Rooted Innovation: The Future of Technology with Joycelyn Longdon

Tuesday April 15th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm

What does the future of technology look like amidst ecological and cultural breakdown? How we might come to see technology as a generational practice of craft, learning from those who have come before us, and those whose technologies are grounded in reciprocal relationships with the environment, in order to build the worlds of the future?

Joycelyn Longdon, environmental justice technologist, author, educator and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, will explore the histories and possibilities of technology beyond a Western industrialist view, beyond silver bullets and panacean solutions, towards an appreciation of the many forms of technology, old and new, material and cultural and the technologies nature itself designs.

Joycelyn's research focuses on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring of biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana. Her debut book, "Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom and Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action" was published in April 2025.

Her talk will be followed by supper and discussion.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter. Food complimentary.

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