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Programme of events in support of Earth Day 19 - 23 April 2021
AUB Human proudly supports:
Earth Day
22nd April 2021
Earth Day is an annual global event that aims to raise awareness of
climate change, global warming and the ecological crisis. Earth Day calls
upon us all to protect the environment, pledge support and take action.
Please join us for a day inspiration; insightful speaker talks, a workshop
that enables you to engage with the UN Sustainable Development Goals,
a Creative Writing Symposium that also gives you the opportunity to
participate in the AUB Earth Bards Open Mic. Alternatively, you can explore
the online Instagram exhibitions that showcase winning and shortlisted
student work from the Costume for Change competition or the AUB
Sustainability Awards as selected by the Environment Committee.
Alice Stevens
AUB Human Founder
Shepard Fairey. Earth Crisis. 2019. Artstor, library.artstor.org/asset/27081939
For more information please visit AUB Human
www.aub.ac.uk/courses/aub-human/
Twitter/Instagram @AUBhuman
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Together, we At AUB we are committed to implementing best
environmental practices and in 2020 we achieved the
will restore
EcoCampus Platinum award.
Our Environment Management System alongside our Sustainability Plan,
ensures we manage the campus efficiently, continually aim to minimize
OUR
emissions and utility usage, and ultimately achieve our carbon neutrality
ambitions. We have also made a commitment to never investing in
fossil fuels.
In addition, The AUB Environment Committee recognises student work
that takes a particularly interesting or innovative approach to sustainability
through the AUB Sustainability Awards. All new staff attend environmental
EARTH
sustainability inductions and we promote biodiversity and Fairtrade.
The AUBSU have been awarded ‘Excellent’ for the past 3 years for their
Green Impact for their engagement campaigns, commitment to ethical
purchasing, supporting sustainable organisations and working with AUB to
make sustainable changes within the University. The AUBSU Green team
also provide many opportunities for students, so please get involved!
Join EARTHDAY.ORG and over
1 billion participants around the
world and take action on April 22nd
Visit EARTHDAY.ORG for more information
https://www.earthday.org/take-action-now/
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AUB Human: Earth Day Programme
Speaker talks Symposium
+ Storytelling for Good 8 Writing the Earth: Creative Writing & the Environment
Jon Cleave | 22 April 2-3pm
+ Day 1: April 22 10am – 1pm 24
+ Design for Direct Action 12
Rosie Strickland | 22 April 4.30 – 5.30pm Introduction
Dr Kevan Manwaring
Weaving the Wind
Workshop
Dr Kevan Manwaring
+ SDG’s Type Poster Workshop | Tom Hubmann 16
Day 1: 19 April 11am – 3pm Wild writing & Ecopoetry
Day 2: 22 April 11am – 1pm Helen Moore
It’s Not The End Of The World: rewriting the eco-apocalypse
Online Instagram Exhibitions Catherine Heinemeyer
+ Costume for Change 20
An online exhibition of shortlisted student work + Day 2: April 23 1pm – 6pm 26
+ Sustainable Futures 22
The Disclosure of Possible Worlds
An online exhibition of the AUB Sustainability Awards
Anthony Nanson
Talking about climate issues through audio drama and podcasting
Tech for Trees 28
Chris Gregory
Competitions 30
Writing as Activism, from Dystopia to Solar Punk and Beyond
Further Reading 32 Anna Orridge
AUB EARTH BARDS
Acknowledgements 34
Participant Open Mic.
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Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 929 1385 1511
Passcode: 362849
https://aub.zoom.us/j/92913851511?pwd=SHB3SzhFU003enpac01hbFVBb2ovdz09
Jon Cleave
www.newyonder.earth
@newyonder
Storytelling for Good
22 April 2021 | 2pm - 3pm
Jon will be speaking about his career and journey from AUB as a
graphic design graduate, to advertising through film, to becoming
founder of Newyonder. This talk will explore why he believes that it is
through stories that people make sense of the world, and the greater
we understand it, the more likely we are to preserve it. He will also
offer insight as how others could be thinking of their work and future
businesses, no matter the sector, of becoming a brand for good.
Jon’s work spans a multitude of creative fields. From founding
Newyonder™, a media and entertainment company and Certified
Pending B Corp dedicated to leaving our planet wilder, more sustainable
and biodiverse than when we started through storytelling, optimism
and change, to Creative Direction, Scriptwriting and Art Direction in
Advertising, to competing on a world stage through Design Thinking, to
producing Film & Fine Art Photography Collections about our natural world
that have been featured online and in press articles around the world from
Forbes to National Geographic and WWF.
