Medicine show

5 March 2009

What do you do when you reach burnout, realising your work-life balance is way off-kilter? If you're photographer Hege Sæbjørnsen, you rethink, start working with the Samaritans, take yourself off to Japan and read Oliver James' book Affluenza about the 'painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more'. Then, inspired by global social impact design festivals, you organise a new exhibition in collaboration ...

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