ORGANISATION STRATEGY & DESIGN SEMINAR SERIES : ACTIVISM & ORGANISATION : 16.10.2006

The first seminar of the continuing series for this academic year will take place on Monday 16 October at 7pm in A316.

The purpose of the series is to build a coherent, compelling body of knowledge around the emergence of Design Process as a Strategic Tool for Organisation and Conceptual Development; In other words, the movement from Feelings to Action. The series is an open exploration of practice at the intersection of business, culture, community development, education and health.

Each event features a speaker or group presenting projects they are involved in. Questions are taken, and time is spent working in smaller, inter-disciplinary groups, tackling questions raised by the presentation. These are then discussed with the larger group.

The speaker for the seminar on 16 October is Ed Gillespie from Futerra, a sustainability communications company that uses innovative, creative and strategic ways to promote sustainable development, and the seminar topic is: Social/Organisational and Environmental Sustainability through Creative Multimedia.

Background: Ed Gillespie is Creative Director and co-founder of Futerra. In a varied, complementary career Ed has taught in Jamaica for a year, worked for the Survival Natural History Film Unit, as a marine biologist in Australia, New Caledonia and Orkney and was environmental manager for London Transport. Ed has Masters degrees in both Marine Conservation and Sustainable Development. At Futerra he co-writes and produces short provocative films on social and environmental issues, develops multimedia educational materials, and runs training workshops amongst a host of other media related activities.

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