GABY WEINER has held various professorial and honorary research positions in universities in the UK and Sweden. Publications include Just a Bunch of Girls (1985); Feminisms in Education (1994); Closing the Gender Gap; Kids in Cyberspace, Reconstructing and Deconstructing Lives; Tales of Loving and Leaving (2016); Harriet Martineau and the Birth of the Disciplines; and Reintroducing Harriet Martineau: Pioneering Sociologist and Activist. In recent years she has also been an active contributor to the Lewes Holocaust Memorial Day Group and Martineau Society.

In this episode of Creageivity, Gaby talks particularly about her own family history, brought to life in Tales of Loving and Leaving, centred on the amazing stories of her father’s experiences across Europe, and her Grandmother’s murder in the Treblinka death camp. Harriet Martineau is something of a specialist subject for Gaby, and she makes a great case for why this almost-forgotten beacon of feminism, journalism and activism is overdue recognition.

Intro and outro music is a recording of Putta Nera by Giorgio Mainero (1585-1582) played by Gaby and the University of the Third Age recorder group.

If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!

Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a co-founder of the Old School Hub. She has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times; speaks widely at venues that have included the United Nations and the TED mainstage; and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and make age a criterion for diversity. In 2022 the United Nations named Ashton one of the Healthy Aging 50: fifty leaders transforming the world to be a better place to grow older.

In a wide-ranging and lively discussion Ashton challenges preconceptions and makes points that everyone of any age should consider - and it's fun too!

Music with thanks to Pixabay: 'Playing the Old Guitar' by NOVIFI

If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!

Architect and Designer, Londoner PETER BOSSON attended Hornsea Art School before going on to the Royal College of Art and gaining a degree in architecture. Working as a consultant for Olivetti (then the largest computer manufacturer in the world), Peter studied the lack of ergonomic thinking in computer and office design and saw the need to “Connect the disconnect between furniture and IT.” The research conducted with Olivetti engineers lead to significant changes in how we now all work with computers.

By 1990, Peter and two colleagues had founded the Colebrook Bosson Saunders design agency, creating ever more elegant ways of supporting and interfacing with computers and screens. The company’s products can be seen all over Europe and the USA, part of Peter’s drive to “Get rid of imprecision.”

Since his retirement Peter has had more time to pursue his passions of playing classical guitar, and drawing. He and his wife Liz - “40 years married and still going strong” – have designed and built their own Passive House on the South Coast of England. That’s ‘passive’ as in requiring no heating at all, and in our podcast Peter has a lot to say about how governments, local authorities and house builders could do so much to produce more efficient, effective and comfortable homes.

Is Design with a capital ‘D’ now over? Peter says that “Nothing’s rubbish anymore.” But why Colebrook Bosson Saunders products were named after Northern Rugby League Clubs remains an unrevealed mystery.

Enjoy hearing about the Architecture of the workplace and Peter’s journey through a highly creative life.

Some of Peter’s design work is at: https://pergoworkstyle.com/brand/colebrook-bosson-saunders/?srsltid=AfmBOorFFJoAh5ELQGDDJBtq7VqZseallpWahzmQMlydy0uNzc178VKE

Music from Pixabay by DVIOR SILVA with many thanks

If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!