Category - Forum
TEDxWarwick: Feeding the City, Feeding the Mind
Click on the image to see the video of my TEDxWarwick talk.
The full text of is below, along with a sample of the few slides I used:
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Birmingham’s population fed from locally-grown produce?
If Birmingham were to source its food locally, how large a catchment area would we need?
Could Herefordshire beef, Cotswold sheep, Vale of Evesham fruit and vegetables and the arable lands of Shropshire and Warwickshire supply us with enough food?
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Organic food, global food security & what the heck should we do?
Feeding the world’s population presents hard intellectual challenges, starkly illustrated in the issues around organic produce.
We need intensify agricultural practice in order to feed the nine or ten billion people that will, barring catastrophe or cataclysm of some kind, be alive in 2050.
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The readiness is all: What it takes to feed a city
The second of the Birmingham Scenarios Reports, The readiness is all: What it takes to feed a city is published today.
Earlier drafts were commented on by the UK’s Global Food Security Champion, Professor Tim Benton and several New Optimists scientists: Professor Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Dr Rosemary Collier, Professor Laura Green, Dr Rob Lillywhite and Professor David Pink — and we’re very grateful to them for their really helpful contributions.
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TNO Forum latest update published
There’s been some great stuff happening over the last couple of months, all reported in the January Forum update.
The image here is a montage of stills created from the filming of the 1st December workshop at Birmingham Leadership Foundation.
This was a thrilling beginning to create “narrativium” to populate the scenarios. We’re now writing an Arts Council bid to continue this work.
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TNO Response to the Birmingham Development Plan 2031
We’ve responded today to the draft Birmingham Development Plan 2031 — the deadline is Monday (14th January), and published a copy of it here.
The final version of the Development Plan is a hugely influential document, setting out the strategic objectives for planning permissions in the city over the next 25 years. Sure, revised every five years, but nonetheless hugely influential.
If you make a submission to this draft Plan 2031, the City Council has to respond.
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Narrativium for the Birmingham 2050 scenarios
With the wealth of info from all the Forum’s 2012 activities, we’ve created this “54-matrix” to generate ‘narrativium, multi-media stories of possible food futures for Birmingham 2050.
This 54-matrix shows glimpses of possible futures — and here’s how to ‘read’ it:
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“It’s 2050 in Birmingham. Are we happy and well?” #TNOfood
Creating Stories From the Future: Food Scenarios for Birmingham 2050
A dozen participants in the Creating Stories From the Future workshop at Birmingham Leadership Foundation introduce themselves to each other in small groups – but introducing themselves to each other as their 2050 self. Fast-forwarding 38 years, they’re talking about what their future self is doing and what they’re eating.
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#TNOfood: Creating stories from the future: food futures for Birmingham 2050
There will be 20+ young citizens, the next generation of decision-makers tomorrow at the Birmingham Leadesrhip Foundation. They’re generating multimedia stories from the future — if you want to join in, there’s still time for a few more to register here.
It will be huge fun. Important too. And this is the plan for the day:
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What it takes to feed Birmingham
Here is my presentation on what it takes to feed Birmingham, a city of 1M people: