Particular Settings in the Built Environment

I am carried away into a world cherishing the ways of the mind by the following list of neat places:

UNIVERSEUM (European Academic Heritage Network) is concerned with academic heritage in its broadest sense, tangible and intangible, namely the preservation, study, access and promotion of university collections, museums, archives, libraries, botanical gardens, astronomical observatories, and university buildings of historical, artistic and scientific significance. http://www.universeum.it/

The listing reminds me of the setting of the Philip Pullman novels, the Oxford of His Dark Materials.

And so for day 694
06.11.2008

Precious

What is prized, what is praised ...

They [disciplines in the humanities and social sciences] are indeed precious heritages. [...] Like all responsible renovators, we should first check the foundations. Furthermore, we should realize that something of this challenge should (and if we have the wisdom to encourage it, will) come from our students, who are at the end of the day our most precious and enduring heritage.

From Ted Chamberlin "Tradition and renovation" University of Toronto Bulletin, January 21, 1991.


And so for day 196
28.06.2007