20 Aug 2012
Today we start a series of short posts to preview different aspects of the 2012 Transition Network conference (tickets now on sale!). We’ll be talking to different people who will be presenting workshops and other aspects of the conference, and hearing in their own words their plans and hopes for what they’ll be bringing to the event. Today it’s Shane Hughes of the REconomy Project, who talks about the REconomy Day and about the workshop that he and Fiona Ward will be presenting on the first day of the main conference (just click to play).
He says:
“We want to present these trigger points, these tipping points, that we’re coming close to in terms of the economic evolution that we are going through, the evolving new economy, and we want to get people excited about the fact that there are these oncoming tipping points that if we work towards these new features of a new economy could start to become, in the same light as climate change has runaway unstoppable tipping points, we believe the positive new economy has these runaway tipping points and we want to highlight them and discuss them”.
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15 Aug 2012
A month to go until the Transition Network conference 2012, and it is all getting very exciting. The idea here is to put some flesh on the bones of what looks set to be our most stimulating conference yet. Although things are still being finalised, here’s what we know so far (y0u can book your tickets here and the main page for conference information is here). The event has 5 key elements, you can choose a combination of them:
You can see more about each of those by following the links, but I’m going here to tell you more about what is planned for the main Transition conference (brace yourself).
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19 Jul 2012
As preparations for the 2012 Transition Network conference at Battersea Arts Centre gather pace, I spoke to David Micklem, Artistic Director at BAC, and asked him about how the 2009’s Transition Network conference had impacted on BAC, and his hopes for this year.
So David, Transition Network held its conference in Battersea in 2009. I wonder if you could give us a sense of any sort of lasting impact that that conference had on the organisation?
We hosted the conference in May 2009 and for us it was at a moment where some of the thinking we had been doing around what we might so as an arts organisation that’s interested in ‘the future’ – our mission is to invent the future of theatre, and so everything that we’re doing is really thinking about what a future might be for the Battersea and more broadly for the artists and audiences who use this building. It felt like the Transition Network conference came to Battersea at a critical moment when we were I think struggling to work our way through a huge amount of information about how the planet would be changing, about how our lives might be changing, notions of peak oil.
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