by kultur.work | Oct 11, 2022
On 20 September 2022, FDSD partnered with the Institute for Government and the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge to hold a workshop at IfG on Building a more effective and participatory government—to improve policy-making and delivery. Participants from...
by kultur.work | Apr 23, 2021
On May 20th 2021 FDSD held a launch event for a new book by Prof Graham Smith, Chair of FDSD and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. In Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? Graham asks why democracies repeatedly...
by kultur.work | Oct 14, 2020
How can we nurture visions of the good life that preserve nature and protect the interests of future generations? Can new institutions help us to re-invigorate democracy? Can creativity inspire us to conserve what we love? How can we become the ‘good ancestors’ we...
by kultur.work | Jan 31, 2020
On February 12th, FDSD will be co-hosting a reception in the House of Lords to celebrate the Today for Tomorrow campaign for a Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill for the UK. The Bill, modelled on the earlier Welsh legislation, was introduced as a private...
by kultur.work | Jan 31, 2020
On February 12th, FDSD co-hosted a reception in the House of Lords to celebrate the Today for Tomorrow campaign for a Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill for the UK. The Bill, modelled on the earlier Welsh legislation, was introduced as a private member’s bill...
by kultur.work | May 30, 2019
Evening event with the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid on 11 June 2019, 6–7.30pm at Bates Wells, London Jigme Thinley, former Prime Minister of Bhutan, is the special guest of the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid and The Foundation for Democracy and...
by kultur.work | Apr 4, 2019
Together with the FDSD, the School of International Futures (an organisation that helps policy-makers, business leaders and communities make strategic choices, manage risk and become future-ready) is hosting a Round Table on Intergenerational Fairness taking place on...
by kultur.work | Oct 3, 2018
We are delighted to invite you to a joint networking event with the PSA Specialist Group Environmental Politics, GreenHouse, Policy Connect and FDSD on 26 October 2018 in London. Designed as a space for policymakers, academics and environmental NGOs to discuss...
by kultur.work | Apr 24, 2018
Tuesday 8 May, 9-10.30am, Landing Forty Two at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London From the Brexit vote and the shock election result last year to the housing crisis and Britain’s painful pay squeeze – the issue of intergenerational fairness has hit centre...
by kultur.work | Apr 5, 2018
Where there are tensions between short-term gains and long-term security, the interests of people alive today almost always triumph over those alive in the future. But they don’t have to. This workshop will explore the options for overcoming the short-termism of...
by kultur.work | Feb 26, 2018
The FDSD and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries are delighted to invite you to a joint evening event on 19 April 2018 in London. Bringing together experts from the policymaking community with academics and those from the actuarial profession and elsewhere...
by kultur.work | Oct 27, 2017
The advent of the Anthropocene, the scientific recognition of the remarkably stable state of the Earth system during the Holocene Inter-glacial, the rising evidence of global risks of crossing Earth tipping points and the signs of a gradual decline in Earth...
by kultur.work | Sep 21, 2017
This Autumn, CUSP and the APPG on Limits to Growth will be hosting a debate to mark the 40th Anniversary of Fred Hirsch’s ‘The Social Limits to Growth’. In 1977 Fred Hirsch’s acclaimed book made the case that in addition to the ecological limits to economic expansion...
by kultur.work | Jun 13, 2017
Researchers at the PSA Specialist Group Environmental Politics inviting papers for a research workshop in autumn this year, exploring the prospects, barriers, and new opportunities of climate governance. The politics around governing global climate change are...
by kultur.work | May 31, 2017
In times of climate change, overconsumption, and ecological collapse, we must re-think the meaning of prosperity: What is needed are new visions of environmentally sustainable, yet still flourishing societies. This research workshop considers the political foundations...
by kultur.work | Mar 20, 2017
Ecosystems and species are alive. Yet current law treats them as objects, property and resources. This has wide-reaching consequences that are driving the ongoing destruction of the biosphere. Nature’s rights are a solution, many argue, bringing fundamental and...
by kultur.work | Feb 16, 2017
March 22nd 2017 is World Water Day. 400 international thought leaders will meet to launch WATERSHED – “a global conversation that will help shift how the world values and understands its single most precious resource: water”. The event which includes...
by kultur.work | Feb 16, 2017
Government decision making is often short term, failing to account for the impact on future generations. In policy areas such as climate change, social care, infrastructure and pensions, long-term considerations are often overlooked as short-term political...
by kultur.work | Feb 6, 2017
How can people identify more closely with the economy? How can they improve their understanding of the economy? How can they be more empowered to influence and change it? These are the leading questions for the recent ‘DIY Economics’ project. The RSA and...
by kultur.work | Feb 6, 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the worlds ‘to do’ list for the next 13 years. Each of the Global Goals is extraordinarily important, and taken together, present the education sector with a potent agenda of unprecedented scope and significance. The 2017...
