Activities for schools and colleges

Books:

1. Manzini, E. (2015). Design, when everybody designs: An introduction to design for social innovation(Design thinking, design theory). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

2. Ehrenfeld, J. (2008). Sustainability by design a subversive strategy for transforming our consumer culture. New Haven: Yale University Press.

3. Walker, S. (2020). Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures.Milton: Taylor & Francis Group.

4. Walker, S. (2014). Designing sustainability: Making radical changes in a material world. Oxfordshire, England; New York: Routledge

5. Walker, S., Cassidy, Tom, Evans, Martyn, Holroyd, Amy Twigger, & Jung, Jeyon. (2018). Design Roots: Local Products and Practices in a Globalized World.(1st ed.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.

6. Bhamra, T., Lofthouse, Vicky, & ProQuest. (2007). Design for sustainability a practical approach(Design for social responsibility series). Aldershot, England : Burlington, VT: Gower ; Ashgate Pub.

7. Fuad-Luke, A. (2009) Design activism: Beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world. London: Earthscan.

8. Papanek, V. (1985). Design for the real world: Human ecology and social change(2nd ed., completely rev. ed.). London: Thames and Hudson.

9. Reubens, R. (2019). Holistic Sustainability Through Craft-Design Collaboration.(Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser). Milton: Taylor & Francis Group.

Articles:

1. Ceschin, Fabrizio, & Gaziulusoy, Idil. (2016). Evolution of design for sustainability: From product design to design for system innovations and transitions. Design Studies,47, 118-163.

2. Elkington, J. (2018). 25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase “Triple Bottom Line.” Here’s Why It’s Time to Rethink It., Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2018/06/25-years-ago-i-coined-the-phrase-triple-bottom-line-heres-why-im-giving-up-on-it.

3. Nascimento, A. (2009) ‘Reinventing Modernity through Tradition: Product Development in Traditional Craftsmanship’, in Nordic Design Research Conference. Oslo, Norway. Available at: http://ocs.sfu.ca/nordes/index.php/norde (Accessed: 29 March 2010). sh009/paperiview/239/157.

4. Walker, Stuart. (2019). Another Reality: The creative gift and the spiritual sense. Journal of Interior Design,44(1), 5-11.

5. Zhan, Xiaofang, & Walker, Stuart. (2019). Craft as Leverage for Sustainable Design Transformation: A Theoretical Foundation. The Design Journal,22(4), 483-503.

The best book on language myths, and one that is very accessible, is:

1. Bauer, L. and P. Trudgill (1998) Language Myths, Penguin.

The chapters are short essays but give the key arguments. The authors include notable academics. Highly recommended! A useful chapter is: Donald MacKinnon’s “Good and Bad English”, which is chapter 9 in Graddol, D., Leith D. and J. Swann (1996) English: History, Diversity and Change, Routledge.

For a more comprehensive treatment of language myths, particularly as they relate to English, I recommend:

2. Watts, Richard J. (2011) Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford University Press.

If you are interested in myths about Shakespeare, and not just his language, I recommend the very readable:

3. Maguire, Laurie and Smith, Emma (2013) 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare, Wiley-Blackwell.

This talk will contain detailed analysis of the following poems:

• Emily Dickinson, ‘These tested Our Horizon’
• Derek Walcott, ‘The Castaway’

No prior familiarity with any of these texts is necessary.

The Drama Online website about Brecht’s works

Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater: Crash Course Theater #44

The Threepenny opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.

For a feel of the era of the Weimar Republic, watch Cabaret Cabaret is a 1966 musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff. The musical was based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera which was adapted from the semi-autobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood.

1. Boal, A., 2006. Legislative theatre. London: Routledge.

2. Campbell, A. and Farrier, S., 2016. Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

3. Fortier, M., 2016. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

4. Hargrave, M., 2015. Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad or Plain Ugly?. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

5. Kelleher, J., 2009. Theatre & Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

6. Kuppers, P., 2019. Community Performance. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

7. Lichtenfels, P., 2013. Performance, Politics and Activism. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

8. Rowe, C., 2021 [forthcoming]. Performance in an Age of Digital Populism: Embodying Alternatives. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

9. Svich, C., 2021 [forthcoming]. Toward a Future Theatre: Conversations During a Pandemic. London: Methuen.

10. Woynarski, L., 2020. Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

11. Young, H., 2013. Theatre & Race. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Please feel free to contact Dr. Cami Rowe for further information about this topic – c.r.rowe@lancaster.ac.uk

To get you started (in chronological order of topic):

• Marc Morris, ‘Was King John really that bad? Yes!’, BBC History Magazine (June 2015), reprinted on the BBC History Extra website
• BBC History Extra podcast: ‘Henry III: Inside the mind of a medieval king’ (with David Carpenter)
• BBC History Extra podcast: 'Simon de Montfort's Medieval Revolution' (with Sophie Ambler)
• BBC Radio 4's In Our Time: ‘The Second Barons' War’ (with Sophie Ambler, David Carpenter and Louise Wilkinson)

Recommended reading:

• Sophie Thérèse Ambler, The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry (Picador; 2019)
• David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 (Penguin, 2004)
• David Carpenter, Magna Carta (Penguin, 2015)
• Stephen Church, Henry III: A Simple and God-Fearing King (Allen Lane, 2017)
• Adrian Jobson, The First English Revolution: Simon de Montfort, Henry III and the Barons' War (Continuum, 2012)
• Marc Morris, Edward I: A Great and Terrible King (Hutchinson, 2008)
• Marc Morris, King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta (Hutchinson, 2015)
• Nicholas Vincent, Magna Carta: Origins and Legacy (Bodleian Library, 2016)
• Nicholas Vincent, King John: An Evil King? (Allen Lane, 2020)
• Louise J. Wilkinson, Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England (Continuum, 2012)
• The Magna Carta Project website – produced by a team of expert historians, this website includes the authoritative translation of Magna Carta, new primary sources for King John’s reign with commentary, and KS2 and KS3 schools’ packs.

• A photo essay, 'Expressing the Chinese Dream', on posters promoting the Chinese government's 'Chinese Dream' campaign: https://thediplomat.com/2014/03/expressing-the-chinese-dream/
• A short documentary, 'Chinese Dreamers', on the lives and dreams of young Chinese people: https://vimeo.com/103081295
• Academic works on the Chinese Dream (for further reading)
• Gow, Michael. 2017. “The Core Socialist Values of the Chinese Dream: towards a Chinese integral state.” Critical Asian Studies 49.1: 92–116.
• Wang, Zheng. 2014. "The Chinese dream: concept and context." Journal of Chinese Political Science 19.1: 1–13.