CHANGE/DO
- How to run inclusive meetings and make your organisation more accessible - Thandeka Cochrane
- How to build intersectional alliances between movements and activist groups - Lilia Giugni
- How to tackle micro-aggressions in organisations - Simone Phipps
- How to mobilise people during and after the Covid-19 pandemic - Mauro Pinto
SPEAK/WRITE
- Words matter: how to hack mainstream conversations on ‘sustainability and diversity’ - Tiziano Distefano
- How to communicate inclusively - Carmen Ferrara
- How to talk to your racist, sexist, family member during a family gathering - Emily Sharples
- How to achieve social, ecological and gender justice by reshaping public discourse: where to start - Carmen Alvarez Campo
Neutral
Politically
Demystifying
Technology
LEARN/UNDERSTAND
- How to bring ecofeminist concerns into your thinking and organising - Giorgia Tolfo
- Living in a complex world: how to build systems thinking - Tiziano Distefano
- Why technology is not politically neutral (and what you can do about it) - Luca Recano
- Demystifying Machine Learning: looking critically at your dataset - Astrid Klipfel and Camilla Penzo
TEACH/MOBILISE
- How to connect the local and the global in intersectional ecopolitics - Tobias Mueller
- How to contribute to the efforts of making marginalised knowledges (and those who bear these knowledges) more visible - Laura Gutierrez-Gomez
- How to engage with social justice as a scientist - Ankita Anirban
- Using art to ‘decolonise’, ‘de-antroposise’ and mobilise - Sara Lucas Agutoli and Camille Riou
The concept by GEN POL
Think Tank Pop-up, an initiative by GenPol and partners, with the support of the Italian INSTITUTE of Culture in London, aims to bring together and ignite the debate among activists and experts working in the fields of gender, social and ecological justice. We want to contribute to the public discussion at the intersection of these themes by producing meaningful but accessible outputs.
The great challenges of the upcoming decades require us to critically rethink sustainability as a multidisciplinary and multidimensional concept. In particular, the ecological crisis intersects in complex and often poorly understood ways with complex chains of economic, social, racial and gender inequalities. The key to face these issues effectively is to develop and promote an integrated approach.
Think Tank Popup main output takes the form of a cookbook: a collection of “Recipes” which explain practically how to achieve social, ecological and gender justice in four different fields (decide, speak, learn and mobilise). The exercise has brought together experts, practitioners, artists and activists from both the UK and Italy, with an international background and an interest in creating durable links across the two countries and more widely in Europe and in the world.
The idea of the cookbook has been suggested to us by the hacker culture, as well as traditional cooking books. Through it we hope to provide a concrete tool which different categories of stakeholders can use to incorporate social, ecological and gender justice concerns into their activities.
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