Outdoor Portrait / Jon Cleave | Indoor Portrait taken by (copyright) Dan Boulton www.dboulton.com
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Seals, "Looking up to you" | Photographer, Jon Cleave Sub Arctic Voyage | Photographer, Jon Cleave
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Rosie Strickland
www.disobedientdesign.co.uk
@rosiestrickland
Design for Direct Action
22 April 2021 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Design for direct action positions design at the leading edge of social Rosie Strickland is a designer and art director for social change. Her design
change. It explores the organic, social components of change making, consultancy Disobedient Design works with organisations and groups on
strategies and interventions for social and ecological change. Trained in
and offers a provocation that social change can be designed and
graphic design with a background in designing interventions for the built
manufactured. It is in this light that Rosie presents a compelling call-to-
environment and a passion for architecture, Rosie specialises in interventions
action for designers, architects and creative practitioners to engage that cut-through architectural space with new visual and spatial narratives.
in social change challenges through their work. She will highlight the Her design practice is informed by four years designing direct actions and
power at designer’s fingertips to lead us out of the challenges that face brand attacks for Greenpeace UK, and ten years designing for grassroots
activism in refugee solidarity and climate action projects. She uses co-design
humanity and ecology today. Rosie will present a selection of her direct
principles and non-hierarchical creative facilitation expertise to lead team
action, visual communications and brand subvertising campaigns for
projects for social change. Rosie is a passionate advocate for the power of
Greenpeace, and talk us through key design considerations necessary design and creative practice to make change.
for designing interventions in public space.
Join Zoom Meeting
Further reading: Manufacturing Dissent Meeting ID: 963 7453 0282
https://rosiestrickland.medium.com/manufacturing-dissent-f5c5e9a26939 Passcode: 201398
https://aub.zoom.us/j/96374530282?pwd=OXdMbU8wNXcvQldMVDNTcCtIZXo4dz09
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Photo Credit: Greenpeace | Kristian Buus
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SDG’s Type Poster Workshop
Please join us for a type workshop based on the UN’s Sustainable Day 1 | 19 April 11am – 3pm
Development Goals (SDG’s) with illustrator, designer and visual artist,
Workshop introduction, the SDG’s and working
Tom Hubmann. Amongst Tom’s clients are Friends of the Earth and with typography
The Eden Project.
The boundaries between illustration, graphic design, visual
You will be using the SDG’s to inspire a type-based poster to promote, communication and fine art have blurred. Today’s workshop
challenge and raise awareness of a political, environmental and social with Tom Hubmann will undoubtedly ignite interest and
issue close to your heart. As part of the workshop, a selection of the enthusiasm within the fusion of these creative disciplines, and
posters will be featured in the online AUB Human pop-up exhibition in your engagement in the workshop will provide inspirational insight
support of Earth Day. and exciting potential for you to use your skills in communicating
global issues.
This workshop is run over two days:
19 April 11am – 3pm
Join: SDG’s Type Poster Workshop | Day 1
22 April 11am – 1pm
Meeting ID: 983 0115 6234
Passcode: 882123
https://aub.zoom.us/j/98301156234?pwd=SEUyRXhBRCtpYnoyS3NPN3BOcER3dz09
Day 2 | 22nd April at 11am – 1pm
Talk: Designing for Sustainability
Followed by Earth Day Pledges and exhibition of posters
Join: SDG’s Type Poster Talk | Day 2
Meeting ID: 974 2135 0267
Passcode: 843225
https://aub.zoom.us/j/97421350267?pwd=N1V5WWNOUk9KVzJJWkdra1J3ai9SZz09
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Tom Hubmann
tomhubmann.com
@tomhubmann
Tom is a visual artist and illustrator
based in Cornwall where he divides
his time between commercial work
and personal projects. He has worked
with clients such as the Eden Project,
Friends of the Earth, Finnisterre,
Howies, BAM, the ESI and has work
and publications regularly shown in
galleries and shops both nationally
and internationally.
Tom has a deep love for conservation
and the natural world and is interested
in ways the visual arts can be used to
help bring about positive change.
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Costume for Change | Online Exhibition
AUB Human is delighted to be showcasing student work that has been
shortlisted for the Costume for Change competition. Students from
BA Costume, BA Performance Design and Film Costume, BA Costume,
Performance Design and MA Historical Costume were asked to design a
costume that addresses issues of climate change and the environment.
Requiring students to create a visual gateway that encourages proactive
care for the natural world.
