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Coleridge Lectures 2015: Melissa Harrison: Reimagining the City

On 2 April 2015, Melissa Harrison will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, Reimagining the City.

Think of ‘nature’ and most of us think of the deep countryside – but the natural world can live side-by-side with us in cities, too. 82% of us now live in urban areas, and in this richly imagined journey through one day in a British city, Melissa Harrison will bring to life a world that most never know is there, and explore the social and ecological benefits of reimagining our relationship with our wild urban neighbours.

Further event details HERE.

Melissa is an author, freelance writer and occasional photographer. In 2015 she will publish two books: her second novel, At Hawthorn Time (April, Bloomsbury) and Rain, part of Little Toller’s acclaimed new series of nature monographs.

Melissa contributes to the weekly Nature Notebook column in The Times, reviews books for the Weekend FT, The Times and Slightly Foxed, and writes about London’s wildlife at Tales of the City.

Melissa’s first novel, Clay(Bloomsbury, 2013), won the Portsmouth First Fiction award, was selected as an amazon Rising Star, and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. She won the John Muir Trust’s Award for Wild Writing in 2010 and was a Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, in January 2014.

Read more about Melissa on her website.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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Coleridge Lectures 2015: Andrew Kelly: Animals ‘in the Fraternity of universal Nature’

On 26 March 2015 Andrew Kelly will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, Animals ‘in the Fraternity of universal Nature’.

The Romantics took great interest in science, the natural world and animals. In his utopian community the Pantisocracy (the all-governing society – where labour would be minimised and time devoted to study, liberal discussions and educating children) Samuel Taylor Coleridge said animals were to be brothers and sisters ‘in the Fraternity of universal Nature’. His poem ‘To a Young Ass’ hailed the animal he had befriended in Jesus College as ‘Brother’. Though mocked at the time for these views, animal rights and animal welfare were debated widely amongst the Romantics and remain controversial issues today. Andrew Kelly looks at the views of the Romantics and current campaigns for animals.

Further event details HERE.

Andrew is director of Bristol Cultural Development Partnership and Bristol Festival of Ideas, and is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England. His projects include Brunel 200, Bristol 800 and the annual Bristol Great Reading Adventure. He is the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, the Story of a Film (1998) and Cinema and the Great War (1997) among 12 other books. In 2014 he directed Bristol 2014, Bristol’s programme marking 100 years since the start of the First World War. It was the largest UK programme commemorating the centenary. Andrew has campaigned on animal welfare and other social and environmental issues for 30 years. He speaks in a personal capacity.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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Coleridge Lectures 2015: Richard Holmes: Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Bristol and Beyond

On 12 March 2015, Richard Holmes will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Bristol and Beyond.

The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in Bristol in 1798 launched the Romantic poetry movement. Richard Holmes, author of the great two-volume biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and also of The Age of Wonder, looks at the life and work of Coleridge in Bristol and the Quantock Hills at this critical moment. What originally inspired the writing of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and what has this great and mysterious poem come to mean to us now? Holmes explores its varied interpretations, the revealing history of its illustrations, and its powerful emergence as a modern eco-fable. The poem speaks urgently to our own time about our duties towards the earth and the animals, and the spiritual – not merely physical – fate that may befall us should we fail in our stewardship, ‘alone on a wide wide sea’.

Further event details HERE.

Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was made an OBE in 1992. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Coleridge: Darker Reflections won the 1999 Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. Read an article by Richard about Coleridge HERE. Read a London Review of Books review of Coleridge: Darker Reflections HERE.

Richard was Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia 2001-2007. His other books include Shelley: The Pursuit, Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, and two studies of Romantic biography and autobiography, Footsteps and Sidetracks. His group biography of Romantic poets and scientists The Age of Wonder won the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2009 in the UK, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction 2010 in the USA.

Jenny Uglow, Guardian, wrote:

As with all Holmes's work, from his early study of Shelley to his penetrating, celebratory life of Coleridge, you feel that these are people he has lived with. He knows them from letters, journals and notebooks as well as published works. …  He has the trick of making us feel we share their experience … But he is interested, most of all, in the dreams that start people on their path and the way they pick up and modify the knowledge passed on by others. … The Age of Wonder gives us a whole set of "newly connected and newly modified ideas", a new model for scientific exploration and poetic expression in the Romantic period. Informative and invigorating, generous and beguiling, it is, indeed, wonderful.

Read the full review HERE.

Richard’s latest book is a highly unconventional history of Romantic ballooning: Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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Coleridge Lectures 2015: Roger Scruton: The Only True Conservationist is a Conservative

On 5 March 2015, Roger Scruton will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, The Only True Conservationist is a Conservative.

