Thursday June 30 2022, 6:30pm BST

Reclaiming the Earth | Intelligence Squared and Harewood House

The movement for a more sustainable future can no longer be divorced from the movement for racial justice. The impact of climate change on communities in the Global South, combined with the legacy of environmental damage caused by extractive colonial policies, highlights the need to connect the dots.

Intelligence Squared has partnered with Harewood House for this special free event to accompany the Harewood Biennial, Radical Acts: Why Craft Matters. The 2022 Biennial explores why craft is a radical act in itself, helping us to address urgent crises in life and society today, and looking to a future where we might live in a more environmentally and socially responsible way.

Our Reclaiming the Earth event will set the tone for a two-day symposium exploring the intersection of craft, social justice and sustainability. In the beautiful surroundings of Harewood House, Ligaya Salazar, curator at the Crafts Council and the Wellcome Collection, Claire Ratinon, food grower and author of the recently published memoir Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong, and Spandana Gopal, founder of Tiipoi, a product design studio based in London and Bangalore, will be in conversation on the relationship between their craft, their heritage and the environment.

Join us in person or online for this unique conversation in a remarkable setting.

Speakers

SPEAKERS

Spandana Gopal

Founder of product design studio Tiipoi

Founder of Tiipoi, a product design studio based between Bangalore and London. Tiipoi aims to show that there is ‘more to Indian design than just sticking an elephant on it, and that Indian craft has more to offer than simply repeating the past’. The studio focuses on championing highly functional and beautiful designs, often using traditional manufacturing techniques from Bangalore. The studio’s objects have been featured in many world-renowned publications including The Sunday Times and Wallpaper*.

Claire Ratinon

Organic food grower and writer

Organic food grower and writer. She has worked in a range of roles from growing produce for the Ottolenghi restaurant, Rovi, to delivering gardening workshops and talks to audiences including East London primary schools, community centres and educational institutions. Her recently published memoir Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong, is a work of nature writing, storytelling and memoir, and it charts her first year of making a life in the countryside while reflecting on her journey into food growing, the stories of her family and the history of Mauritius.

Ligaya Salazar

Curator at the Crafts Council and the Wellcome Collection

Curator focused on contemporary interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of design, fashion, art and graphics, currently working at the Crafts Council and The Wellcome Collection. She has devised creative cultural programmes across the cultural and museum sectors for 15 years. As Director of Fashion Space Gallery and Arcade East, at the University of the Arts’ London College of Fashion, she developed the strategic direction for the two galleries from 2013-2020. As Curator of Contemporary Programmes at the V&A from 2005–13, she commissioned and curated exhibitions, events and projects within a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed cross-disciplinary programme.

Chair

Dipo Faloyin

Senior editor and writer at VICE and author of Africa Is Not A Country

Senior editor and writer at VICE, where his work has a specific focus on race, culture, and identity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His writing has also featured in Dazed, i-D, The Huffington Post, Refinery 29, Huck, Highsnobiety and Prospect. Africa Is Not A Country is his debut book.

Speakers are subject to change.

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Thursday June 30 2022, 6:30pm BST

Reclaiming the Earth | Intelligence Squared and Harewood House

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