Second year student Elle Kearvell showcase’s her winning design alongside
the 4 runners up (Camille Bourasseau, Helena Green, Ruby Enticknap and
Benedicte Ollson Lønes). Explore the work in detail with a full explanation of
the ideas and approaches that has gone in to the designs and how costume
and clothing can be used to convey powerful messages. The winning
costume will be realised by costume students in the coming months
sponsored by the Jean Hunnisett Foundation. In addition to the feature
on the AUB Human website the courses will also use the costume as their
symbol of moving towards more sustainable practices
Winning student work is featured here in the online exhibition:
https://www.instagram.com/AubHuman/
See all the entries at #aubcostumeforchangecomp
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Sustainable Futures | Online Exhibition
AUB Human is delighted to present an online exhibition of student work
from across the AUB campus that won an AUB sustainability Award in
2020. The awards are selected by the AUB Environment Committee and
are in recognition of final year undergraduate student work that takes a
particularly interesting or innovative approach to sustainability.
Winning student work is featured here in the online exhibition:
https://www.instagram.com/AubHuman/
WINNER
Charley Harvey, BA (Hons) Architecture (featured)
Leon Newman & Brianna Barwell , BA (Hons) Acting
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Amelia Best, BA (Hons) Illustration
Tom Cornwell, BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Project team: Earthbourne, BA (Hons) Creative Events Management
COMMENDED
Ffion McCormack, BA (Hons) Fashion
Emily Duncan, BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Communication (featured)
Katherine Welch, BA (Hons) Fine Art (featured)
Emma Rodak, BA (Hons) Textiles (featured)
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Writing the Earth: Creative Writing & the Environment 12:00 Wild writing/Ecopoetry
Symposium Day 1 | 22 April 10am - 1pm A co-creative practice with poet Helen Moore
What on earth are ‘wild writing’ and ‘ecopoetry’, and how are they ‘co-
10:00 Introduction creative’? In this workshop I’ll share aspects of my practice as an ecopoet
Dr Kevan Manwaring, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and socially engaged artist. And drawing on my ten-year experience as a
Forest School leader and writing mentor, I’ll illustrate some key aspects
10:10 Weaving the Wind – exploring different forms in climate fiction of my methodology, which I’ve developed into ‘Wild Ways to Writing’,
Anthology launch & interactive fiction play-through with a programme of themed assignments guiding participants on writing
Kevan Manwaring. journeys into deeper Nature connection.
Kevan will introduce two new writing projects that explore environmental
Do come with pen and paper at the ready, as I’ll invite you to join me in a
themes in radically different ways. In Heavy Weather: tempestuous tales
short writing exercise to connect with our wilder selves. And if you have
of stranger climes, (published by The British Library, 2021), Kevan has
questions, please bring them too!
selected and introduced Weird fiction; and in Hyperion, he taught himself
HTML to write a 24 episode interactive novel. There will be readings/play- Helen Moore is a British ecopoet, socially engaged artist, writer and Nature
through, followed by Q&A. educator. She has published three ecopoetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other
Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications,
11:00 It’s Not The End Of The World: rewriting the eco-apocalypse 2015), acclaimed by John Kinsella as ‘a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics’,
Script-writing with Catherine Heinemeyer. and The Mother Country (Awen Publications, 2019) exploring aspects of British
colonial history. Helen offers an online mentoring programme, Wild Ways to Writing,
This writing workshop will explore how we can move past writing dystopian
and works with students internationally. In 2020 her work was nominated for the
warning scenarios, and get to grips with how human and more-than-human
Forward and Pushcart Prizes and received grants from the Royal Literary Fund and
dramas play out in communities in ecological crisis. Our starting points Arts Council England. She’s currently collaborating with Cape Farewell in Dorset
will be true stories from the distant and recent past and from parts of the on RiverRun, a project working with scientists and farmers in Dorset to examine
Global Majority World, and possibly true stories from our own futures. pollution in Poole Bay and its river-systems. www.helenmoorepoet.com
Dr Cath Heinemeyer is a storyteller, drama facilitator and Lecturer in Arts and
Ecological Justice at York St John and Leeds Beckett Universities. Her practice
research investigates the potential of storytelling to facilitate dialogue across social
and generational divides, and in relation to challenging topics such as ecological
crisis, migration and mental health. She has led participatory arts projects with
young people and adults of all ages in numerous schools, youth theatres, mental
health settings, universities and community groups. Her book, ‘Storytelling in
Participatory Arts with Young People: the gaps in the story’ is published by Palgrave
Macmillan. She is also involved in coordinating performance, arts and community Join: Writing the Earth | Day 1
outreach activities for Extinction Rebellion York, and takes a leading role in Meeting ID: 854 4708 3002
incorporating ecological justice into the York St John curriculum.
