Infrastructure & Design Archives

Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate

We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation’s leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, hosted by Opus.

This is an unflinching conversation, but it’s absolutely at the cutting edge of imagineering: this lays out where we’re at and what we need to do, but it also gives us roadmaps to get there: It’s genuinely Thrutopian, not only in the ideas as laid out, but the emotional literacy of the approach to the wicked problems of our time.

Now we have to make it happen.

Living Well in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community

How do we offer secure, safe, dry, affordable homes to all the people who want them while not breaching our planetary boundaries more than we have already?

Net Zero Cities with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs

Cities: most of us live in them and most of them are geared around the old values of the last century. But what if our core question was: what does it take to have pride in the place I live? How can we completely rethink the way cities act and are shaped to put a flourishing future at the heart of all they do? Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs lays out the visions of Net Zero Cities that goes way beyond just the carbon.

The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt

We’re in late stage capitalism, surrounded by interconnected systems that are crumbling under our feet. IF we’re going to birth something new, we need concrete, real-world tools: actual practical bridges that will work *now* to bridge from the old to the new. ‘Resilience Strategist’ Michael Haupt is building these tools and shares them with us.

Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero

Today we’re blowing open a route towards energy security, reduced carbon footprint and saving money – all in the way we make, distribute and use power. If each of us could minimise our own power use, we’d be a step on the way to reducing our overall carbon footprint: more, we’d be changing the ways we think of ourselves as separate from the web of life.

River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

Emily unveils the bold concept of life-enabling economics and the radical aspiration of establishing bioregional banks — a system where money is no longer a mere transactional tool but a means to foster a thriving web of life. From the Findhorn watershed initiative to the Sheffield River Don project, Emily details practical steps towards making these ideas a reality, including the creation of relationship registers and multivalent currencies like ‘river coins’.

The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux

If we’re to survive the looming tipping points, we have to bring regenerative thinking together with material reality – so what do the cities of the future look like and how do they work?

Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) – Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement

We are so used to moving around. How will we manage our personal transport when our fossil fuel addiction ends? One company is addressing personal transportation AND creating a genuinely transformative model for a whole different way of doing Business.

Infrastructure & Design

Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate

Living Well in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community

Net Zero Cities with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs

The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt

Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero

River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux

Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) – Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement

Bonus – Reality Check: Less Quantity, More Quality in a Future that will Work, part 4 with Simon Michaux

Lifeboats and Volcanoes: part 3 of our series with Simon Michaux

Drawing Humanity out of the Cave with Dr Simon Michaux

Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution