Above image by Shannon Welles
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Thrive took place from 4-5 March 2023. You can find out more about the Symposium below. For upcoming festivals and other events. click here.
WHEN:
Saturday 4 March 2023: Earth Talk, 2.30-4pm
Sunday 5 March 2023: A range of individual talks, presentations & workshops 10am – 3pm
ORGANISED BY:
Schumacher College & Dartington Arts School postgraduate students
About this event
Small is Beautiful was a student-led symposium celebrating and reconsidering the influential work of E. F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful, through experiential and embodied activities, group discussions and audience participation.
Fifty years ago, E. F. Schumacher published Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. This highly influential book inspired many, and Schumacher College bears the author’s name. This student-led symposium acknowledged the anniversary and legacy of the book and continued the conversation in today’s context with an eye to possible futures.
Participants were able to join the then-current cohort of Dartington postgraduate students as they presented their learnings, ideas and engage participants with the theme of “imagining regenerative futures”, the change they are seeking to help bring about.
The sessions enabled students to interact and develop their ideas with external audiences, through experiential and embodied activities, group discussions and audience participation.
event programme: how it works
We assembled a programme of events that you participants could pick and choose from as they wished.
Saturday 4 march
Join Satish Kumar, Torange Khonsari, Imandeep Kaur and Matthew Brown as they take part in a panel discussion, chaired by Cassie Robinson, exploring fresh perspectives on regenerative futures.
2.30-4.30pm, Great Hall
sunday 5 march: Morning sessions (10am-1pm)
Interactive performance: Cartographic Echos – work in progress – Multi temporal journeys of living beings, cultures in relation to colonial history, emotions, and homing a place.
Project presentation on how to build a cool, carbon negative, Eco-House.
Collaborative workshop: An Exploration of Children’s Stories and their Ecological, Political, and Radical Imaginative Potentials.
Enchantment – We become what we practice. Tune in to the gifts of our awareness (We’ll be indoors and outdoors, please bring an object you associated with enchantment).
In-person interview with Guy & Geetie Singh-Watson (Riverford Farm / Bull Inn) about regenerative food systems and the Future of Hospitality.
Performance of a character-in-development: An Audience with Our Theydy Atwen of Bourdour.
With Martha Benedict, Studio 3, 11:30am-12pm
Presentation on the work of the Green House Think Tank and an introduction to their most recent publications on Rethinking Energy Demand.
Interactive workshop on dispelling negative stigmas of aging.
Lunch – 1-2pm
Please bring your own lunch, or take advantage of one of the fabulous eateries on the estate (find out more here).
Film Screening: The Jewel in the Crown, Six Months Journey of the Growers at Schumacher College by Miyuki Tokoi.
Conversation and reflections with Miyuki Tokoi and Mika Ohsaki to follow the film.
Studio One, 2pm-3:30pm
Conversation with Rupert Read, Green Party campaigner and a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. Our More Local Future: Community Climate Action, Transformative Adaptation, and the Rise of the New #ModerateFlank.
Join Stephan Harding in sharing the Love of Gaia plus Q&A, which will be held outside – we will meet at the Old Postern before walking into the woods.