I have delivered keynote lectures, speeches and address all over the place. Many of them weren’t published, and have been on topics that I haven’t subsequently published much in. So, I thought offering edited versions of some of these lectures might be useful. Each has a short abstract so that it is clear what the lecture is about. More to come.

I have delivered keynote lectures, speeches and address all over the place. Many of them weren’t published, and have been on topics that I haven’t subsequently published much in. So, I thought offering edited versions of some of these lectures might be useful. Each has a short abstract so that it is clear what the lecture is about. More to come.

Views and Encounters
I would say that my biggest concern at this time is with the whole idea of civilisation. Civilisation is to do with quality of life. There is no point in having art of any kind if it doesn’t impact the quality of life for everyone.

Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to have met some of the greatest artists, designers, architects, and scholars of our times, and fortunate also to meet extraordinary people from every walk of life. When you run a museum next door to the White House, you meet all kinds of people: presidents, prime ministers, actors, businesspeople. My aim here isn’t to run a site for name-dropping, but to explore, through articles, interviews, and encounters, the condition of civilisation.