Barbican October 18th – 19th, 2014 by Nic Ho Chee This weekend saw the Battle of Ideas return to the Barbican for its tenth year, filling the many wonderfully Brutalist corridors, rooms and venues with conversation and conjecture. Held over two days, the festival ran open-ended, topical debates in the various spaces afforded by the […]

by Katharine Fry Battle of Ideas returned for its 9th weekend with two days of panel debates at the Barbican across streams including Keynote Controversies, School Fights, Literature Wars, Battle Over Scientific Information and other headings of that ilk. I began the morning an eager, if sleepy, beaver with an arts education to defend and […]