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MIAAW.net

Miaaw.net: four monthly series, one a week, audio essays, conversations and discussions about cultural democracy and the commons.

Week 1: Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse
Week 2: Genuine Inquiry
Week 3: A Culture of Possibility
Week 4: Common Practice

What is cultural democracy? How can we move towards it? How likely are we to achieve it? What does it have to do with "the arts"? What does it have to do with a post-digital future? What does it have to do with the commons?

Society & Culture Documentary
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
37 minutes
Episodes
284
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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How we work together

How we work together

Youth Landscapers Collective is a youth arts organisation based in the National Forest area of England. We’re a collective of young people, artists and technicians who collaborate with our local comm…

00:20:50  |   Fri 07 Mar 2025
Wheeled users in the city

Wheeled users in the city

This episode addresses two questions. How can we ensure more access and equality in the development of public spaces? How can we make certain that the voices of young people become embedded in planni…

00:58:23  |   Fri 28 Feb 2025
A Culture of Possibility Now

A Culture of Possibility Now

On Episode 49 of A Culture of Possibility, François Matarasso returns from medical leave to join Arlene Goldbard in considering the podcast as its fifth year begins. They explore the intentions that …

00:53:34  |   Fri 21 Feb 2025
Joanne Coates: Listening in Rural Locations

Joanne Coates: Listening in Rural Locations

Joanne Coates practises as a socially engaged artist, using photography to ask questions about rurality and wealth inequality.


Her work explores gender, class and disability, drawing on her lived expe…

00:23:10  |   Fri 14 Feb 2025
What we do in the forest

What we do in the forest

Youth Landscapers Collective (YLC) is a youth arts organisation based in the National Forest area of England. We’re a collective of young people, artists and technicians who collaborate with our loca…

00:32:02  |   Fri 07 Feb 2025
Radio Miaaw (1)

Radio Miaaw (1)

Most months have four Fridays, and we know what to do with them. We put out a podcast: a different but related one for each Friday in the month.

Sometimes, however, a month has five Fridays, and then…

00:46:20  |   Fri 31 Jan 2025
Reclaiming & using post-colonial land

Reclaiming & using post-colonial land

This episode addresses the question: how can we reclaim land from white colonial power structures? In it Hannah Kemp-Welch & Sophie Hope talk with Nadia Shaikh and Mark Teh, who both made presentatio…

00:50:55  |   Fri 24 Jan 2025
A State of Culture

A State of Culture

This month, Owen Kelly joins Arlene Goldbard to discuss a report entitled “State of Culture” from Culture Action Europe, which describes itself as "the major European network of cultural networks, or…

01:04:00  |   Fri 17 Jan 2025
Angharad Davies: Building Trust Relationships

Angharad Davies: Building Trust Relationships

Angharad Davies is an artist and architectural researcher, and a member of public works. Her research examines the communities that exist around local, publicly accessible spaces. She believes in arc…

00:20:40  |   Fri 10 Jan 2025
Anarchy, New Society, Colin Ward

Anarchy, New Society, Colin Ward

In London, on March 29, 2010, The Daily Telegraph published an obituary that began like this. “Colin Ward, who has died aged 85, was Britain's leading anarchist, a pioneer of adventure playgrounds an…

00:32:30  |   Fri 03 Jan 2025
Culture, Food, Justice, Land

Culture, Food, Justice, Land

François Matarasso is taking a break for medical treatment. We hope he will rejoin us very soon.

On episode 47 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard interviews Clementine Sandison, an artist w…

00:46:28  |   Fri 20 Dec 2024
Embedding creative enterprise models

Embedding creative enterprise models

This episode addresses the question: should embedding creative enterprise models be a fundamental approach to sustaining the future of Socially Engaged Art?

Hannah Kemp-Welch & Sophie Hope talk with…

00:51:02  |   Fri 13 Dec 2024
The Museum of Unrest

The Museum of Unrest

The Museum of Unrest acts as a not-for-profit educational project to support artists designers and communities engaged in art and design linked to social and environmental justice. The project is an …

00:37:54  |   Fri 06 Dec 2024
TikTok's Enshittification

TikTok's Enshittification

Some months have five Fridays, and when this happens add an extra podcast to our normal schedule. In 2021 we played music licensed under creative commons licences; in 2022 we excavated four old radio…

00:34:36  |   Fri 29 Nov 2024
Jugaad: frugal innovation

Jugaad: frugal innovation

As part of the fifth edition of Social Making: “the UK’s only biennial symposium dedicated to socially engaged art practice, co-creation, and place-making” Kim Wide and Anurupa Roy led a workshop exp…

00:46:21  |   Fri 22 Nov 2024
Beyond the Binaries

Beyond the Binaries

In episode 46 of A Culture of Possibility, while François Matarasso is taking a break for medical treatment, Arlene Goldbard interviews Libby Lenkinski, Founder and President of Albi.org, “a new fund…

01:03:28  |   Fri 15 Nov 2024
Nisha Duggal: Making, Listening

Nisha Duggal: Making, Listening

Nisha Duggal is an artist working across various mediums, exploring expressions of freedom in the everyday. She is interested in the transformative qualities of making and doing, engineering situatio…

00:19:42  |   Fri 08 Nov 2024
The Long Game

The Long Game

Owen Kelly looks at three things that seem to have occurred over the last few months:

1. The failure of cultural democrats in Britain to present a manifesto, policy proposals, or cultural programme t…

00:24:18  |   Fri 01 Nov 2024
Day 1: Live from the Coffee Break

Day 1: Live from the Coffee Break

Take A Part organises Social Making: “the UK’s only biennial symposium dedicated to socially engaged art practice, co-creation, and place-making”. For the fifth edition of the symposium Take A Part m…

00:41:05  |   Fri 25 Oct 2024
Questions of Vocabulary 2

Questions of Vocabulary 2

In episode 45 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso continue a discussion they began in episode 42. They talk about words that are used in our fields of work: how they a…

01:01:54  |   Fri 18 Oct 2024
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