forwarding this from Jonathan Ward,
it was the name Dougald Hine which particularly caught my eye as one of the
speakers!
see some of you (London-based folk?) at the 11 May event perhaps?
mark
----------
-----Original Message-----
From: MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment & Sustainability Network
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of SCIBE
Sent: 14 April 2011 16:32
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Scarcity Exchanges: Event Series May/June 2011
Apologies for cross-posting.
That resources are diminishing is a commonplace, but scarcity is about much
more than the destruction of our natural resource base: it is a socially and
economically constructed condition that affects us all, and will
increasingly do so. If the 2000s was the decade of false abundance, then the
2010s will likely be defined through scarcity. Scarcity Exchanges will open
up the discussion as to what scarcity might mean, and its social, economic,
and environmental implications. The series of exchanges brings together some
extraordinary speakers around a single, and very pressing, issue.
11 May 2011: Economies of Scarcity
Dougald Hine and Andrew Simms
http://scarcityexchanges01.eventbrite.com/
Dougald Hine is a public thinker and social activator. Co-Founder of the
School of Everything and Space Makers Agency, Dougald is now involved in a
series of extraordinary initiatives around the role of the public
intellectual and new forms of universities. Andrew Simms is a Fellow of the
New Economics Foundation, and one of Britainšs leading economists looking at
issues of the environment and social justice. He co-founded
onehundredmonths.org and the Green New Deal, and is a prolific writer and
broadcaster.
18 May 2011: Cities of Scarcity
Alfredo Brillembourg and David Satterthwaite
http://scarcityexchanges02.eventbrite.com/
Alfredo Brillembourg is founder of the highly influential Urban-Think Tank
(U-TT), co-editor of the widely-cited book Informal City: Caracas Case,
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich, and, together with
Hubert Klumpner, recipient of the 2010 Ralph Erskine Award for innovation in
architecture and urban design. David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and editor of
Environment and Urbanization. He has been contributing to the work of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on urban adaptation since 1998 and
has written or edited various books on urban issues.
25 May 2011: Scarcity and Consumption
Ed van Hinte and Steve Broome
http://scarcityexchanges03.eventbrite.com/
Ed van Hinte is founder and chair of the pioneering Lightness Studios, a
grouping of designers and thinkers who research and practice in the field of
lightweight structures and products. He is author of numerous books
including Lightness. Steve Broome is Director of Research at the RSA, having
previously worked on a London New Deal for Communities programme, where he
led evaluation and strategy, community safety and community development
programmes. He has led the RSAšs Connected Communities programme.
1 June 2011: Concepts of Scarcity
Iain Boal and Lyla Mehta
http://scarcityexchanges04.eventbrite.com/
Iain Boal is a social historian and co-founder of the Retort collective, an
association of radical writers, artisans, and artists in the San Francisco
Bay Area. He has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of
California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz. He is presently Research Fellow of the
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. Lyla Mehta is a
Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of
Sussex and an Adjunct Professor at Noragric, Norwegian University of Life
Sciences. She is a sociologist and her work focuses on the politics of
scarcity, water and sanitation, gender, forced displacement and resistance,
rights and access to resources and the politics of environment/ development
and sustainability. Several of her publications have been concerned with
scarcity including the recently edited work The Limits to Scarcity:
Contesting the Politics of Allocation.'
13 June 2011: Fabricating Scarcities
Saskia Sassen
http://scarcityexchanges05.eventbrite.com/
Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The
Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her recent books are
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton
2008) and Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). Her books are translated
into twenty-one languages. She contributes regularly to opendemocracy.net
and HuffingtonPost.com
Tickets are free but please register on Eventbrite
(http://scibe.eventbrite.com). For further details see www.scibe.eu
All talks start at 6.30pm at University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus,
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Scarcity Exchanges are part of wider research project, Scarcity and
Creativity in the Built Environment, led by Jeremy Till at the University of
Westminster, with partners at the Oslo School of Architecture and TU Vienna.
The project is funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area).
For details of the project and Scarcity Exchanges see www.scibe.eu
|
