Institute of Art and Ideas

The IAI is a not-for-profit organisation with the stated aim of "rescuing philosophy from technical debates about the meaning of words and returning it to big ideas and putting them at the centre of culture."{{Cite web |date=2018-01-17 |title=Introducing the IAI: About Us |url=https://iai.tv/about-iai/introducing-the-iai/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks |language=en}} As such, the Institute runs a website, IAI.tv, which provides articles, courses and podcasts by various scholars and intellectuals on the topics of philosophy, science, politics and the arts.{{cite web|title=Forum for Philosophy|date=7 July 2014|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/vicechair/|publisher=LSE |access-date=9 November 2021}}{{cite web |title=The Institute of Art and Ideas|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/the-institute-of-art-and-ideas/page/1/|publisher=openDemocracy | access-date=26 September 2021}}{{cite web |title=IAI.tv|url=https://iai.tv/|access-date=26 September 2021}} The IAI is also responsible for organising the bi-annual festival HowTheLightGetsIn, the biggest philosophy and music festival in the world{{cite web| author=Maya Oppenheim|title=HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/howthelightgetsin-2021-music-festival-london-b1915568.html|work=The Independent|date=26 October 2021}} aimed at "tackling the dearth of philosophy in daily life", in addition to monthly IAI Live events.{{cite web| author=Maya Oppenheim|title=HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/howthelightgetsin-2021-music-festival-london-b1915568.html|work=The Independent|date=26 October 2021}}{{cite web| author=Paul Pardi|title=Live Debates from the Institute of Art and Ideas|url=https://www.philosophynews.com/post/2020/10/22/Live-Debates-from-the-Institute-of-Art-and-Ideas.aspx|publisher=Philosophy News|date=22 October 2020}}

The IAI was founded by philosopher Hilary Lawson with a mission to explore "the cracks in our thinking, in order to change how we think and how we change the world".{{cite web|title=Hilary Lawson|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/author/hilary-lawson| work=The Independent| access-date=26 October 2021}}{{cite web| author=Maya Oppenheim|title=HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/howthelightgetsin-2021-music-festival-london-b1915568.html|work=The Independent|date=26 October 2021}} The IAI's first festival, Crunch, focussed on the visual arts and was held in November 2008 in the wake of the financial crash.{{cite web| author=Michael Archer|title=Contemporary art is not ephemeral|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/nov/18/contemporary-art-ephemeral|work=The Guardian|date=18 November 2009}} In May 2009, the IAI held its first philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn in the book town of Hay-on-Wye.{{cite web| author=Charlotte Cripps|title=Ideas festival: Great minds think and drink alike|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ideas-festival-great-minds-think-and-drink-alike-2288454.html|work=The Independent|date=23 October 2011}}{{cite web|title=Introducing the IAI|date=17 January 2018|url=https://iai.tv/about-iai/introducing-the-iai|access-date=10 November 2021}}

The IAI's festival HowTheLightGetsIn is held in Hay-on-Wye in May and in London at Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath, in September.{{cite web |author=Harriet Marsden|title=HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, review: A rare combination of fascination and fun|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/how-the-light-gets-in-festival-review-wales-hay-on-wye-culture-philosophy-politics-a8383761.html|work=The Independent|date=9 June 2018}} Described by Yahoo UK as "a playground for the soul", philosophy and the exchange of ideas are at the heart of the event.{{cite web |author=Flic Everett|title=Back to life: HowTheLightGetsIn Festival returns to London|url=https://uk.style.yahoo.com/how-the-light-gets-in-september-2021-090450473.html|publisher=Yahoo!|date=8 September 2021}} The festival formulates its theme and programme around debates with headline speakers and live talks, in addition to live bands and soloists, comedy, cabaret and DJs.{{cite web |author=Harriet Marsden|title=HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, review: A rare combination of fascination and fun|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/how-the-light-gets-in-festival-review-wales-hay-on-wye-culture-philosophy-politics-a8383761.html|work=The Independent|date=9 June 2018}} Speakers have included Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Liz Truss, Roger Penrose, A.S. Byatt, Paul Krugman, Jess Phillips, Rory Stewart, Daniel Dennett, Peter Singer, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Bianca Jagger, and Slavoj Žižek, along with musicians Brian Eno, Clean Bandit, Laura Marling, and comedians James Acaster and Robin Ince.{{cite web |author=Harriet Marsden|title=HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, review: A rare combination of fascination and fun|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/how-the-light-gets-in-festival-review-wales-hay-on-wye-culture-philosophy-politics-a8383761.html|work=The Independent|date=9 June 2018}}{{cite web| author=Maya Oppenheim|title=HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/howthelightgetsin-2021-music-festival-london-b1915568.html|work=The Independent|date=26 October 2021}}{{cite web |title=Speakers|date=23 May 2017 |url=https://howthelightgetsin.org/hay/ideas-and-culture/speakers|access-date=26 September 2021}}{{cite web| author=Paul Pardi|title=HowTheLightGetsIn Festival with Daniel Dennett and Peter Singer |url=https://www.philosophynews.com/post/2020/09/10/HowTheLightGetsIn-Festival-with-Daniel-Dennett-and-Peter-Singer.aspx|publisher=Philosophy News|date=10 September 2020}}

IAI.tv is an online platform publishing articles, videos and courses. It includes three sources of content: IAI Player, IAI News and IAI Academy.{{cite web |title=IAI.tv|url=https://iai.tv/|access-date=26 September 2021}}

