Indy Johar – What is the extent of the transition we need to make in Sheffield to deal with the crises we face as a city?

Dark Matter Labs designer, architect and founder Indy Johar will be speaking at this year’s Debate Festival about how we are all agents of change and how we can build new systems and ways of being. A rescheduled date has yet to be confirmed, but in the meantime you can join the waiting list for free tickets.

He will be joined by Sophia Parker, Director of the Emerging Futures Program at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and together they will look at some of the economic models that are driving us towards the collapse of Earth systems and explore the many new ways of being that are already emerging.

In February we invited Indy to town to give a talk to members of Voluntary Action Sheffield. In this talk, he laid out the scale of the series of crises we face, both as a city and the wider world, but also explored the ways in which we can move towards a fairer society without crossing planetary boundaries.

This brief description cannot do justice to the breadth and depth of the hour-long talk I heard from Indy, so I’ve posted a full video of it above for you to absorb and reflect on in your own time.

If, like us, you find these ideas fascinating and want to explore them further, join Indy and Sophia at the Debating Festival. We are yet to confirm a rescheduled date, but tickets will be free and you can join the waiting list now.