Professor Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre Co-Director, will be part of a keynote debate entitled “Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?” on Sunday. The debate is part of the Battle of Ideas festival at the Royal College of Art in London. “Are we are living in a world where utopian thinking is at best idle…
31 OCTOBER: DEBATE ON ENGINEERING, CAUTION AND UTOPIA
STEPS CONFERENCE 2010: VIDEO
Our conference featured keynote speeches with ideas on sustainability and the sciences; and a roundtable on policy for the 2012 Earth Summit. Keynote speech 1: Prof Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre Melissa explains the STEPS Centre’s “pathways” concept, with illustrations from our work on health, water & sanitation, and food & agriculture. Keynote speech 2: Prof…