which is exciting and I&#8217;m heading to Bath to contribute to a <a href=\"https:\/\/liveworkstudio.com\/insight\/transition-templates-pathways-to-net-zero\/\">workshop<\/a> for an AHRC funded project.<\/p>\n<p>In job seeking news, I have up to 4 short term contracts that may or may not materialise. I do need to invoice this month so I hope one of them crystallises soon.\u00a0 In full time roles, I&#8217;m looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odgers.com\/opportunities\/?r=0#AssignDetail.aspx?guid=93380\">CEO role at ARIA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.nationalgrid.com\/UK\/job\/Warwick-Director%2C-Innovation-and-Digital-CV34-6DA\/1303738500\/\">Director of Innovation and Digital at the National Grid<\/a>. I&#8217;ll go for a walk now. Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junkyard Dogs looks very good but grim \/ this piece of investigative journalism about the real story behind the Salt Path heroes deserves a Netflix doco \/ this Filipino bakery in Battersea is amazing \/\u00a0was poet David Whyte the OG &#8216;mental health and wellbeing at work&#8217; guru? \/ the interesting landscape work of Colombian practice&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sunday-scraps-91\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #91<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Qw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}