If you are not amazed by ‘ordinary things’, you do not understand them; they’re all extraordinary
‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’
Hello,
This is my sparse, mostly white and black, website, which contains information about things I am doing, have done and am interested in. A usual term is to write ‘currently interested in’, but that might give a false impression - many of the topics here I’ve had engagement with for at least 60 years; some, like poetry, longer. It would be fair to say the range is wide.
Raymond Cattell distinguished crystallised intelligence — what we have learned — from fluid intelligence — how we think when the path is unclear ('Theory of fluid and crystallised intelligence: A critical experiment,' Journal of Educational Psychology, 54(1), 1963). This website lives in both: some of what you find here is settled, tested, carried forward; some is still forming. A better distinction is not between two kinds of intelligence but between two states of the same recursive process — one that has stabilised enough to hold, and one still open to revision. Creativity is the container for the process. If you want to see a model of recursion and active inference in action, click here.
This is largely post-COVID. I also have a legacy website, which is all pre-COVID - where you’ll find details of a large number of projects between 2002 and 2020, films, exhibitions, museums, a science centre masterplans, etc., made when I ran my consultancy business, Stephen Feber Ltd. The whole scope of things can be reviewed by clicking on the C.V. link below.
Liberty and Free Speech
The quotation ‘If liberty means anything at all….’ is from an unused preface to Animal Farm and appears beside the statue of the great Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) on the wall of the BBC building, Portland Place, London. The statue, by Martin Jennings, was unveiled in 2017. Eric is enjoying a cigarette, which he almost certainly rolled himself.
Stephen Feber
London, 2026
