14:00-16:45
Workshop rooms
How can communities come together to set their own priorities to shape better systems? After our panel discussion, we have three brilliant in-depth workshops for you to work with the panel speakers directly along with another inspiring case.
- Owning Our Future
What’s the role of shared ownership and democracy in the transition to a more sustainable, fair economy?
Ted Howard, the instigator of the Evergreen community cooperative model in Cleveland and now leading on local sustainable community-led development in Amsterdam will be joined by Naomi Rubbra, the spark behind the Footwork Trust, working with 10 ultra local community developers in the UK and Sharon Prenderville, that rarest of things, an academic with hands-on experience of working on democratic sustainable transitions.
- Landscape, Belonging and Inspiration.
What’s the role of landscape and place in generating a sense of belonging and inspiration for the future?
Penny Dakin, from the Minderoo Foundation in Australia, will go deeper into their work mobilising community led investment in families and young people: a strategy the foundation calls scaling deep. Penny will be joined by Jim Mitchell from Commonland, which is pursuing radical landscape restoration strategies in seven places from Spain to Western Australia. Jim will talk about Commonland’s four returns: how financial, natural, social returns generate a return on inspiration.
- Turning Resilience into Imagination
How can communities imagine and act to move on from coping well with change imposed upon them to generate investment in the change they want?
Robin Hacke, from the Centre for Community Investment in the US, will go into the details of their model to mobilise communities and investment to transform housing and work. Robin will be joined by the inspirational Immy Kaur, who will take us through the 10 year journey of Civic Square in Birmingham in the UK to become a democratic, community led regeneration initiative, based on community land ownership.