Home EventsPart of Love Letters to a Liveable Future, residency

Love Letters in Conversation

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Photograph showing group of people sat at two tables having conversations. They are holding pens and are making notes. There are several people in the background who are standing up and wearing masks.
Love Letters To A Liveable Future, July 2021. Photo © Oliver Lucas.

What you’ll do

Join METIS performing arts company director Zoë Svendsen in conversation with a researcher on the climate crisis. They will discuss possible alternatives and solutions for a more liveable world, from social and economic change to ways to improve health and inequality.

Listen to their perspectives, then ask questions and share your own thoughts and ideas for creating a world we want to live in.

This conversation is part of METIS’s residency at Wellcome Collection.

Zoë will be in conversation with different people at each event:

  • 22 April she will be joined by Dr Rosemary Green who is researching the relationship between diets, the environment and health.
  • 28 April she will be joined by climate change expert Professor Dominic Kniveton.

Dates

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Friday 22 April 2022

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Thursday 28 April 2022

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

Guaranteed place

For this event, booking a ticket guarantees you a place on the day. We advise arriving 15 minutes before the event starts to take your place.

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About your contributors

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Zoë Svendsen

(she/her)
Host

Zoë Svendsen is a director and dramaturg who makes participatory theatre performances exploring contemporary political subjects developed through artistic research residencies in the UK and in Oslo, Norway. Past works include ‘Factory of the Future’ (Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2019) and ‘WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE’ (Barbican Centre, 2018). Zoë has collaborated on several occasions with the directors Polly Findlay and Joe Hill-Gibbins on the theatrical rethinking of classic texts for productions at the Young Vic, the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Zoë is a lecturer in Drama and Performance at the University of Cambridge, undertaking practice-led research, and her work has been developed in several artistic residencies. She has recently written a five-minute play on the climate crisis, commissioned by Climate Action Theatre, New York, for their biennial global project.

Dr Rosemary Green

(she/her)
Speaker

Rosemary trained as an epidemiologist, and wrote her PhD thesis on the long-term health consequences of the wartime famine in Guernsey. Before coming to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Rosemary worked as an analyst on a number of UK longitudinal studies, including the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE). Rosemary joined the School in 2011 on a Leverhulme Fellowship to study nutrition and sustainability, and since then has been pursuing her interest in the relationships between diets, the environment and health. 

Professor Dominic Kniveton

(he/him)
Speaker

Dominic Kniveton is Professor of Climate Change and Society at the University of Sussex. His research spans issues of development, climate change, disaster risk, migration and health. Through his research he has been asked for advice from the United Nations, the World Bank, the EU, the UK government and the International Organization for Migration, and currently is panel member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Resource Panel. His work in migration and climate change was recognised with the Royal Geographical Society’s Cuthbert Peek Award.