PROGRAMME

Value and Trading After the Collapse

Panel: Rupert Read, Luce Goutelle (Unbewitch), Alexandra Geldenhuys (New Dawn Traders)

Friday 22 November 2019, 7PM

Studio 3, SPACE, Dartington Hall

SPEAKERS

Rupert Read is one of the definitive spokespersons on ‘The Collapse’. He is the co-author of This Civilisation in Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire, with Samuel Alexander. The book describes how ‘Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation…. Unless humanity does something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse’. He has been a frequent spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion.

Luce Goutelle is co-founder of Unbewitch Finance Lab, an autonomous laboratory for experimental research that brings together artists, citizens, and activists to question our relationship with global finance and reclaim the economy. Unbewitch creates visual and sound works, participatory workshops, experimental conferences, creative tools, and speculative stories in relation to finance, using the prism of witchcraft.

Alexandra Geldenhuys is co-founder of New Dawn Traders, which builds ethical supply-chains across oceans, using sailing cargo ships. Geldenhuys comments: ‘A sailing ship physically and metaphorically bridges the gap between distant communities and cultures. The Slow Food Sailing Circus not only carries cargo,but has sailors who are also artists, teachers, makers, performers, musicians, scientists, and chefs. At the moment, 90% of what we buy arrives by container ships, which often use the worst type of polluting fuel, and many treat their crews appallingly. The bigger question is how much of what we buy do we actually need?

CHAIRS: Tracey Warr, Alan Boldon, and  Rob La Frenais

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