The Left makes the running on environmental issues – seeing the threats to the earth being international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. The truth is the only true conservationist and environmentalist is a Conservative. The environment is the most urgent political problem of our age; the problem is that most environmental problems are generated and resolved by ordinary people often ignored by the environmental movement. Conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism; rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, Roger Scruton argues that we must all assume personal responsibility and foster local sovereignty. People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as a home, and to affirm themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics. This is the right path to take to ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.

Further event details HERE.

Roger is a writer and philosopher. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. He has written widely in the press on political and cultural issues.

Read his articles for the Guardian HERE and his Spectator articles HERE. Other articles can be found HERE.

Among many other books Roger is the author of Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet. Read reviews by the Guardian, the New Statesman, Times Higher Education and LSE Review of Books.

Visit Roger’s website HERE.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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Coleridge Lectures 2015: George Monbiot: What a Green Government Could do if it Really Tried

On 25 February 2015, George Monbiot will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, What a Green Government Could do if it Really Tried.

David Cameron promised his government would be the greenest government ever. George Monbiot says he’s failed – and failed badly. There’s clearly a need for radical change. But what could a green government do if it really wanted to be green? George Monbiot looks at what a green government’s programmes and policy could be examining, including among others, food, transport, energy, wildlife, rewilding, nuclear power and climate change and the impact this would have on individuals, communities, cities and the world. He presents the case he would make to parliament, the country, and the international negotiations on climate change.

Further event details HERE.

George studied zoology at Oxford, but his real education began when he travelled to Brazil in his twenties and joined the resistance movement defending the land of indigenous peasants. Since then he has spent his career as a journalist and environmentalist, working with others to defend the natural world he loves.

Visit his website HERE.

George’s columns for the Guardian are syndicated all over the world. Read them HERE.

George is the author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent, Bring on the Apocalypse and Heat, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man’s Land. Among the many prizes he has won is the UN Global 500 award for outstanding environmental achievement, presented to him by Nelson Mandela.

His latest book, Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding, is the story of his efforts to re-engage with nature and discover a new way of living. Philip Hoare, The Telegraph, wrote:

… a passionate polemic, it could not be more rigorously researched, more elegantly delivered, or more timely. We need such big thinking for our own sakes and those of our children.

Read the full review HERE.

Watch George’s Ted Talk For More Wonder, Rewild the World  HERE.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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Luke Jerram’s “ Withdrawn” to set sail to Leigh Woods

Renowned artist Luke Jerram and the National Trust, in partnership with the Forestry Commission England, have announced that landmark art project Withdrawn has been granted planning permission for its installation in Leigh Woods, and revealed an exciting event programme starting on 17th April. 

The project, which will see five fishing boats installed amongst the picturesque backdrop of Leigh Woods in Bristol, will ask audiences to consider the impacts of over-fishing and marine pollution on the future of our planet and eco-system. A series of talks, theatre performances, interactive arts and concerts are planned to take place on the boats throughout their tenure in the woodlands. 

Ruth Gooding, Programme Manager of the National Trust’s Trust New Art Bristol, explains, 

Now that we have planning permission we can move forward and ensure this brilliant project opens as planned in April.  Leigh Woods is a remarkable woodland and we have worked closely with specialists and our partners Forestry Commission England to ensure the project will cause minimal disturbance... We hope the events programme will bring the woodland to life and inspire people of all ages and backgrounds.

The events will kick off with concerts from Bristol Youth Choir on 25th April, performing songs inspired by a sea theme with shanties and sing-along tunes for the audience. Cyclists will be invited to a two-wheeled drive-in movie night on 3rd or 4th June, while families will be invited to cycle with Sustrans to the boats for a picnic and nautical themed storytelling on Saturday 1st August. 

Withdrawn will be a dramatic backdrop for a week of performances of The Tempest, a show staged by the Butterfly Theatre as part of Bristol Shakespeare Festival. This promenade performance will take place from 11th – 17th July with two shows per evening and a matinee at the weekend.

Mayfest will host a series of Nightwalks with Tom Bailey through the woods, discovering sounds, exploring the history of the forest, and visiting the moonlit boats in the dark. The project will also be part of Bristol Walking Festival with The Wonders of Leigh Woods walk, while The Cabot Institute will host a series of talks about the fishing industry and climate change, accompanied by delicious fish suppers cooked by local Michelin Starred Chef Josh Eggleton. 

Luke Jerram, Artist, explains: 

It is great to be collaborating with such exciting organisations to animate the boats and explore ideas connected to our changing seas. Audiences will be able to enjoy Withdrawn as a space for quiet contemplation but many surprising events will be taking place throughout the summer. 

