SYSTEM RELOAD LONDON programme!
House of St Barnabas 1 Greek St Soho Square W1D 4NQ London UKWednesday 17th September 19.00-22.00
Launch party!
Barbora Patkova and MagnificentRevolution - music
performance - UK
Pedal Powered Music!
Magnificent Revolution take participation to another level. Want to party? Then make it happen! Their pedal powered sound system assures that for the party to go on, bums must be on saddles. Audience generates electricity by bicycles to power bands, DJs and all their equipment. Magnificent Revolution are bringing their pedal power systems to the opening party of System Reload. So, if you don't want to upset the DJ, just keep pedaling. Wednesday evening 17.9 House of St Barnabas
Swamp Collective from Aotearoa.re-valuing abject t-shirts.
Shay Launder and Martin King, from Swamp Collective, help you re-value your abject, torn, rubbish, aesthetically challenged and broken old t-shirts. Bring a t-shirt to re-work and re-invigorate with printing and patching.
Wednesday 17.9 House of St Barnabas
Thursday 18th September 10.00-18.00
Damien Melotte, Eco-emotional design, Australia
What is our intuitive connection to the natural environment and can a greater understanding of it provide an impetus for a good, sustainable and regenerative living solutions. A series of thought provoking slides, questions and participatory tasks. Australian indigenous hot Lemon Myrtle leaf tea provided free to start the day off!
Thursday 18.9 10.00-10.30 at the House of St Barnabas
Lili Larratea, Play Rethink - Rethink Games - UK
An eco-creative, eco-design game to help you think laterally and outside the box.
Thursday 18.9 10.45-11.15 at the House of St Barnabas
Flora Bowden and Clare Brass, HiRise Gardens - SEED - UK
This workshop explores the problems and issues surrounding homelessness and the barriers to changing them.
Thursday 18.9 11.30-12.30 at the House of St Barnabas
Niels Peter Flint - EXDL - France/UK/India and Oleg Koefoed - The Agency/Gravitations - Denmark
COMMITMENTS - THE SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE - journeys and expeditions to explore new dimensions in life, the theatre of life. New, often very radical, and yes very different ways are needed in order to come up with real profound and beautiful solutions to the challenges humans are facing in tomorrow's world. In this workshop, Niels Peter Flint(Initiator of O2) from Experience Design Lab (EXDL) and Oleg Koefoed from Gravitations will present you with 3 paths into a series of journeys of rediscovery, moving from the North and West, to the South and East, where you re-combine art, design and technology, or concepts, wisdom, and philosophy, integrating new and very radical dimensions of sustainable thinking and actual doing.
Thursday 18.9 13.30-14.30 at the House of St Barnabas
Barbora and Magnificent Revolution, Bike Power - UK
Want to make your own emissions-free electricity, independent of fossil fuels and expensive solar arrays and wind turbines? Discover how to use your own bike as part of a small power station, capable of powering computer, stereo, TV and other small household appliances. This method makes a great use of your bike when you're not riding it around town. Brief look into assembly and use of bike-powered generators will be covered. The workshop will be bike-powered. Basic DIY skills would be an advantage but are not necessary.
Thursday 18.9 15.00-16.00 at the House of St Barnabas
Alison Coward, Taking it Forward - Bracket - UK
Taking It Forward is an interactive workshop which will gather and build on the knowledge and experiences of the attendees to develop a toolkit for collaborative working for sustainable designers, including:
- Main elements of collaboration
- How to ensure effective collaborative working
- Things to look out for and how to deal with difficulties
Attendees will use the toolkit to develop an action plan for the collaborative ideas generated during System Reload. After the session, the toolkit will be made available online to all attendees (and the wider sector) for ongoing development, and participants will keep us updated on the progress of their projects.
Thursday 19.9 16.30-17.45 at the House of St Barnabas
Friday 19th September 10.00-17.00
Cindy Kohtala, Design Futures Wheels and Ecoinnovation - Finland
An introduction to a tool adapted from foresight methodology that is useful in impact assessment, systems thinking and scenario building.
Friday 19.9 10.00-11.00 at the House of St Barnabas
Ian Crawford, Designing Micro and Macro Sustainable Behavioural Change - UK
During this workshop you will be brainstorming the story of a "normal"day in a future "sustainable" London. The aim is to be completely free of today's constraints to examine how we want to live and why before figuring out how we plan to get there.
