http://www.tessybritton.com Tessy Britton Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:47 +0000 http://www.tessybritton.com en http://www.tessybritton.com/Thriving http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/Thriving Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:47 +0000 Tessy Britton 51167 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51167/Thriving pics.jpg" width="556" height="599" width_o="556" height_o="599" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51167/Thriving pics_o.jpg" data-mid="219236" border="0" align="left"/> I started Thriving in 2007 as a collective platform which aims to promote creativity and personal development in education. Sir Ken Robinson inspired starting Thriving, is still a major influence on my thinking, particularly about human capacity. The website is a beautiful creation designed with Kate Andrews. The project is currently dormant ... but will hopefully come to life again soon! http://www.tessybritton.com/Garden-Design http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/Garden-Design Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:46 +0000 Tessy Britton 51149 I qualified as a Garden Designer at The English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Although focusing on Social Spaces and education for the last 5 years, I am passionate about growing projects in communities and urban farming, and am always looking for opportunities to bringing it into my own projects. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51149/potat_600.jpg" width="600" height="602" width_o="2048" height_o="2056" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51149/potat_o.jpg" data-mid="14058027" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.tessybritton.com/Mindapples http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/Mindapples Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:39 +0000 Tessy Britton 51018 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51018/lauren.jpg" width="500" height="375" width_o="500" height_o="375" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51018/lauren_o.jpg" data-mid="218775" border="0" align="left"/> UPDATE: As of January 2012 I will no longer be working on Mindapples. Mindapples is a project co-founded by Andy Gibson and myself. Mindapples is a social movement to promote individual self-management of mental wellbeing. The original “5-a-day” campaign encouraged people to take care of their physical health through simple daily activities, and we want to do the same thing for mental health. We aim to create a stigma-free public debate about mental wellbeing, simply by asking everybody the question: “What’s your five-a-day?” Lauren Currie worked on Mindapples as part of her MA and has had some wonderful ideas. Thousands of people have answered the questionnaire! <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51018/lauren2.jpg" width="475" height="550" width_o="475" height_o="550" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51018/lauren2_o.jpg" data-mid="218776" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.tessybritton.com/RSA-Social-Brain-Project http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/RSA-Social-Brain-Project Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:39 +0000 Tessy Britton 51195 I am a member of the Social Brain Project steering group at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). "In policy circles, the implicitly assumed model of decision-making in the last thirty years or so has been that of ‘rational-choice’. This model, imported from economics, represents people as perfectly rational and wholly self-interested. A slew of recent research in the neuro- and behavioural sciences has brought the usefulness of the model into question, showing that people are often systematically ‘irrational’ and not only self-interested. This means we should perhaps be more humble about our rational powers yet more optimistic about our ‘prosocial’ possibilities.' Working with a collaborative group the project aims on produce a new model of decision-making that is informed by such research. http://www.tessybritton.com/Power-of-8 http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/Power-of-8 Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:38 +0000 Tessy Britton 51021 The Power of 8 Project aims to stimulate a public conversation about a positive future. The project is led by Anab Jain, and together with 7 other collaborators prepared an exhibition September 2009. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/powerof8_invite.png" width="670" height="545" width_o="696" height_o="567" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/powerof8_invite_o.png" data-mid="343035" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/power8 - 2.jpg" width="670" height="223" width_o="775" height_o="259" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/power8 - 2_o.jpg" data-mid="674681" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/power8 -3.jpg" width="670" height="462" width_o="823" height_o="568" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/power8 -3_o.jpg" data-mid="674682" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/po8-2_1.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/po8-2_1_o.jpg" data-mid="216885" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/PO8-4.jpg" width="670" height="458" width_o="821" height_o="562" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/PO8-4_o.jpg" data-mid="216881" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/openweekend_poster.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51021/openweekend_poster_o.jpg" data-mid="343039" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.tessybritton.com/Mind-Brain-and-Education-Society http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/Mind-Brain-and-Education-Society Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:37 +0000 Tessy Britton 51028 The International Mind, Brain and Education Society is relatively new and very interesting. I joined the society in 2009 and presented a poster of my MA research at the IMBES Conference in Philadelphia in May 2009. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51028/IMG_0218.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/51028/IMG_0218_o.JPG" data-mid="216830" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.tessybritton.com/PHD http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/PHD Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:36 +0000 Tessy Britton 795648 UPDATE NOVEMBER 2011 - The commencement of this PHD has been deferred until further notice. I start my PHD at the Institute of Education in October 2011 under the supervision of Professor Andrew Tolmie. The study will focus on expanding the research results of my MA research into learning processes for enhancing executive control, and integrating wellbeing and learning into a metacognitive framework. http://www.tessybritton.com/The-RSA-Fellowship-Council http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/The-RSA-Fellowship-Council Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:35 +0000 Tessy Britton 51201 I love everything about the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) I was delighted to be Chair of the new RSA Fellowship Council. 2009/2010 and remain a member of council. http://www.tessybritton.com/The-Civic-Crowd http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/The-Civic-Crowd Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:13:50 +0000 Tessy Britton 3191801 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/3191801/tcc3_600.jpg" width="600" height="317" width_o="821" height_o="435" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/3191801/tcc3_o.jpg" data-mid="16336216" border="0" align="left"/> The Civic Crowd aims to map amazing initiatives and ideas for citizen-powered change, providing an open public domain resource where people can: - Share the Projects they are working on and get feedback and Support from the community. - Discuss ideas for improvements to their area and help realise them through local collaboration. - Offer their skills and Support for the benefit of the community. - Appreciate great Projects or Ideas to express their gratitude and backing. - Propose actions they are willing to take to help others realise their Projects. - Volunteer to Support each other to turn Proposals into reality. The Civic Crowd is inspired by the Compendium for the Civic Economy, Hand Made, the Community Lover's Guide to the Universe series, and the Britain's 50 Top New Radicals project by The Observer and NESTA; but the map belongs to everyone... This infrastructure was designed by 00:/, Social Spaces, and Cassie Robinson. Special thanks to NESTA and the Hub Islington. The Civic Crowd is sponsored by Design Council. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/3191801/tcc1_600.jpg" width="600" height="432" width_o="661" height_o="477" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/3191801/tcc1_o.jpg" data-mid="16336181" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.tessybritton.com/Into-the-Field http://www.tessybritton.com/following/tessybritton.com/Into-the-Field Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:51:02 +0000 Tessy Britton 3099585 Into the Field is a research-based experience, where you will visit a variety of initiatives; meet others interested in this area; and have the opportunity to process and analyse new ideas and thoughts together. This visit to Rotterdam is designed by the Social Spaces team, Maurice Specht (based in Rotterdam), Laura Billings and Tessy Britton (based in UK), drawing on their study of local projects from around the world, and experiencing the extraordinary learning benefits of visiting and observing projects first hand. <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/3099585/into the field screen2.jpg" width="492" height="416" width_o="492" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/0/2525/3099585/into the field screen2_o.jpg" data-mid="15819678" border="0" align="left"/>