Passcode: 694121
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85447083002?pwd=OWREdXBxNmxSWmZsaXlOYzVUbE1KUT09
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Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is a podcast and spoken word audio production
Writing the Earth: Creative Writing & the Environment
company making original audio drama, poetry and fiction. We work with writers, actors,
Symposium Day 2 | 23 April 1pm - 6pm musicians and sound designers to bring our stories to life and we have listeners all over
the world. Our work has been nominated for multiple awards and we were selected
to represent the United Kingdom at the 2020 UK International Radio Drama Festival.
13:00 The Disclosure of Possible Worlds: Magic and Enchantment in
We have provided content to the BBC and to broadcasters in the United States and
Oral Storytelling with author Anthony Nanson Canada. Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is regularly found in the upper reaches
of the Apple Podcast Drama and Fiction charts in the United Kingdom, the USA, Ireland,
Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation
Canada and Australia. https://alternativestories.com/
and disenchantment in modern society, Anthony’s latest book (Storytelling
and Ecology: Empathy, Enchantment and Emergence in the Use of Oral 15:00 Short fiction & audio drama with Anna Orridge
Narratives, published by Bloomsbury, June 2021) investigates the capacity of Writing as Activism, from Dystopia to Solar Punk and Beyond.
oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew
their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Cli fi, particularly in its more dystopian forms, is often seen as a warning, a literary
canary in the coal mine. But might the darkest visions of our collective future lure
Anthony Nanson is a Gloucestershire-based writer and storyteller with a
readers into fatalistic apathy? Are the more positive visions of Solar Punk and
background in natural sciences, education, and publishing. He enjoys the exciting
Afro Futurism more likely to inspire action? Anna will talk about how activism has
synergies of working with both the oral and the written word. A love of nature,
influenced her short stories, and discuss the challenges of helping to adapt one
authenticity, and the spirit of place informs all his work. Anthony is the author
of these stories for an audio drama. Participants are encouraged to bring a short
of Deep Time (2015) - a prehistoric lost-world adventure romance - and three
extract of their own environmental writing for a short activity.
collections of stories: Exotic Excursions (2008), Gloucestershire Folk Tales (2012),
and (with Kirsty Hartsiotis) Gloucestershire Ghost Tales (2015).
Anna Orridge was born in Birmingham. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from
http://www.anthonynanson.co.uk/
the University of East Anglia. Her stories, which span a wide range of genres, have
been published in Mslexia, MIR Online and a number of anthologies. Her story ‘A
14:00 Talking about climate issues through audio drama and podcasting
Reconciliation’ won the Climaginaries 2020 Anthroposcenes short story contest,
with Chris Gregory
and ‘Backdrop’, a cli fi piece, was recently adapted as an audiodrama by the podcast
In this session, Chris Gregory from the Alternative Stories and Fake Alternative Stories and Fake Realities.. She lives in Croydon with her husband and
Realities podcast will discuss ways in which the podcast has discussed two children, and works as a freelance language tutor.
climate issues through audio drama.
16:00 AUB EARTH BARDS: Participant Open Mic
Chris will talk about the ways in which podcasts can offer writers a platform To register contact kmanwaring@aub.ac.uk with title, form (e.g. poem,
to discuss climate issues through the cheap and increasingly accessible monologue, flash fiction), and length (most slots max. 5 mins)
medium of audio fiction. We’ll look at the ways in which the format can embrace
18:00 Thank you and End
the spectrum from big global pictures to the personal stories of individual
characters using listeners’ imaginations in place of expensive CGI effects.
Join: Writing the Earth | Day 2
The session will also address the issues of climate justice and climate-related
Meeting ID: 816 0097 5024
migration from the perspective of characters within our productions as well
Passcode: 828568
as looking at some of the techniques writers and producers might employ to
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81600975024?pwd=RnB6cVpwUTlSak9TWnNRdjhnN3h1Zz09
write radio and podcast drama that can potentially reach a global audience.
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Tech for Trees
Plant a tree without leaving your house!
Over the past 5 years, AUBSU and AUB have donated and planted
around 1000 trees each year in the local area. Unfortunately, we
couldn’t get out to do that this year, but we aren’t going to let a
lockdown stop us from planting trees…so, please get involved and help
get everyone at AUB planting trees through their browsers and apps!
Match-planting
For every 50 tree milestone that AUBSU hit, AUB has pledged to plant an
additional 500 trees through Eden Reforestation Projects. And if AUBSU
make their 500 target, AUB will plant another 1000 trees, boosting their
total to 4000 trees planted across 8 different countries: Haiti, Honduras,
Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal and Nicaragua.