Withdrawn is funded by Arts Council England as part of the Bristol 2015 European Green Capital programme. 

Phil Gibby, Area Director, South West, Arts Council England, said: 

The range of events and activities planned around Withdrawn is terrific and there are lots of opportunities for people to come along and get involved in the debate or just reflect on the haunting installation. Our support for Bristol 2015 means that great art and culture are right at the heart of the programme for European Green Capital, giving us all a new way to think about the issues. 

For more information visit: www.trustnewartbristol.org or www.lukejerram.com, or follow Trust New Art on Facebook or Twitter: @TrustNewArtBris.

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Coleridge Lectures 2015: Anna Coote: Green and Social Justice

On 23 February 2015, Anna Coote will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, Green and Social Justice.

Anna Coote of the New Economics Foundation sets out the case for a new social settlement which recognises that society, environment and economy are intimately linked. She argues that the primary goal of policy should be sustainable social justice, meaning the fair and equitable distribution of social, environmental, economic and political resources between people, places and generations. Any meaningful radical green programme would therefore need to address such issues as how we shift investment and action upstream to prevent harm, instead of coping once harm has occurred; redistributing paid and unpaid time; and valuing the ‘core economy’ which consists of all the unpaid activities and relationships in everyday life, without which the formal economy would grind to a halt. It would also seek to build a fair, sufficient and sustainable social security system; to develop co-production as the standard way of getting things done; and to ‘future-proof’ policies to safeguard the interests of generations that come after us. Anna puts forward a radical green agenda, based on newly published work from NEF, for a new settlement that can meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Further event details HERE.

Anna is Head of Social Policy in the New Economics Foundation (NEF). She is editor of Time on Our Side (NEF, 2013) which explores the case for a shorter working week. Other recent publications for NEF include The Wisdom of Prevention, Cutting It: The Big Society and the New Austerity, and 21 Hours. Read Anna’s blog posts for the NEF HERE.

A leading analyst, writer and advocate in the field of social policy, Anna was responsible for ground-breaking work on health and sustainable development as Commissioner for Health with the UK Sustainable Development Commission (2000-9). She led the Healthcare Commission’s work on engaging patients and the public (2005-8) and was Director of Health Policy at the King’s Fund (1998-2004). Earlier posts include Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) from 1989-1998, Editor and Producer of current affairs television for Diverse Productions (1982-6), and Deputy Editor of the New Statesman (1978-82).

Anna has also written for the Guardian. Read her articles HERE.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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The maps that shaped our world: BBC News Magazine today.

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Coleridge Lectures 2015: Kathleen Jamie: Poetry, the Land and Nature

Image: Eamonn Mccabe

On 17 February 2015, Kathleen Jamie will deliver one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures, Poetry, the Land and Nature.

Romanticism looked at nature and the natural world in new ways and embraced a sense of place. Kathleen Jamie – a nature poet who has also covered Scotland’s independent spirit – asks how human beings can live the right relationship with the natural world. Her poetry and her books of essays, Sightlines and Findings, have been at the centre of the revival of nature writing in recent years. Finding nature in the tiny cracks of daily life, as well as Orkney in midwinter and twenty-first-century flotsam on a shoreline in the Hebrides, Kathleen helps us all renegotiate our relationship with the natural world. She will read from her work, and talk about this relationship.

Further event details HERE.

Kathleen was born in the west of Scotland. Her poetry collections to date include The Overhaul, which won the 2012 Costa Poetry Prize, and The Tree House, which won both the Forward prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. Kathleen also writes non-fiction, including the highly regarded Findings and Sightlines.

A review of The Overhaul by Maria Johnston, Guardian, said:

Jamie’s captivating new collection hauls the reader on a strange, profound journey – the poetic equivalent of deep-sea diving at great pressure – throughout which we find ourselves more than usually alive to how language is as moving, as endlessly transformative, as the world we
 journey through by plane or boat.

Read the full review HERE.

A Sunday Times review of Sightlines said:

A haunting new collection from one of our finest nature writers …. Immensely beguiling. There are piquant descriptions that stop you in your tracks …. but the real power of the writing derives from the steady increment of detail and the honesty of her responses to the natural world.

Read the full review HERE.

Kathleen has written for the Guardian. Read her articles HERE.

Visit her website HERE.

This lecture is part of a new annual series inspired by Coleridge’s radical lectures in Bristol in 1795. The 2015 series is run in association with the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol and Bristol 2015. It is part of The Romantic Poets and Bristol programme, which celebrates the life of Thomas Chatterton, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, Coleridge and others in the city, and Bristol as the place where Romanticism was born with the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads. The programme focuses especially on nature and the emotions, place and the environment, and also looks at Bristol as a city for science, philosophy, ideas and political debate at the time of Coleridge and today. The 2015 theme is Radical Green. Future themes are: Utopias (2016); Revolution (2017) and Peace (2018).

