All Our Futures 2 Conference
15/09/2009 to 17/09/2009

The University of Plymouth’s Centre for Sustainable Futures hosts the second All Our Futures Conference this September. This year the focus is on design and the way it can make products, services, communications and processes more resource efficient and sustainable.

All Our Futures 2 offers a exciting balance of presentations and workshops to educate and promote realistic, cost effective and environmentally friendly solutions.

Other Keynote Speakers
• Michelle Adams
• Martin Charter
• Peter Davis
• John Elkington
• Alastair Fuad-Luke
• Marie Harder
• Victoria Hurth
• Bob Johansen
• Beto Lopez
• Sara Parkin
• Sophie Thomas
• David Wheeler

Limited places – to secure your place at the conference register now!

Related website: “http://csf.plymouth.ac.uk/allourfutures/”:http://csf.plymouth.ac.uk/allourfutures/

Promotional aimed at business

The sustainability agenda is no longer an issue just for specialists, but a fundamental part of business enterprise. As economic recovery gets under way sustainable practice needs to be in place. Design leads the way, based on the best forecasting available.

This conference is the key design event for business in the South West in 2009, bringing together world-class designers and business leaders, working to find practical solutions in a time of deep economic uncertainty. read more

Promotional aimed at academics

There is a need for ‘minds capable of creating new possibilities to transform our current ways of thinking and operating’. So says Lord Stern in the foreword to HEFCE’s recent Sustainable Development Action Plan. He has in mind the changes in skills, values and knowledge that are needed in the context of climate change.

This is the challenge for education world-wide at all levels. Education for sustainability is the response, where ideas, innovation and networks are brought together, both in policy-making and practice. In parallel, design for sustainability is developing the technologies needed by business to move ahead in a responsible and sustainable way in a rapidly changing and uncertain social and economic environment.

This conference aims to bring together these communities of practice, to see what learners, teachers, researchers, designers and policy-makers in business and in the public sector can learn from each other, what new interdisciplinary ideas can be generated and what synergies can be achieved.

The conference is for all those involved in education, looking for a stimulating and unusual platform and environment for the dissemination and sharing of ideas and good practice in the wider community.
Promotional aimed at construction

This conference brings together business leaders and academics to look ahead and plan for a sustainable recovery from the current recession and also from the damaging effects of unsustainable business practice. For professionals in the construction industry the conference offers:

• world-class expert presentations on design, planning, collaboration and business leadership
• expert guidance on construction and the law – present and to come
(Chris Hoar – partner at Foot Anstey and expert on construction law)
• advice on education for sustainability through the whole construction workforce
• critical analysis of sustainability in the built environment
• networking and discussion with colleagues and professionals across the construction industry in the South West

If you are in the construction industry in the South West and thinking about how to move forward out of recession towards a planned, sustainable future, this conference is for you.

Wednesday Evening Promotional

We are pleased to announce that we are joining with the ‘Making Futures’ Conference at Plymouth College of Art to visit the Orta Exhibition at the Plymouth Art Centre and then for a relaxing evening on the Barbican.

Lucy Orta’s work examines the social bonds within communities and the relationships between individuals and their environments. The exhibition brings together sculptures, videos, objects, drawings and photographs created by Orta over the last ten years for a diverse range of collaborative projects, performances, installations and social interventions held in cities around the world.

The Exhibition will be open to delegates from both conferences from 6.30 p.m. on the evening of Wednesday 16th September. A free glass of wine will be available to delegates, courtesy of Edmond Davari, proprietor of the Plymouth Arts Centre restaurant, which is one of a group of restaurants on the Barbican: Asia Chic, The Fish Market, Souk, Rocco y Lola, Zucca. The restaurants’ sustainability policy can be read here.