Friday 19.9 11.30-12.30 at the House of St Barnabas
Aleksi Neuvonen, Roope Mokka, Counting Backwards, Demos Helsinki - Finland
Making tangible steps towards zero carbon lifestyle goals
Friday 19.9 13.00-14.00 at the House of St Barnabas
Fatina Saikaly, Empowering Micro-enterprises, CoCreando - Italy
This workshop will explore the empowerment of micro-enterprises and industry clusters in developing countries, the focus on creating multi-actor initiatives and networks of relationships.
Friday 19.9 14.30-15.30 at the House of St Barnabas
Feature Movie - Rousseau's Garden A nature/culture documentary directed by Roope Ahola Friday 16:00 - 17:00
RE-TOOLING WORKSHOPS FOR PROFESSIONALS:
"Storytelling for Designers" by Kelly Davis
Thursday and Friday 18-19 September 10.00 - 14.00
This workshop will strengthen your understanding of what the ingredients of a story are. What makes an entertaining story and where and how stories fail and learn how these elements can be applied to design. During the workshop, several aspects of storytelling will be covered: character, dialogue, plot, setting, theme, story structure, scene design, conflict, etc.
Registration and payment in advance BY 16 SEPT to:
Kelly Davis: thescreendreamer [at] gmail.com
Fees:
£120 for companies/employees
£100 for private people/non-profits
Min 10 participants, max 15 participants
"The Business of Social Design" by Flora Bowden and Clare Brass, SEED Friday 19 September 14.00 - 17.00
How can designers earn a living from solving social and environmental problems? Two designers with long experience in social design guide you in exploring the design opportunities to be found in social and environmental issues, and how they can be made financially sustainable.
Booking fee of £10 in advance BY 16 SEPT to House of St. Barnabas:
Contact Clare Brass and Flora Bowden: info [at] seedfoundation.org.uk
Final payment on the day according to your ability and discretion; suggested fees are:
Students / concessions £10
Private individuals £40
Businesses £80
Minimum 12 participants, max 24 participants
www.seedfoundation.org.uk
Closing party! Travel to The HUB Kings Cross!
34B York way, Islington, N1 9AB
Saturday 20.9 17.00-23.00
Servane Mouazan, Insights Lab - OGUNTE - UK
In this Insights Lab, you will generate new thinking for yourselves, in a specific, succinct and generous way, using an interactive system that makes you think not only through your environment, nature, language, but also through your instincts, senses and human connections.
From this rhythmic and collaborative session, run like a world cafe, you will get practical and creative ways to move on from existing personal or design dilemmas and explore abundant ways of generating ideas. You will also be able to transfer the insights recipe to friends and peers, and be in a good mood for the week-end!
Saturday 20.9 18.00-19.30 at the HUB - Closing party!
System Reload team, "Storytelling"
Let's gather around the tribal campfire and tell our stories, share our experiences of System Reload London and positive change.
Saturday 20.9 20.00-21.00 at the HUB Kings Cross - Closing party!
System Reload team and the HUB, "Lets get serious, Susan!Speed Networking!
Five minutes to speak your sustainability MANA/MANA/MOJO to five others!
Saturday 20.9 21.00-22.00 at the HUB Kings Cross - Closing
party!
Please note that the programme is subject to change.
System Reload Facebook Group
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System Reload - Participants Theme Guide
The Patterns of Coalescability! Creative story telling - prompts!
The Patterns of Coalescability can be used to create a new story and thus new language for creating collaborative change and regeneration of place and self. Many of our problems today are due to the narrow focus (reductionist approach) of our work energy with a lack of care for the wider aspects (abundant possibilities) of our actions.
Nature and natural complex systems are multifaceted, and are constantly interacting, responding and evolving to meet demands placed on the whole system. The very ability that humans have to act outside the natural system has enabled us to systematically destroy it. But, we may have a built in flight manual for ‘SpaceShip Earth’ -a guide for the most complex problems…Our instinct for goodwill and love maybe the shared DNA for humanity that can transcend our constructed differences and provide the blueprints needed to co-create a new way to live.
The Patterns of Coalescability explore five interrelated patterns of life and are intended to act as a guide to promote multidisciplinary and multidimensional lines of thought to explore underutilised modes of work; passion, creativity and intuition. The Patterns of Coalescabilities 5 interactive petals can be combined, over-layered, integrated or placed into multi dimensional contexts to explore authentic collaborations, evolutions and solutions to real needs.
1. Life Patterns
2. Creative Patterns
3. Natural Patterns
4. Behavioural Patterns
3. Built Patterns
What is your story?
What is your special understanding of life that sometimes makes you smile?
Does this smile make you have a better day?
What is empathy? Is it a way of getting a hug? Is it an eco design tool?
Patterns of Coalescability by Damien Melotte is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.systemreload.org.
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