The Olive Network
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
Now gathering
22 voices connected
Lead story · Arts & Culture
The third Helsinki Biennial seeks to shake us out of anthropocentrism in order to better understand the delicate and severely imbalanced relationship between humankind and nature. The curatorial concept questions human dominance by…
Arts & Culture·15 October 2024
Claire Bown: I note with interest that you say you felt ‘obligated’ to write this book. What inspired you to address the theme of societal collapse in the context of museums? Was there a specific event or realisation that prompted you to…
THINKING MUSEUM · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·15 March 2024
Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges.…
ON Network · 5 min read
Climate·3 December 2023
‘Where there is conflict and disaster, the Quaker response is through a stance of non-partisanship,’ writes Alan Clayton. Photograph: Getty Images
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·8 November 2023
The Sphinx Organization is the Detroit-based national organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts.
ON Network · 3 min read
United Nations·29 July 2026
Sudanese refugee Hawa Ahmat Adam, 18, at her secondary school in the Farchana refugee camp in eastern Chad. © UNHCR/Ala Kheir
UNHCR · 1 min read
United Nations·28 July 2026
UNHCR A Sudanese refugee carrying her child at a UNHCR registration center in Cairo, Egypt.
UN News · 5 min read
Climate·26 April 2026
“A silent cry about the climate crisis and a penetrating meditation on what life is. A film full of ideas that resonate deeply, told as a penetrating dream that shakes you awake.“
ON Network · 8 min read
Arts & Culture·1 December 2025
by Rebecca Gordon and Naomi White • November 2025 • Journal article
BURLINGTON CONTEMPORARY · 34 min read
Charities·20 January 2024
Sunday’s event follows a number of pro-Palestine marches in London in recent weeks.Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian
ON Network · 2 min read
Charities·19 December 2023
Human.Kind. presents an alternative approach to photographing humanitarian action. The exhibition showcases the work of 30 of the 3,000 photographers from around the world who’ve been nominated for the Prix Pictet since it was first…
ON Network · 1 min read
Climate·2 December 2023
The Call to Action unites many diverse actors working in food and agriculture around a shared vision and priority actions for transforming food systems. It calls for a set of time-bound, aligned, holistic, and global targets by COP29 at…
ON Network · 7 min read
Arts & Culture·8 November 2023
The Olive Network Exhibition was scheduled to take place at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens this summer, but was postponed due to Covid-19 and is now live online to coincide with the launch of the Olive Network. Within the website you will…
ON Network · 4 min read
Arts & Culture·28 January 2021
What’s the role of narratives and how do we update them once they’ve become obsolete? Anna Simpson discusses the process of shifting narratives in follow up to 2020, the agents and power dynamics implicated, and the role of futures as a…
ON Network · 8 min read
Arts & Culture·21 April 2020
We’re ( ADOBE ) proud to be partnering with iconic artists and creative luminaries from around the world to honor the workers and volunteers who are making a difference during the COVID-19 crisis — the healthcare providers, first…
ON Network · 2 min read
Economics·20 April 2020
In recent years, the market economy has become the market society. The virus could reverse that trend
ON Network · 5 min read
Charities·10 March 2020
‘Boris Johnson’s withdrawal bill leaves the children whose rights have been removed with no means of finding their family in the UK.’ A child in the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
ON Network · 4 min read
Humanitarian·18 February 2020
Green shoots ... Sima Mohammedi, 26, a refugee volunteer from Afghanistan, in a garden at the One Happy Family community centre near Moria. Photograph: Byron Smith/Getty Images
ON Network · 18 min read
Arts & Culture·16 August 2019
I guess this is a difficult question to answer. When do you actually become a photographer? Is it when you pick up your first camera? Is it when you get your first commission or publication? I started taking pictures more than 20 years ago…
ON Network · 7 min read
Feed · 24/04/2025
From personally promising to relocate vulnerable asylum seekers to speaking out against ‘cruel’ policies, the late pope was a voice for the marginalised
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Feed · 29/10/2023
Our vision is an increasingly compassionate and sustainable world with the Golden Rule at the core.
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Feed · 28/09/2023
A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian refugees in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema
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