Comments on: Newspaper + expandable coat = survival http://GlimmerSite.com/2009/08/22/newspaper-expandable-coat-survival/remix/ For creative thinkers interested in making a better world by design Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paula Sharratt http://GlimmerSite.com/2009/08/22/newspaper-expandable-coat-survival/remix/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Paula Sharratt Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:02:17 +0000 http://GlimmerSite.com/?p=1103#comment-57 Beautiful. I'm sure that hundreds of people have looked at this and think this...but why haven't they bothered to comment? In a way, just like the way your son noticed that you were 'erratic' in your giving to homeless people, that's the way blogs work, (society works?), that the relationship between seeing something beautiful and attributing it is always problematic: is it because we need to be more transparent and democratic about what we assume is 'ours'? There's a really interesting example of a lawyer who went to a fotball match with his son who became cold sitting. He and his wife designed a seat cover that warms up, manufactured it locally and have found interest from lots of football teams: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Lawyer-novel-answer-cold-seats/article-1399812-detail/article.html He wasn't a designer but had cultural access to the tools he needed, the energy to see his project through is what's important and a recognition that critically, we all know how much we are motivators and innovators for each other! Beautiful. I’m sure that hundreds of people have looked at this and think this…but why haven’t they bothered to comment? In a way, just like the way your son noticed that you were ‘erratic’ in your giving to homeless people, that’s the way blogs work, (society works?), that the relationship between seeing something beautiful and attributing it is always problematic: is it because we need to be more transparent and democratic about what we assume is ‘ours’?

There’s a really interesting example of a lawyer who went to a fotball match with his son who became cold sitting. He and his wife designed a seat cover that warms up, manufactured it locally and have found interest from lots of football teams: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Lawyer-novel-answer-cold-seats/article-1399812-detail/article.html

He wasn’t a designer but had cultural access to the tools he needed, the energy to see his project through is what’s important and a recognition that critically, we all know how much we are motivators and innovators for each other!

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