IAI Player is an online channel where the debates and talks curated by the IAI and hosted at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival are released and made available online.{{cite web|title=HowTheLightGetsIn, the world's largest philosophy and music festival, returns with a bang|date=6 October 2021|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/philosophy-music-festival-tickets-london-b1933498.html|publisher=Independent|access-date=27 October 2021}}{{cite web |author=Caleb Forward|title=The Future and Philosophy - HowTheLightGetsIn 2021|url=https://www.philosophy-foundation.org/blog/the-future-and-philosophy-howthelightgetsin-2021|publisher=Philosophy Foundation|date=21 September 2021}} Speakers include Nobel Prize winners Paul Krugman, Gerard 't Hooft{{cite web |title=Paul Krugman|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2008/krugman/facts/|access-date=5 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Prof. dr. Gerard 't Hooft|url=https://www.uu.nl/en/research/prof-dr-gerard-t-hooft|access-date=5 January 2022}} and Roger Penrose, public intellectuals Noam Chomsky, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali and Simon Armitage, and political figures and journalists Owen Jones, Matt Kennard, Helen Lewis, Diane Abbott and Liz Truss.{{cite web |title=Speakers|url=https://iai.tv/home/speakers|access-date=26 September 2021}}{{cite web|author=Paul Pardi|title=IAI on Consciousness, Kahneman, Cottingham, and Coronavirus|url=https://www.philosophynews.com/post/2020/06/13/Cool-Stuff-from-IAI-on-Consciousness-Kahneman-Cottingham-and-Coronavirus.aspx|publisher=Philosophy News|date=13 June 2020}}{{cite web|title=Dr Nick Lane Origin of Life Debate|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/news/2021/mar/dr-nick-lane-origin-life-debate|publisher=University College London|date=12 March 2021}}{{cite web|author=Sam Parker|title=Simon Armitage Leads Debate On Metaphors For The Institute Of Art And Ideas (VIDEO)|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/14/philosophy-debate-metaphors-simon-armitage_n_2470870.html|publisher=Huffington Post|date=14 January 2013}}

IAI News is an online magazine of ideas. It publishes philosophical articles on science, politics, and the arts along with core philosophy themes such as metaphysics and language.{{cite web |title=IAI News|date=21 May 2020|url=https://iai.tv/articles|access-date=26 September 2021}} The IAI website states that the aim of its content is to rescue "philosophy from technical debates about the meaning of words [by] returning them to big ideas and putting them at the centre of culture."{{cite web |title=Introducing the IAI|date=17 January 2018|url=https://iai.tv/about-iai/introducing-the-iai|access-date=26 September 2021}}

Contributors have included Martha Nussbaum, Homi Bhabha, Massimo Pigliucci, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Catherine Hakim, Hew Strachan, Phillip Goff, Huw Davies, and many hundreds of others.{{Cite web|author=Steven Pinker and Homi Bhabha|url=https://iai.tv/articles/does-the-enlightenment-need-defending-auid-1149|title = Does the Enlightenment Need Defending?|date = 10 September 2018}}{{Cite web|author=Martha Nussbaum|url=https://iai.tv/articles/escaping-the-monarchy-of-fear-an-interview-with-martha-nussbaum-auid-1128|title=How To Escape Fear: An Interview With Martha Nussbaum|date=2018-08-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.philipgoffphilosophy.com/populararticles.html|title=Popular Articles|publisher=Philip Goff Philosophy|access-date=27 October 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://iai.tv/articles/issue-archive|title=Issue Archive|date=18 June 2018 |access-date=27 October 2021}}{{Cite web|author=Catherine Hakim|title=Embracing Erotic Capital|url=http://www.catherinehakim.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IAINews-Embracing-erotic-captial2013.pdf|date=18 December 2013}}{{Cite journal|author=Hew Strachan|title=The real reason for leaving Afghanistan: the era of interventionism isn't over |journal=IAI News |date=12 August 2021 |url=https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/the-real-reason-for-leaving-afghanistan(c09fa694-9f17-40fe-9b34-50f9c6435f74).html|publisher=University of St Andrews|access-date=3 November 2021}}{{cite book |last=Jarke |first=Juliane|author-link= |date=2020 |title=The Datafication of Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XjnDwAAQBAJ&dq=Institute+of+art+and+ideas+article+iai.news&pg=PT70|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781000682960}}

IAI Academy is an educational platform of online courses in philosophy, politics, art and science.{{Cite web|url=https://www.openculture.com/2014/10/iai-academy.html|title=IAI Academy Now Offers Free Courses: From "The Meaning of Life" to "A Brief Guide to Everything"|publisher=Open Culture|date=17 October 2014}}

Beginning in September 2016, the IAI has published its weekly podcast, Philosophy for our Times, featuring IAI debates and talks from the HowTheLightGetsIn festival.{{cite web |title=Philosophy For Our Times|url=https://tunein.com/podcasts/Education-Podcasts/Philosophy-For-Our-Times-p921926/|publisher= TuneIn|access-date=27 October 2021}}{{cite web |author= Nick Byrd|title=The Institute of Art and Ideas Podcast: Europe's (Superior) Answer to TED|url=https://byrdnick.com/archives/12643/the-institute-of-art-and-ideas-iai-podcast/|publisher=Nick Byrd| date=18 February 2018}} In 2021 the podcast was ranked as the Best UK Philosophy Podcast by FeedSpot, based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority and freshness.{{cite web |title=Best 15 UK Philosophy Podcasts|date=6 August 2021 |url=https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_philosophy_podcasts/|publisher=Feedspot| access-date=27 October 2021}}

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