Join the campaign!
https://forms.gle/3Tg5rEzT4up5CGWE8
Tech for Trees info, including the update on match-funding by AUB:
www.aubsu.co.uk/activities/green/techfortrees/
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Sustainability First: Art Prize 2021 Sustainability First: Writing Prize 2021
The Sustainability First Art Prize 2021 is open to all living British visual artists and The Sustainability First Writing Prize 2021 is open to British writers and international
international visual living, working or studying in the UK, established and emerging, writers living, working or studying in the UK, over the age of 18 years. Writing could
over the age of 18 years. Images of up to 3 works only can be submitted online per include, but is not limited to, an article, a personal account, an essay, a short story, or a
person. The works must be original, created in any media – including but not limited
poem. For the writing prize, we would like to see pieces of writing that respond to the
to painting, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, video and installation.
question: How do we achieve meaningful social changes in the UK to tackle the
climate crisis and develop a fairer society?
Full terms and conditions of competition entry can be found here:
https://www.sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/terms-conditions Full terms and conditions of competition entry can be found here:
https://www.sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/terms-conditions
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Further Reading
This reading list has been kindly provided by Suzanna Hall in The Library Ehrenfeld, J.R. (2008). Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy
to give you the opportunity to further engage in the event theme. for Transforming Our Consumer Culture. New Haven: Yale University
Press [online]. Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aib/
detail.action?docID=3421000
eBooks
Hailwood, S.A. (2003). How to Be a Green Liberal: Nature, Value
Benson, E. and Perullo, Y. (2016). Design to Renourish: Sustainable and Liberal Philosophy. London: Taylor & Francis Group [online].
Graphic Design in Practice. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group [ebook]. Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aib/detail.
Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aib/detail. action?docID=1900149
action?docID=4778648
Hosey, L. (2012). The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design.
Berners-Lee, M. (2019). There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Washington: Island Press [online]. Available from: http://ebookcentral.
Make or Break Years. New York: Cambridge University Press [ebook]. proquest.com/lib/aib/detail.action?docID=3317587
Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aib/detail.
action?docID=5719355 Walker, S. (2006). Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and
Practice. London: Taylor & Francis Group [online]. Available from:
Boehnert, J. (2018). Design, ecology, politics: towards the ecocene. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aib/detail.action?docID=430211
New York: Bloomsbury Academic [online].
Available from: https://search.proquest.com/ebookcentral/ Journal Articles
docview/2134300917/9BB7ACA375A647C0PQ/116?accountid=8226.
Wahl, D.C. and Baxter, S. (2008). The Designer’s Role in Facilitating
Boylan, M. (2013). Environmental Ethics. Somerset: John Wiley & Sons
Sustainable Solutions. Design Issues. Vol. 24 No. 2. pp. 72–83.
[online]. Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aib/detail.
Available from: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/
action?docID=1315449
desi.2008.24.2.72.
Ceschin, F., Gaziulusoy, İ. and Gaziulusoy, İ. (2019). Design for
Websites
Sustainability : A Multi-level Framework from Products to
Socio-technical Systems. Abingdon: Routledge [ebook].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429456510 Ellen Macarthur Foundation. (n.d.). [online].
Available from: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
Charter, M. (2018). Designing for the Circular Economy. Milton: Taylor
& Francis Group [online]. Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest. United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2015).
com/lib/aib/detail.action?docID=5582423 The 17 Goals. [online].
Available from: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
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We would like to thank all the speakers for contributing to
the event, Professor Paul Gough, Professor Emma Hunt and
Marion Morrison for their ongoing support of AUB Human,
Dr Kevan Manwaring, new staff member in BA (Hons) Creative
Writing for convening Writing the Earth and Adele Keeley for
convening Costume for Change. In addition, a special thank
you to the AUB Environment Committee, James Jackson
and Nuala Clarke, for their ongoing work in environmental
Shepard Fairey. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. We The Future Are Earth Guardians. 2018. Artstor, library.artstor.org/asset/24679392
sustainability, promoting Fairtrade and enabling ethical
purchasing options on campus.
Finally, a thank you to AUBSU Sabbatical Officers, Louise Hall and Kamila
Dowgiert, who are convening Ethos For Change, a symposium running in
parallel to the AUB Human Earth Day events, that address issues of diversity,
equality, sustainability, and climate change, thus providing students with
further opportunities to engage with current pressing global issues.
Credit:
Event convenor: Alice Stevens
Programme Design: Natalie Carr
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