{"id":7720,"date":"2020-12-15T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:12:10","slug":"shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7720","title":{"rendered":"SHAPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thisisshape.org.uk\/#contact-information\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shape-social.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SHAPE is a new collective name for those subjects that help us understand ourselves, others and the\u00a0human\u00a0world around us. They provide us with the methods\u00a0and forms of expression we need to build better, deeper, more colourful and more valuable lives for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From an Australian speaker at the INKE conference I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/thisisshape.org.uk\/#contact-information\">SHAPE or Social Sciences, Humanities &amp; The Arts For People &amp; The Economy<\/a>. This is an initiative of the London School of Economics, the British Academy and the Arts Council of England. It is trying to complement the attention given to STEM fields. I like how they use the word shape in various assets as in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shape of\u00a0<strong>then.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shape of\u00a0<strong>now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shape of\u00a0<strong>if.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shape of\u00a0<strong>when.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more in this Guardian story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/jun\/21\/university-and-arts-council-in-drive-to-re-brand-soft-academic-subjects?fbclid=IwAR0Bqo4Xyr1-Wy0LdhPtObUPHoagXO6W4hfphh5dgfg3r-PAyNEIhvSZn8o\">University and Arts Council in drive to re-brand &#8216;soft&#8217; academic subjects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHAPE is a new collective name for those subjects that help us understand ourselves, others and the\u00a0human\u00a0world around us. They provide us with the methods\u00a0and forms of expression we need to build better, deeper, more colourful and more valuable lives for all. From an Australian speaker at the INKE conference I learned about SHAPE or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SHAPE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-humanities-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}