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Compassion for Rural Communities

Samuel Mann with Audrey Snyder [ 56:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr Audrey Snyder is associate dean of nursing – experiential learning and innovation at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is President of the global Rural Nurse Organisation. We talk about the personal development of the ethic of care – asking can we train for that? A passion for making a difference to […]

politics of everyday life

Samuel Mann with Deane Neubauer [ 57:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Deane E. Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Over the course of his career he has focused on a variety of political and policy areas including democratic theory, public policy, elections and various policy foci, including education, health, agriculture and communication. We talk about the rapidly changing […]

Youth that needs to be listened to

Samuel Mann with Matt Shepherd, Sylvia Ottley and Luke Geddes [ 56:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Matt Shepherd, Sylvia Otley and Luke Geddes from the Youth Working Group of the Otago UN Regional Centre for Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development

Real positive change

Samuel Mann and Shane Gallagher with Zak Rudin [ 59:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Zak Rudin was one of the co-organisers of the Dunedin School Strike for Climate. Now he has finished school, we talk about what drives him and what’s next.

Head in the crowds

Samuel Mann with Marc Wilson [ 46:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We talk with Prof Marc Wilson of Victoria University of Wellington. Why is there such a gap between science and people who don’t believe in climate change? Psychology. Marc says that what we believe, we believe for a reason, and in this case a lot of disbelief can be linked to views on hierarchy […]

programming to save the planet

Samuel Mann with Adrian Friday [ 50:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Adrian Friday is Head of Department and Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University. Adrian Friday is Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University talking about programmers power to create responsibly. I loved creating new things Vision for future (Can computing save the world?) Computing has a role to play – it […]

Service-led Leadership

Samuel Mann with Thomas Wynn [ 58:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Cook Islands communicator Thomas Wynn was in Dunedin to speak at the Otago Polytechnic Distinguished Alumni Awards. Talking points Good leaders have served, and served well – with a strong values base. How do we change the world? Do something. Our greatest successes happen around the kitchen table. Creating a space at the table […]

Computing for social responsibility

Samuel Mann with Alan Borning [ 52:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Alan Borning is Professor Emeritus at Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the founder of Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy (SEED). For the longest time, the things that I care about – sustainability, urban form – were not really connected to my day job, so I refocused my […]

Emotion and logic
art

Samuel Mann with Rachel Jacobs [ 57:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr Rachel Jacobs is an artist based in Nottingham and London. She founded the collective Active Ingredient. Rachel completed a PhD in 2014 entitled ‘The Artist’s Footprint: Investigating the distinct contributions of artists engaging the public with climate change’. We discuss many of Rachel’s projects, including A Conversation between trees (ACM), The Prediction Machine, and […]

Positive, responsible innovation

Samuel Mann with Helena Webb [ 58:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr Helena Webb is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Helena explores how people interact with technologies in different kinds of setting and how social action both shapes and is shaped by innovation. We talk about responsible innovation, opportunities for positive change, and running ethical hackathons […]

rethinking impact

Samuel Mann with Lucy Pei [ 53:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Lucy Pei is a PhD student at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California Irvine. Lucy was volunteering at a literacy centre for resettled refugees and could see problems with the things she and others were doing – even though they we doing it properly. This led to […]

Green criminology
law

Samuel Mann with Paul Stretesky [ 58:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Paul Stretesky is a Professor at Northumbria University where he specialises in green criminology. We talk environmental justice and environmental crime. Both a crime and a created crime Race to the bottom The political-economic organisation of capitalism causes environmental destruction. Capital will move where it can to create profit, but pollution knows no boundaries. […]

golden thread: positive values

Samuel Mann with Kathy New [ 52:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Kathy New is a researcher at Lancaster University on the socio-digital sustainability team. With a background in ecology and teaching and in the charity sector, Kathy is interested in social justice in energy markets, particularly the links between food poverty and fuel poverty. If we’re looking for my golden thread, I would have to […]

Imagining how things could be different

Samuel Mann with Ann Light [ 57:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Ann Light is Professor of Design & Creative Technology at the University of Sussex and Prof of Interaction Design, Social Change and Sustainability at Malmö University, Sweden. Ann is a qualitative researcher specializing in design for social wellbeing, participatory design and social innovation, with a particular interest in creative practice for transformations to sustainability. […]

Artful Design

Ge Wang is the Artful Designer. Associate Professor in the Department of Music (and by courtesy in Computer Science) at Stanford University. His book Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime is a masterpiece of photocomic that hides a book on the nature, meaning, and purpose of design in this age of technology, […]

Rural imaginings

Samuel Mann with Valentine Cadieux [ 59:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Professor Valentine Cadieux is Director of Environmental Studies and Director of Sustainability at Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota. She studies collaborative knowledge practices related to food, agriculture, and land in the context of settler society cultures in Canada, the United States, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Talking points. Incentivised to explore the woods behind […]

Messaging for change

Samuel Mann with Matt Lawrey [ 57:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Matt Lawrey currently serves the community as a second term Nelson City Councillor. He is also the creator of New Zealand’s popular cartoon on family life, The Little Things. We talk about he brings from his background in the media, and how he is working to achieve a thriving green society for his family. […]

Planting seeds

Samuel Mann with Cal Egan [ 54:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Cal Egan is a researcher at Edinburgh Napier University investigating intersections of permaculture and digital design and technology. He is developing Lions’ Gate as a regenerative ‘blended space’ as a space for exploring urban permaculture and as a place to explore the role of technology in a thriving future. I wanted to know why […]