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What’s the Rush?

What’s the Rush?. The Recession, Fast Movements and the Way Forward. Recession. Different Degrees of a Recession. The Fast Movement. What aspects of life have become too fast?

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What’s the Rush?

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  1. What’s the Rush? The Recession, Fast Movements and the Way Forward

  2. Recession • Different Degrees of a Recession

  3. The Fast Movement • What aspects of life have become too fast? • “Read your mail just twice a day. Recapture your lifes time and relearn to dream. Join the slow email movement.” A senior executive at IBM.

  4. The Slow Movement • Slowing down • Global effects

  5. The Slow Lifestyle • Slow Cities • Slow Homes • Slow Travel • Slow Food

  6. Traditional Lifestyles • Old ways • United society - politics

  7. Community • “giant communal soup” The Times (London, England) (Oct 9, 2008): p31 • Capital growth project

  8. Traditional ways of life • “multimillion-pound investors hurriedly moving their wealth out of stocks and shares and into farmland”The Times (London, England) (Feb 1, 2008): p12

  9. Fashion • “affordable, stylish clothing that will last more than a single season doesn’t come from a shop” The Independent on Sunday (London, England) (Nov 2, 2008): p30

  10. Benefits • Will we benefit from traditional values? • Or from slowing down? • Environmental • Physical • Emotional

  11. Conclusion • “The secret is balance. Instead of doing everything faster, do everything at the right speed. Sometimes fast. Sometimes slow. Sometimes somewhere in between”. CarlHonoré

  12. This presentation was by: • Alana Bracaglia • Amna Talat • Jennifer Hope • Joanna Courage • Laura Thomas • Michael John Bolton-Heaton • Talia Rodney

  13. appendix • PHOTOGRAPHS, in order of use: • http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/images/recession.gif • http://traxus4420.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/unemployment_line-749345.jpg • http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/123631804_0e305820a4_m.jpg • http://www.massamarittima.info/eventi/citta_slowuk.htm • http://baby.lovetoknow.com/wiki/images/Baby/thumb/1/1a/Newborn_sleep.jpg/300px-Newborn_sleep.jpg • http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2304/2230087295_80a1743147.jpg • http://www.urbanseed.org/journal/mt/mc/archives/slow%20food.jpg • http://fineartsheritagesociety.com/images/121_v2.jpg • http://www.vernoncottage.co.uk/images/files/Home%20made%20soup.jpg • http://aavaas.com/wp-content/uploads/homegrown.jpg • http://www.mass.gov/agr/markets/images/HighLawnFarm.jpg • http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/10/03/anastasiaspillane_wideweb__470x407,0.jpg • http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/images/cover_04.jpg • http://www.cityfarmer.info/mayor-launches-capital-growth-to-boost-locally-grown-food-in-londonproject-set-to-create-2012-new-food-growing-spaces-for-london-by-2012/ • http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/studying/postgrad/environment/fenner_clouds.jpg • VIDEO CLIPS TAKEN FROM YOU TUBE, in order of use: • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJ2AR2G8w0 • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzeDExYPbw • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UnySyl0uh3g • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0W18Z_TZM

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