Bringing solar power to the people, but coming from different directions - bottom-up and top-down
"We Know Not What We May Be": A/UK at the Barbican's arts-meets-politics event
"The mission is to remind people what they have in them already": Common Wealth are making movements from theatre
When music itself becomes a kind of politics - more from Georgia, Ireland & Germany
If robots and A.I. are replacing human jobs outright, should we tax them when they do?
The Belfast Friendship Club: an open space that strikes conversations between migrants and locals
It costs you £11K to become an MP - & then there's the stress, divorce, alcoholism... No wonder politics is broken
EVENT SUGGESTIONS FOR THE COMING WEEKS
Poetry, Politics and Psychotherapy conference@Friends House London Sat 15 Sep, 10-17 This conference is for psychotherapists, counsellors, art therapists, trainees and anyone interested in how psychotherapy influences and is influenced by politics and the imagination. The conference both celebrates 30 years of Re-Vision and looks outwards and forwards. At this point in the history of both our profession and the planet, it is clear that other, newer ways of looking at integrative practice are needed – just as ‘the personal is political’ was a way of seeing individual issues within the context of a wider political field, so we now need to see that ‘the personal is the planetary’ and work to develop an integrative approach to suffering, to speaking to the soul of the world at this time of crisis. With keynote speakers: Jay Griffiths, Lemn Sissay and Marcia Willis Stewart. More here.
Choosing To Be Smart: algorithms, AI, and avoiding the inevitability of unequal futures@The London School of Economics and Political Science Thu 20 Sep, 18.30-20 Barry Lynn, Seda Gürses, and Seeta Peña Gangadharan debate what choices people and institutions have—and should have to make—in the design, diffusion, and disruption of automated technologies. Since the early 2000s, acquisitions by Microsoft, Google, Intel, and other big tech companies in AI and machine learning have been rapidly growing. As investments continue apace, and algorithms and artificial intelligence become integrated into our daily lives, public debate regularly fixates upon whether new, automated technologies can be used for good or bad. But as anxieties grow, what choices can we effectively make about our so-called intelligent futures? How do we make these choices? Who gets to choose, and at what point in the diffusion of automated technologies? This panel unpacks asymmetries in data-driven markets, the engineering of consent in optimization models used in data-driven technologies, and the politics of refusal in the context of automated systems. More here.
Food Talks 2018@Impact Hub King's Cross
Thu 20 Sep, 18.30-20.45 At Food Talks events, we will hear from expert speakers and attendees alike on the topic of the night - How to make food & drink that tastes good and does good. We'll start with a discussion of how to make and cook delicious food that also has a positive impact on others and the environment. We’ll look at food and drink makers who are making a difference and ask what we can learn from them? And we’ll hear from speakers who are using food to help build others a better future. The discussion will be followed by a delicious and free buffet supplied by co-sponsors Organico and Think.Eat.Drink. Food Talks series is brought to you by Impact Hub King's Cross in partnership with Food Ethics Council, Organico, Think.Eat.Drink and London Food Link, part of Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming. The idea of the series is to stimulate debate about the issues that surround the world of food and to explore solutions to those challenges.
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