“I can loose my sense of direction but I can´t loose the instinct to dream”. This quote by our Chief Editor started this month issue about “Orientation”. So we decided to close the month with a video about “a dream that comes true” by the 23 years old Maggie Doyne who tells her story at the Do Lecturers (Talks that inspire action).

Maggie Doyne — Why the human family can do better from The Do Lectures on Vimeo.

Back to Shanghai after a 3 months break in Italy: cloudy weather, cloudy and jetlagged feelings, I am not in a good mood. ... After two days ... I am ready to do something nice to bond with the city again. So I am heading slightly north of downtown Shanghai to the cradle of Shanghai’s Art scene, Moganshan Lu ...

Objects have been talking to us in more or less articulate ways for quite a while. From dolls that cry or laugh (until the battery runs out) to electric toothbrushes that tell us when it’s okay to rinse. “Talk to Me”, an exhibition recently opened at the Museum of Modern Art explores....

“Ex-Offenders at the scene of crime”: sad stories with a happy end. Stories of people who lost their bearings in life and found them again. Stories of the lack of a sound sense of direction, of an ethical guidance. Stories of people who did a crime and found in it the strength, also in desperately difficult circumstances, to go finally straight.

At the end of July London hosted the Hackney WickED Art Festival. It was the 4th edition for this particular event for contemporary art culture, held in the area of Hackney Wick and Fish Island, a few steps away from the Overground station, in one of the areas with the highest concentration of artist studios not only in London but in Europe!!

I can loose my sense of direction but I can´t loose the instinct to dream. I´ll pass this saying on posterity authorizing it to use it! In 2003 I faced this issue. After so many years I want to ask you all if we are able now to choose the right direction. To orient yourself means to choose, even browsing through all the abundance that surrounds us.