Seminar: The Practices of Sustainability Transitions (CAT, 6-7 September 2012)

[Gavin]

The Practices of Sustainability Transitions
Fifth and final seminar ESRC Sustainability Transitions Seminar Series

http://sustainabilitytransitions.info/

Thursday 6th – Friday 7th September 2012
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Machynlleth, Wales

This two-day seminar begins with an open-space event to feedback on
the preceding seminars in the series. This will be followed by two
presentations on ‘Practices of sustainability transitions’. In the
evening there will be a public debate between proponents of very
different transition strategies and tactics, including those who
propose working with the state, those who view the state as antithetic
to sustainability, and those attempting to operate ‘beneath the
radar’. Day 2 begins with a round-table discussion of practitioners
responses to the seminar series, followed by a presentation and a
plenary session on policy, activism and academia.

Confirmed speakers and panelists include:

• Paul Chatterton (University of Leeds) on LILAC (Low-Impact
Living Affordable Community)
• Molly Scott-Cato (University of Roehampton) on Economic
Transitions
• Alice Cutler (Trapese Collective) on Activism in Transition
• Naresh G. Giangrande (Transition Totness)

The time spent at CAT will also afford seminar participants the
opportunity to take part in a guided tour of ‘Britain's major centre
for environmental inspiration and courses’. Tailored to the themes of
the seminar series, the tour will be conducted by Peter Harper, a
prominent thinker in CAT’s last quarter century at the forefront of
practices of alternative living. There will also be the chance to tour
the innovative Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE)
building with a guide to explain the sustainability of its
architecture (see http://www.cat.org.uk/)

The full programme for the seminar will be online http://sustainabilitytransitions.info/
where participants can also find information on travel and
accommodation options.

To reserve a place please email Kelvin Mason Mas...@cardiff.ac.uk
including any dietary requirements.

We have a very limited number of travel / accommodation bursaries
available for postgraduate / unwaged participants or people without
access to funding for such activity. These will be decided according
to your best fit with the purpose of the workshop/ seminar. To request
a bursary please contact Jenny Pickerill (j.pic...@le.ac.uk)
specifying your status and (briefly) the reasons for your request.
Decisions will be made after 11th June. So please ensure that your
request arrives before that date. We will not be able to consider late
applications."

Organisers: Kelvin Mason (Cardiff University), Lotte Reimer (CAT),
Alex Haxeltine (UAE)