In conversation with Kate Raworth and Indy Johar
- Date
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Fri 25 April 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Venue
- Pennine Lecture Theatre and Online
We face a complex entanglement of crises – economic, social and environmental – and the coming decade will test our collective ability to respond. But by working together, we can chart sustainable social and ecological paths to safeguard human and more-than-human life on this planet.
Activists and academics have offered many visions of the future, from good growth, green growth and deep green to post-growth and degrowth. Each presents a different pathway, yet the deeper question is not just which future we choose, but how we build the shared reasoning necessary to navigate these choices together.
At the heart of this challenge is the ability to hold a meaningful conversation: one that allows us to collectively recognise the futures we face, the ones we desire, and the tensions between them. It is at this intersection – between competing realities and aspirations – that legitimacy is forged, and truly consequential decisions can be made.
How do we cultivate the conditions for such a conversation? And how do we design the frameworks that enable real, shared decision-making in the face of complexity? Join ‘Doughnut Economics’ author Kate Raworth and systems change practitioner Indy Johar as they explore the scale of the challenges we face, their complexity, and how understanding their entanglement is critical to our future.
Doors 6.30pm, start time 7pm
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Kate Raworth is an economist focused on making economics fit for the 21st century’s social and ecological realities. She is the author of the best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, which has been published in over 20 languages. She is also co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.
Indy Johar is focused on the strategic design of new super scale civic assets for transition - specifically at the intersection of financing, contracting and governance for deeply democratic futures.
Indy is co-founder of darkmatterlabs.org and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00 - https://www.architecture00.net, a founding director of open systems lab - https://www.opensystemslab.io (digitising planning), seeded WikiHouse (open source housing) - https://www.wikihouse.cc and Open Desk (open source furniture company) https://www.opendesk.cc.
Indy is a non-executive international Director of the BloxHub https://bloxhub.org (Denmark Copenhagen) - the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization and was 2016-17 Graham Willis Visiting Professorship at Sheffield University. He was also Studio Master at the Architectural Association - 2019-2020, UNDP Innovation Facility Advisory Board Member 2016-20 and RIBA Trustee 2017-20. He has taught & lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School.
Most recently, he was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022.
