Venue: Seminar space, LAB-14, The Carlton Connect Initiative
Presenters: Dr Renee Beale
The discovery of hyper-time should have changed everything. But somehow, even though we can access an additional time dimension, allowing us to add an extra twelve hours to each day, the same old problems remain.
We still struggle with a changing climate, water security, and a global economy teetering on the brink of recession. We still have the vexing problem of poverty and starvation on one hand, and obesity on the other.
The one world government has decided that something productive should be done, and is looking to mandate the way in which people are permitted to spend their additional time. Being a merciful government, they are taking submissions.
The business council is advocating for the 80-hour working week. The health council is pushing for compulsory exercise. Environmental groups are urging sustainable living initiatives. Disparate activist groups are petitioning for the freedom for people to choose.
You are on the parliamentary committee entrusted with this decision. Somehow, you must balance the pleas from representatives of the business, health, environment and activist groups. How will you choose to keep the citizens of the world from just killing time?
To Kill Time is a ThoughtLAB-14 event where we invite a guest panel to interact with the audience to collaborate on ideas, analyse evidence and dream alternative futures.
Event facilitated by Dr Renee Beale, Creative Community Animator, Carlton Connect Initiative.
Panel members:
Dr Stephen Haley – artist and Senior Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts
Weston Lewis – Sustainability Consultant, Umow Lai
Jacob Workman – Manager Education and Programs, the Centre for Workplace Leadership
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6520-thoughtlab-14-to-kill-time
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