It turns out that when you’re working on a PhD, it becomes THE project, THE challenge, THE alpha and omega and immensity of weight that…
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One of my major works-in-progress over the past few years has been figuring how to move and transform the popular economics work that has been…
I don’t know if it’s been instructive, but it has been interesting to chart the reactions, negative and positive, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained has garnered…
Graphic novel is just a shorthand way of saying a comic book in long form. It sounds more grown up to say graphic novel than…
At our last Dr. Pop retreat, we decided that we wanted to experiment with important content in a story-telling way, and decided to create a…
My most formidable years were spent watching The Simpsons, reading Archie comics and playing video games. Some of the most valuable lessons I was taught…
click here to download Climate change is a big, scary topic. It’s not always easy to talk about and it can be almost impossible to convince…
Mat Johnson writes “I grew up a black boy who looked white. This was in a predominantly African-American neighborhood
One of the more beautiful graphic novels I’ve read is Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (2009). The story follows Asterios, a self-centered “paper architect” (his designs…
All of us are eternally grateful to all of you who provided us with love and support for our first-ever graphic novel project, BIG WATER,…
When I mention that I’m working on a game about urban planning, the first reaction I get is often “oh, you mean like SimCity?” Not…
It’s not that Joe Sacco is the first comics artist, a sequentialist if you’ll allow, to produce stories different from the bread and butter of…
“The structures of society need to be transformed, but the hidden motivations and assumptions on which the structures rest need to be transformed as well.”…
On June 20th the Dalai Lama came to the London School of Economics to give a talk titled ‘Resisting Intolerance: an ethical and global challenge‘….
What makes a neighborhood an awesome place to live? Is it proximity to cool coffee shops? Or to lovely public parks? While those are beautiful…
Great things have been claimed for the Olympics. Superlative things. They will be the ‘regeneration’ games, transforming East London, considered one of the poorest areas…
Just south of London’s financial district, on the other side of the Thames River stands the Heygate estate, a mammoth public housing block that once…
My son Nelson has been studying at the Univerisdad Complutense, the largest public university in Spain with 75,000 students. He has been in Madrid since…
As an LA native I would have never imagined that a bike movement would ever flourish in this city. Not because it’s impossible, but because…
Check out our article: Making Blocks and Lots: A Window into Learning and Creativity. The article describes our experience and what we learned from making…