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Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn on ‘The Bank Job’

When I was recently at the #CTRLshift conference in Wigan, one project that many people were talking about was Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn’s ‘The Bank Job’, currently underway in a former bank in Walthamstow. It had just been featured in The Guardian under the headline ‘The rebel bank,

A report from #CTRLshift2018

It was billed as “an emergency summit for change”, and it was a call that drew around 150 people from across the UK, and even some from further afield. Hosted at The Edge, a community-funded church building in the centre of Wigan just round the corner from the actual Wigan

A dazzlingly delicious taste of the future in Liége

Something really amazing is happening in Liége in Belgium. I was last there 4 years ago, where I gave talks and did meetings in support of Liege en Transition, and to attend a meeting to promote a project they had just launched called ‘Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise’ (‘The Liége Food Belt’

Game Over?

This is the second blog from guest editor Helene Oakley on the theme of “Transition from the edge and in-between”. In October last year, a volcano went off in the conversation around gender and power. You most likely heard it. Catalysed by courageous first person accounts of sexual harassment and

Post Present Future

“I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.” Diane Lane I have been running POST PRESENT FUTURE for almost a decade. It’s a simple

News from the world of Transitionese

Sparking conversations I will regularly bring you “News from the world of Transitionese”, highlighting work being done on translations of resources and support material around the world, followed by a “Word of the month” and by a longer reflection. We hope to spark conversations on the many different ways words

Let’s be Dangerous Together

This is the second in a series of blogs from Kevin Buckland, a Barcelona-based artivist, storyteller, facilitator and organizer who engages art as a tool for enabling change. Jens Volle, EndeGelände, CC On August 2017, thousands of activists from across Europe and the world converged in the Rhineland of Germany