Wed 2nd - Wed 2nd December 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT, hosted online
The first session in a series of creative exchanges and conversations exploring the environmental impact of money production.
The third season of our online programme, Future Focus, will bring together scholars, artists, economists and other professionals in a creative exchange, conversations and networking around topics related to Money and Environment. The aim of the series is to develop a long-term socio-economic research programme exploring how finance impacts on the environment and how finance could be reimagined to contribute to the environmental and social agenda.
From examining the complex and sometimes unknown ways in which money and environment might be related throughout history, to opening up discussions around issues surrounding tax havens and offshore economies, labour, opaque markets and climate change, we are investigating ideas and questions including whether money and finance can be green or regulated for environmental change, what strategies we can create for ecological good and what knowledge systems we might need and from/with whom.
The first session in the series will include provocations, sharings and discussion exploring money production and environmental impact – from the production of silver coins, human labour, colonial mining and extraction of natural resources to the implications of energy consumption in producing crypto currencies – but also the role of art, activism and alternative narratives. The session will present work by researchers, artists and economists responding to ideas of green economy and investigating digital money and decentralisation.
With:
Cassie Thornton, artist, activist, feminist economist, co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada
Ruth Catlow, artist, researcher, Furtherfield co-Founder and Artistic Director, and director of DECAL, Furtherfield’s Decentralised Arts Lab
Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Philipp Robinson Rössner, Economic Historian and Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
Introduced and facilitated by Ismail Ertürk and Irini Papadimitriou
Future Focus is FutureEverything’s new online space of critical conversations, talks and debates, as well as cross-sector exchange, networking and collaboration.
From panels, performative talks and workshops to roundtable conversations, industry meetings, mentoring and artists’ advice, Future Focus will develop around curated themes and flexible, experimental formats inviting our creative community, partners, collaborators, colleagues, friends and anyone else to join us, connect, share work and explore future collaborations.
The Covid-19 pandemic – apart from devastating communities and putting everything on hold – has highlighted the fragility of our society, environment and living beings, and the urgent need for changing our actions. The aim of this new space is to explore ideas for a kinder, more considerate future world, to offer inspiration, support and feedback, but also enable exciting new links, creative cross-pollination and critical discourse at challenging times.
