BY DAVID CROSS and CAMERON BISHOP — Perhaps it is appropriate that the etymology of risk is caught between two competing meanings. The Italian word risco loosely translates to cliff which implies that negotiating said cliff is not for the fainthearted.
BY DARIO VACIRCA — In the age of virality, censorship is a risky business. We’ve seen it play out time and time again: an attempt to bury an idea or image only ends up amplifying it.
BY NADIA ODLUM — This contribution draws upon my experience researching and learning within an adventure playground, and considers what these environments (and the people who facilitate them) might teach us about conditions that allow for a positive approach to risk.
BY FIONA HILLARY, CAMERON BISHOP and DAVID CROSS — Since the pandemic further upended certainties about what a university should do to build culture, our once bustling campuses have increasingly come to resemble empty husks – hollowed out not just by lockdowns and the attendant absence from campus, but by
BY PAULINA LAROCCA — Risk – from the Italian risicare, ‘to dare’ – carries both danger and possibility, offering transformative rewards when one embraces uncertainty (Bernstein, 1996).
BY JUDITH BISHOP — If negative freedom, as historian Timothy Snyder reminds us in his book On Freedom (2024), is ‘freedom from’ (constraint, control, oppression…), positive freedom is ‘freedom to’.
BY JESSICA HUGHES — For those drawn to the creative industries, an inherent drive to innovate and express often fuels the work they aim to produce. As a film and media studies lecturer, I've spent years guiding creative industries students in the foundational principles of academic and professional communication.
CAMERON BISHOP and DAVID CROSS in conversation with SALLY JANE NORMAN on weather the university is irretrievable as an incubator for exploring provocative ideas.