A Tale of Two Cultures: "All good tales have a beginning. Ours starts with an event in the summer of another age. In 1851 the Great Exhibition brought not only a celebration of the best of human creativity to this small corner of London but an ambition and idealism on which a community like no other was built. Art and science have often been regarded as somehow divided, two cultures with mutually irreconciliable views on the world. But Albertopolis is a community that shows how wrong that is. The two cultures do not split Albertopolis, they coexist in the minds of its occupants. The people who live and work here - and those who flock to the neighbourhood in their millions each year - cannot help but be representatives of both. Albertopolis is a community of arts nestled inside one of science, a community of science built within one of arts. The two are intertwined - erected on the same foundations and without borders. It is also a community that joins our past to our future, two cultures in time. Walk among the local buildings and you will see the past preserved in the present, but step inside and you will see the future happening today. TEDxAlbertopolis brings all of this together in the Royal Albert Hall. The arts and the sciences, the ideas and the people, on a shared stage at the heart of the story. It is not enough to look back at how the tale has unfolded so far. Join us in writing a new chapter and help us shape where it’s headed." - TEDxAlbertopolis ♥ tedxalbertopolis/blog/57651418244/a-tale-of-two-cultures-
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:12:32 +0000
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