NEW! engaging cogs Event

14 Feb 2007

Actorsworkshop is helping present a new event in Cardiff. Please lend us your support!

Provocative ideas, great conversations, and a free glass of wine…come and join us at the next engaging cogs event.

Transforming the city -

Changing spaces,

changing lives?

February 21st, 7:30 – 9:00pm. The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Cardiff. Register online at www.engagingcogs.org or email info@engagingcogs.org.

We shape our environment around human needs and desires. But do the places we build then mould the way we live?

In 2007, for the first time, over half the people in the world will live in cities. But a city-dweller of 200 years ago would scarcely recognise modern Cardiff. How do we want to live in the 21st Century? How should our cities continue to change, to make possible the lives we want? Or does trying to predict the way humans might respond to the world we make only limit our visions of the future?

Speakers TBC, but including:

James Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. Among his consultancy projects he was asked to help develop a vision of where Cardiff might go over the next decade.