Conversations + Research
People’s Republic of Energy: rethinking the possible in energy futures Hannah Knox, Jonathan Atkinson and Britt Jurgensen Chapter in: Haarstad, H., Grandin, J., Kjærås, K. and Johnson, E. (eds.) 2023. Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency. London: UCL Press. https:// doi.org/ 10.14324/111.9781800083288
Community-led Energy Planning (CLEP) is a place-based, community-centred approach to building knowledge, understanding and confidence in lower-income communities to enable them to shape and benefit from the energy transition. Methodology and toolkit developed with Carbon Coop & CLES.
Performance Walking: Hannah Knox, Britt Jurgensen, and Jonathan Atkinson. In H. Knox & G. John (Eds.), Speaking for the Social: A Catalog of Methods (pp. 187–218). Punctum Books. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2x00w0q.10
Podcast mini-series as part of BE-ST Accelerate to zero podcast about citizen-led renovation initiative with host Sara Edmonds.
Presentation at the International Community Land Trust Festival, delivered by Sustainable Housing for Inclusive and Cohesive Cities (SHICC), World Habitat, and the International Center for Community Land Trusts.
Presentation about Homebaked CLT as part of 'Städtebauliches Kolloquium, a series of seminars at Technical University Dortmund about co-productive and collaborative city production. Convener Professor René Tribble. With Jeanne van Heeswijk
The Liverpool City Region Land Commission was launched in September 2020, at the initiative of Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram. Facilitated by CLES, the Commission gathered together thirteen experts on democratic land reform, ranging from activists involved in community land trusts, makerspaces and social enterprise incubation to academics and national planning policy reformers and international campaigners for the commons to “think imaginatively and come back with radical recommendations for how we can make the best use of publicly-owned land to make this the fairest and most socially inclusive city region in the country”.
Podcast by European network organisation for Local Authorities 'Energy Cities'. TEpisode with Britt Jurgensen and Laura Williams from Carbon Co-op: one is a trained theatre practitioner, the other a political activist. Can we empower people more easily by merging art and activism?
Training programme co-created with De Nieuwe Meent (Selçuk Balamir), de Kasko (Joska Ottjes), Refugee Collective We Are Here, Elke Uitentuis, Ethel Baraona Pohl, and Irene Calabuch Mirón as part of 'Trainings for the Not-Yet' (Jeanne van Heeswijk).
Two teams of housing activists, academics and practitioners from Gothenburg, Sweden, and Manchester and Liverpool in the UK, have been taking part in a mutual learning exchange this year. Organised by the University of Sheffield and Mistra Urban Futures.
Presentation of paper at 'The art of infrastructure' panel as part of the 'Art, Materiality and Representation' conference, jointly organised by the Royal Anthropology Institute, the British Mueseum’s Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and the Department of Anthropology at SOAS. This presentation explored the role of performance in bringing infrastructures into being. The presentation brought together three perspectives - that of an anthropologist, a performance artist and an activist.
Creative backcasting document based on research for a Greater Manchester Municipal Energy Company. Co-researched and published with Carbon Coop.
Presentation about Homebaked CLT at the symposium 'Come Back' at 'Konzerthaus Blaibach' about experiments in rural (and small city) development that create opportunities and a sense of identity. Organised by Schnitzer& Architecture Studio and curated by Julia Hinderink.
Presentation at 'Social Making', a Biennial Symposium organised by 'Take a part' that brings together communities and practitioners working in socially engaged ways to share learning. In 2016 the symposium focused on different methods of approaching socially engaged work and its impact on audience and communities.
IN TRANSIT is a cooperation between the Goethe-Instituts in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, England, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands. From May 2015 to March 2016, 18 civil society initiatives which promote a co-productive, user-led form of development in their neighbourhoods, towns and villages went in different combinations on eight different group study visits throughout Northwest Europe to exchange best-practice, strategies and their experiences.
Panel participation at Liverpool Biennial's annual conference 'Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives ', held at the Black-E in Liverpool. The daylong event brought together distinguished thinkers and practitioners from the field of community arts to discuss the legacy of such practices in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art. With Jeanne van Heeswijk and Angela McKay.
Talk as part of TEDx Liverpool 2014: Home & Away. With Sue Humphreys
During this public conference a group of international experts exchanged and explored knowledge on new organisation and economic forms. The program comprised a series of presentations, workshops, deliberations, feedback sessions and discussions that closes with deliberations on the addressed subjects.
