The show's grand sweep gives a sense of the interconnectedness of this age, in which ease of travel and trade, and rising levels of wealth, created a market for fine art and luxury goods across large stretches of three continents.
1. Anchor When we are riding the waves of life and feel especially tossed and turned by its storms, Elizabeth Lesser beckons us to drop anchor and root firmly in our emotional center of kindness, compassion and interconnectedness, no matter the circumstances in which we find ourselves.
In so many ways, the world we know today is so unlike the world opened up by the exhibition in which we sense the interconnectedness felt with their surroundings by the creators of bowls, figurines, incense burners or books.
However, the coincidence of the Paris climate talks and the vote to bomb Syria serve to emphasise the interconnectedness of planetary crises and the way in which oil, climate and conflict are inextricably linked.
The symposium was designed to explore the interconnectedness of all elements of the environments in which children live, learn, and play, as well as ways to prevent environmental health risks.
In his model of the face of nature, Darwin showcases the interconnectedness of all species, together with the way in which changes to that face (the hammer blows) favor some species (wedges) while forcing out others.
My favourite Douglas Adams books are the Dirk Gently novels, in which the protagonist makes use of "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things" to solve crimes in hilariously unexpected ways.
The third conceptualization of globalization focuses less on locating a specific 'driver' involved with its processes and, instead, it attempts to locate the various ways in which globalization symbolizes an unprecedented period of global interconnectedness and social transformation.
And to a lesser degree, this interconnectedness spans continents because of our common human origins back in Africa and the manner in which those original ancestors colonized the world.
When we imagine him writing his book, we see a human being, part of a society of equals in which he's participating by sharing his thoughts--the very stuff of interconnectedness.
