Make the World a More Beautiful Place

Make the world a more beautiful place. Starting with where you are right now.

(few spaces have been made as beautiful as London’s Southbank Undercroft)

Look, I’m not going to quit the politics and power-up the aesthetics. Nor am I going to go all self-improvement on you. I am as rabidly against the individualism of the how-to industry as I ever was. And there’s serious politics in beauty – just take a look at my post “art, violence, and the way we occupy space“.

But whilst this has an eye on the political – indeed it *is* political to the extent that it advocates the reclamation of public spaces for the public consciousness, and raising the minutiae of the everyday above the level of functionality to the plane of beauty – this is a New Year type of post. It is programmatic, manifesto-ish.

I want to do three…