The RSA's main building is located just behind the Strand in central London, within easy walking distance of underground and railway stations.
Our address is 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ.
This is where events from the main lecture programme take place, and the Fellows' library, restaurant and bar are housed here.
Nearest London Underground Stations
Charing Cross (Northern Line)
Embankment (District and Circle lines)
Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line)
Leicester Square (Piccadilly and Northern Lines)
Nearest Overground Stations
Charing Cross
Waterloo
Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop
Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project.
Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge.
It’s a great project. [...]
On houses that fall into the sea
Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for £150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach.
The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change. Artist Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]
Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay
This via Thriving Too:
“An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by Pete Dungey, a Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.”
On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: ”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]
Arts
Royal British Society of Sculptors: 18@108:Found
Kate MacGarry Gallery: Ben Rivers
The Book Club: Rich Hendry's Ice Age exhibition at Marvel Bar
Gimpel Fils: Splitting in Two / Downstairs: Review Part II
Duckett and Jeffreys: Sally Taylor - Mouths with Triangles
Stephen Friedman Gallery: Wayne Gonzales
Diemar/Noble Photography: Marcus Doyle: The House Martin and the Cinema
Environment
The forest scheme that fails to protect trees
Charges against sushi chef who served whale
Solar PV failed in Germany and will fail here
Egg boss jailed for 'free range' fraud
England's lost species by region
Does switching off an escalator at Victoria station really save energy?