Crafting Time for Transformation, Autumn 2026
Two-day workshop at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking
Event:
Two-day workshop (residential optional)
Dates:
16 November 2026 4:00pm to 18 November 2026 4:00pm
Venue:
Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking
Location:
Stroud, UK
About the workshop
This workshop, based on our ongoing research with community and government agencies, supports professionals and community activists to explore how time plays a role in social change and how we can work creatively with time to open up possibility.
Over two days, we invite you to gently and creatively unpick taken for granted habits and develop new tools for working (and playing) with time. You will be invited to explore:
Assumptions about time and how these shape our day-to-day work and practice
The range of temporal habits and preferences we might find in groups and communities, learning how these might clash or add to our own perspectives
Foundational tools for crafting time ourselves, the dimensions we can play with and alter to create possibility in our work with others
The core features of common timestories and how these shape our sense of possibility
How to set these practices in motion and bring them back into our own lives
About Hawkwood
Located in an area of outstanding beauty in Stroud, Hawkwood is a Grade II listed building, biodynamically run estate and community farm. Since 1948, Hawkwood has been a registered arts and education charity, welcoming over 20,000 participants a year through its doors and onto its programmes.
Hawkwood aims to provide an inspirational setting for our local, national and international community. A much needed place for growth, creativity, conversation and exploration.
Summer School on Time and Sustainability, Spring 2026
Stockholm & Uppsala, Sweden
Event:
Half-day online, 4 days in person
Dates:
May/June 2026
Venue:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
SLU, Uppsala Campus.
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
About the summer school
This course will create an exciting interdisciplinary learning community bringing together students from Ecology and Environmental Communications/Humanities (in the main), with those working in adjacent fields across Sweden. They will come together to address a rapidly growing new research topic that is becoming critically important across sustainability debates in all disciplines: the question of TIME.
The course will help students to:
Interrogate and understand how temporal assumptions shape their own practices and their discipline’s approach to research
Use diverse tools to notice and make visible competing human and multi-species temporalities at play in sustainability transitions and transformations
Support participants to critically reflect on the way that timing mechanisms and practices inform academic and social debates about sustainability issues
Consider how to work creatively with a repertoire of tools to diagnose how time is at play in your own research study and open up new areas for working with time in your own research.
Become comfortable and familiar with working in interdisciplinary teams, recognising and learning from diverse perspectives and methods.
The course is organised under the August T Larsson Guest Professorship at SLU and is in collaboration with the KTH Centre for Anthropocene History. It will be led by Professor Keri Facer (Bristol University) and Dr Harriet Hand (Bristol University), supported by Prof Åsa Berggren. The course will also benefit from the assistance and contributions of Sanna Barrineau (Uppsala University), Anne-Kathrin Peters (KTH) and Lakin Anderson (KTH) who specialise in sustainability education and transformations.
