From a storytelling bus to a research caravan

Future My Love – The Venus Project Taxi from Sonja Henrici on Vimeo.

When I was working at @demos, we proposed that hairdressers should be brought in to advise policy. It was a classic @demos proposal – a blend of human-centred research and savvy buzzword generator. The elder statesman of think tanks, @thersaorg also looked to another touchpoint many of us share – the taxi driver – to help them change their behaviours when it came to fuel consumption as a way of saving money.

At our Transeuropa Festival, we put on a storytelling bus between Brixton Village and Brick Lane as part of our treasure hunt, so that people could see the environments change before their eyes as they discovered the hidden stories of the neighbourhoods we passed through.

With our work on Transnational Dialogues, we held a research caravan to create conversations between artists from different cultures between Europe and China.

Now, @futuremylove is showing a documentary where a taxi driver takes people around the city talking about why we might need a resource-based economy and what that might look like. Taxi drivers are all meant to have the Knowledge, so why not make it include social and economical issues?

This year for our festival in London (12th-20th October), we’re organising an urban game by foot …and by bike which will be a different way of rediscovering the city!

In the meantime, click on one of the tabs to get involved!

Now, @futuremylove is showing a documentary where a taxi driver takes people around the city talking about why we might need a resource-based economy and what that might look like. Taxi drivers are all meant to have the Knowledge, so why not make it include social and economical issues?

This year for our festival in London (12th-20th October), we’re organising an urban game by foot …and by bike which will be a different way of rediscovering the city!

In the meantime, click on one of the tabs to get involved!