(Re)framing the International.

Content:
 
Intro 7

1. 2016: A Year of Confusion 11

•  Smart Growth: A Contradiction in Terms? 12
•  A Growing Discomfort 15
•  The Age of Innocence 17
•  Policy Hesitations 21

2. Lessons from the Statistics 24

•  A Series of Data Explorations 24
•  The Only Way Used to Be Up 26
•  Have Love, Will Travel 29
•  The Visual Artist As Traveller 31
•  Trending Countries 33
•  The Flag Versus the Substance 34

3. Six Frictions and Contradictions 38

•  Inequality in a Growing Market 39
•  Freedom and Frenzy 40
•  Inspiration and the Grind 42
•  Geography or Demography? 43
•  Mobility and Privilege, Isolation and Exoticism 45
•  The Gap between Thinking and Doing 47

4. The New International Practice 49

• A Balancing Exercise 49
• A Wicked Problem 51
• 25 Tracks for a more Sustainable
• International Arts Practice 52
•  Economic Capital 54
•  Human Capital 56
•  Intellectual and Artistic Capital 58
•  Social Capital 61
•  Natural Capital 63

 And Then: Just Do It 67

 Notes 70

* Images 75