School's Out! #47 with Adam Greenfield

School’s Out! #47 - Adam Greenfield

Every last Friday of the month the Independent School for the City celebrates the start of the weekend with a public lecture. For this edition we have invited writer and urbanist Adam Greenfield to talk about his latest book "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire" which deals with practices of mutual care and local power and how they can help us to survive the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities. The lecture is followed by a short film, selected by curator and filmmaker Jord Den Hollander and drinks at the bar.

In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish. It is an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighbourhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.

About Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology, design and politics with everyday life. Selected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics, he previously taught in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Urban Design program of the Bartlett, University College London. His books include Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, Urban Computing and Its Discontents, and the bestsellers Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life.

Programme

18:00 Doors open, drinks bites and tunes

19:00 - 20:15 Presentation by Adam Greenfield + Q&A

20:15 - 20:30 Short film, selected by Jord Den Hollander

20:30 - 22:00 Drinks and tunes

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