by METIS

https://metisarts.co.uk/

BARBICAN 5-9 September 2018

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/metis-we-know-not-what-we-may-be

Commissioned by Artsadmin, part of the Barbican 2018 Season The Art of Change

Co-created by:

Zoe Svendsen - Direction

Lucy Wray - Associate Direction

Carolyn Downing - Sound

Guy Hoare - Lighting

Chris Kondek - Video

Stefanie Mueller, Anna-Maria Nabirye, Tom Ross Williams, Jess Mabel-Jones, Charlie Folorunsho, Emmanuella Cole, Shon Dale-Jones, Alex Murdoch - Performers

Nicky Childs - Producer

There’s never been greater urgency for change. But what shape could this take and who will be in charge? Join us as we ask if human ingenuity can restore our relationship to each other and the planet.

Following a short talk by a visionary speaker, you’ll be led into the 'factory of the future' – an installation for storytelling, interaction and experimentation that could catapult us towards a transformative future. Working with a host of inspirational experts, among them economists, architects and environmentalists, Zoë Svendsen aims to initiate conversation, challenge our sense of what is possible, and find ways in which we can all take an active part in determining how we live together.

A theatre-maker, dramaturg and Director of METIS, Svendsen develops absorbing, engaging and funny performance projects that highlight contemporary political subjects.

SPEAKERS

Paul Mason is a journalist, filmmaker and author. He will be speaking on the power of collaborative networks for social change.

Peter Newell is an advisor on low carbon economy and a GreenPeace UK board member. He will be speaking on the global politics of transformation to a green future.

Chris Hope is a climate modeller and former advisor to the House of Lords inquiry into the economics of climate change. He will be speaking on how the carbon tax can transform the economy and address climate change.

Barb Jacobson works in women’s, housing and community rights and will be speaking on universal basic income.

Fran Boait is the Executive Director of Positive Money and will be speaking about transforming the economic system through changing how money works.

Andrew Simms is a political economist, campaigner and author of Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity. He will be speaking on the efforts to transition rapidly to a low carbon economy.

Kate Raworth is an economist and author of Doughnut Economics. She will be speaking on how the economy is embedded in, and interdependent with, the social and natural world.

Wanda Wyporska is the Executive Director at The Equality Trust and will be speaking about (in)equality and the redistribution of wealth.

Sue Riddlestone is the co-founder of Bioregional (zero carbon communities BedZED & OneBrighton) and an author of London 2012 Olympic Sustainability Strategy, she will be speaking on how to create low carbon living and its implications.

Charlie Kronick is senior climate advisor at Greenpeace speaking on capital markets.

Richard Murphy is a political economist & tax avoidance campaigner. He will be speaking on how to reform the UK tax system as the primary means to achieve a better, fairer economics.

Frances Coppola is a leading thinker on economics and a regular contributor to Forbes and the Financial Times.She will be speaking on new forms of income.

Kriti Sharma is an artificial intelligence technologist / mobile product inventor. She will be speaking on artificial intelligence and how to avoid replicating human prejudice in designing it.

Anna Coote is a social policy advocate, analyst and writer. She will be speaking on addressing inequality with universal public services.

Dave Wetzel is an activist and land tax expert. He will be speaking on the reform of land ownership and how authorities can use their tax systems to make better use of urban areas.

Dave Boyle - community shares expert and advocate speaking on community ownership

Faiza Shaheen is an economist, writer, activist and Director of CLASS. She will be speaking on restructuring systems to allow full social mobility.

Terry Macalister is a freelance journalist, writer and former Energy Editor at The Guardian particularly focused on the impact of trade and industry on the environment. He will be speaking on the future of energy.

Indy Johar is a consultant on social systems’ change, co-founder of social ventures Impact Hub Westminster and HubLaunchpad Accelerator. He will be speaking on thinking big, beyond the limits of contemporary capitalism.

Carolyn Steel is an architect, lecturer and author of Hungry City. She will be speaking on how to imagine the future city through its relationship with food.

Indra Adnan is a writer, consultant, psycho-social therapist & founder and Director of the Soft Power Network. She will be speaking on the psychology of society and the redistribution of power.

Will McCallum is an activist, author and Head of Oceans at Greenpeace UK. He will be speaking on solutions to the plastic problem.