Freedom, Human Rights, Language, Video
Banúlacht is an Irish feminist organisation and part of a global women’s movement and, as such, is committed to political action. One of the major achievements of 2010 was the development of the Mná Sasa Manifesto, a unique document created by Irish women who have...
Diversity, Language, Video
Benetton Live Windows is an initiative by Fabrica, Benetton Group’s research centre on communication, conceived to create a new language between people and retail space. Thanks to a co-operative network among major educational and cultural institutions, it...
Diversity, Language, Peace, Video
In Spring 2010 some friends and me attended a workshop at Fabrica-Italy. Led by Todd St. John from huntergatherer.com, the task was to create a short animation for UNESCO that celebrates cultural diversity. In a team of four we created this little story starring this...
Design & Technology, Language, Literacy, Video
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it’s all good...
Language, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old...
Language, Teaching Resource, Video
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas behind the characters and their...
Design & Technology, Freedom, Language, Literacy, Video
Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of “social technology” that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool:...