The full list of lectures in the series can be found HERE.

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Copenhagen's pedestrian network 

Festival of the Future City takes place 18-20 November 2015 as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The festival is supported by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Future Cities Catapult, University of the West of England, and Business West. The festival is also part of Bristol Festival of Ideas, run in partnership with the Observer and University of Bristol. Further details will be released in spring 2015.

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Festival of the Future City: East Asia’s massive urban growth

Almost 200 million people in East Asia migrated from rural areas to cities between 2001 and 2010.

According to a new World Bank report, new residents poured into cities at an average of 3 percent per year, while land expansion happened at a 2.4 percent annual rate.

China accounts for 80% of the region’s urban land growth, and contains 12 of the 35 largest megacities, but smaller countries like Laos and Cambodiaare transforming at faster rates.

All countries experienced an increase in GDP with urbanisation.

Further details and Word Bank infographics HERE.

Festival of the Future City takes place 18-20 November 2015 as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The festival is supported by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Future Cities Catapult, University of the West of England, and Business West. The festival is also part of Bristol Festival of Ideas, run in partnership with the Observer and University of Bristol. Further details will be released in spring 2015.

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A New Global Swarm of Weather-Sensing Satellites Robinson Meyer, theatlantic.com

Armed with tiny orbiting sensors, a startup plans to build the world’s largest database of private weather data.

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Festival of the Future City takes place 18-20 November 2015 as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The festival is supported by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Future Cities Catapult, University of the West of England, and Business West. The festival is also part of Bristol Festival of Ideas, run in partnership with the Observer and University of Bristol. Further details will be released in spring 2015.

BRITISH URBANISATION:  City lights by Marc Khachfe, Flickr.

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Festival of the Future City takes place 18-20 November 2015 as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The festival is supported by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Future Cities Catapult, University of the West of England, and Business West. The festival is also part of Bristol Festival of Ideas, run in partnership with the Observer and University of Bristol. Further details will be released in spring 2015.

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Festival of the Future City: London’s Housing Market

The Fourwalls Short Film Project features short films that "showcase the reality of housing in London."

Their ten shortlisted films are now available to watch on YouTube. The winner, London, is featured above.

Festival of the Future City takes place 18-20 November 2015 as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The festival is supported by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Future Cities Catapult, University of the West of England, and Business West. The festival is also part of Bristol Festival of Ideas, run in partnership with the Observer and University of Bristol. 

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Festival of the Future City: Watch the Arctic’s ice disappear

Scientists have noted a large deterioration in the Arctic’s old or "multiyear" ice. Decades ago, the region had a layer of year-round ice as deep as 23 feet; in just the past several years, however, this ice has become "extremely rare," according to scientists at NOAA. To show just how rapidly the ice is melting, they made an animation of frozen conditions from 1987 to 2014 – multiyear ice is depicted in white.

Further details HERE.

Festival of the Future City takes place 18-20 November 2015 as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital. The festival is supported by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council, Future Cities Catapult, University of the West of England, and Business West. The festival is also part of Bristol Festival of Ideas, run in partnership with the Observer and University of Bristol. Further details will be released in spring 2015.

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Judith Rodin: Building Resilient Cities

Preparing for the future means building better cities. New York. Athens. Wenzhou. Boston. Oslo. Dhaka. New Orleans. Nairobi. In recent years, dozens of cities across the globe have been hit by large-scale catastrophes of every kind: natural disaster, geopolitical conflict, food shortages, disease and contagion, terrorist attacks. If you haven’t been directly touched by one of these cataclysms yourself, in our interconnected world you are sure to have been affected in some way. They harm vulnerable individuals, destabilise communities and threaten organisations and even whole societies.

We are at greater risk than ever from city-wide catastrophe, and as the severity and frequency of these disasters increase, we must become better at preparing for, responding to and recovering from them. Be it Haiti’s dependence on humanitarian aid, the rebuilding effort after the Great Fire of Manhattan or the reason why more girls than boys drowned in Japan’s 2011 tsunami, Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation, author of The Resilience Dividend, and world-leader in building resilient cities, brings together vivid stories with practical insights (such as how to disaster-proof a building) and ground-breaking research to help build a radical future in which individuals, companies and entire societies face disaster by creating more dynamic, more resilient cities.

This event is part of Bristol 2015 and the Festival of the Future City. It is run in association with the Cabot Institute, University of Bristol.