9 May Gallery 1 & The Box
Arrivals: 1145am, start for 12pm, finish 5pm Lunch: bring your own. food also available free from Next to Nowhere, refreshments provided

An unconference is a participant driven face-to-face conference that sets its own agenda on the day and facilitates inclusive debate.

The UNsustainable UNconference comes out of FACT's response to Liverpool's Year of the Environment and the urgent need to establish a forum to advance the ecology and dialogue around the sustainability of society. Held alongside our first project that explores this question, Climate for Change, the UNconference invites communities of interest who have been engaged in this project and others who are operating through self-organising networks and alternative models of both capital and cultural production.

During the course of the debate the participants with generate a Manifesto for Change; drafted by multiple authors, looking at envisaging and identifying the principles to adhere to, to live in a more sustainable world - a People's Plan rather than a Master Plan (to reference The Settlement project currently on display in the FACT Bar by the 'pool project)

There will be invited experts, consultants who are participating in civic discourse on social change and climate change, and all are are invited to contribute.

BRING YOUR LAPTOPS - BLOGGING, WIKI-ING, SHARING AND GEEKING ENCOURAGED!

Twitter tags: To tweet during the event, we'll use #manifestoforchange

This is a wiki! You write it and you edit it. Use the edit button at the bottom right corner of the page to include your name in the speakers/attendance list and include any ideas for sessions you may want to lead. Sessions will be divided into 30minute blocks and you can arrange this however you see fit. Some people might use the projector to talk about an issue, others will just talk for 10mins about what's on their mind. Your audience signs up to your session on the day. If you're not sure whether you'll talk about something and just want to come and listen, simply write your name down, including any information you're happy to share. If you're having trouble with this, please contact Leon Seth, who will be happy to edit this page on your behalf. Alternatively, if you're not sure and want to have a go, then we suggest you copy the entire code for one of the participants, paste it and edit the content for your own details :)

• Heather Corcoran (FACT, Curator of Climate for Change)
  • Fixed gear cycling, open source programming, squatting and skipping - the practical basics of four sustainable subcultures (or I could just choose one to outline depending on interest!)
  • The Liverpool Wiki - http://www.liverpoolwiki.org/

• Andy Miah (Professor in Ethics and Emerging Technologies, University of the West of Scotland & FACT Fellow)
  • Digital Divide, Digital Literacy - Is Web 2.0 doing better? What more action must we take? (cf. Pirate Bay, Spotify, Wordpress, Twitter, iPhone)
  • The Manifesto for Change - what can it do?

• Adrian McEwen - local Arduino hacker, geek and Internet of Things consultant
  • Not sure I'll have time to prepare a talk, but could cover things like:
  • Co-working and hackspaces - New ways of working and the embryonic movement to build one here in Liverpool
  • Hardware hacking and the Maker ethic - “If you can't open it, you don't own it”

• Michael King (Consultant and researcher)
  • Interested in the connection between real and virtual communities and how they support each other. Interested in how communities can be used as an enabler of energy and ghg reduction and other sustainability improvements. What would this look like in practice?
  • Part of the background to this is from personal carbon trading project work for last few years with the RSA http://www.rsacarbonlimited.org/viewarticle.aspa?pageid=938&nodeid=1
  • Further back I did lot of work around the 'business case' for sustainability. Could talk to that if interested: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/greenleaf/abstractpopup.kmod?productid=171
  • Will have no slides and less than zero prep!
• Andrew Williams (Local geek, developer, and usergroup organiser)
  • User groups and their ability to foster new groups and projects.

• Stefan Szczelkun (Climate for Change artist)
  • author of three of the Survival Scrapbooks series - DIY manuals for autonomous living first published in the early 1970s.

If we decide to evolve consciously rather than be ignominiously buffeted by the storms of capitalist irrationality = What would we choose to become? What problems would we need to solve? Where is the best thinking on each of these problems?

• Nina Edge ( Artist Cultural Leadership Programme at FACT )
  • Perhaps best known for gegging Guantanamo into the Turner Prize, bringing Bhopal to Britain and taking Sir Trevor McDonald on a tour of Liverpool’s world class ( yet tinned up ) houses. Interested in autonomy and it’s corrosion via The New Enclosures. Currently engaged in producing a year of interventions under the banner Abandon Normal Development Suggest a session might want to consider something infinitely possible via a new game - The Growth Economy, or something both possible and necessary; dealing with policy obsolescence. Unpicking dead ideas and knitting them into something new……

• Janette Porter & James Brady (local environmental, artists)
  • Artists working around environmental and social issues and members of the Gaia Project & L@tE. An informal talk about the experience of developing the early research phase of their 'High Tide: Mersey 2099' project. JP JB have been working with a collective of artists, LJMU and Proudman Oceanographic Lab. to find parallels of working practice as artist and scientists. www.high-tide.wetpaint.com

• Peter Woodward (Liverpool Environment Network)

• Daniel Barrett (Environmental Scientist)
  • Redesigning how we think and organise our lives in response to climate change
  • Developing practical responses to climate change to ensure our towns and cities are sustainabale places to live in

• Ian and Minako Jackson - artinliverpool.com Liverpool art bloggers / documenters / snappers
  • Maybe we'll just blog / photo / podcast it - more observing than debating.

• Samuel Bautista Lazo, (PhD Research Student, Design for sustainability: Industrial Methods)
  • Interested in the idea of “Un-Shopping” to return products and packages all the way back in the supply chain to achieve a Cyclic production - consumption system.

• Jean Grant ('pool project)
  • ‘pool project works with communities looking at the ecology and social dynamics of their spaces using walks, picnics, celebrations, conferrings and positive documentation, The Settlement project is currently presented in the FACT Bar over the course of the Climate for Change exhibition.

• Anthony Madume
  • Interested in Climate Change, waste management and water/ energy production

• Keith Thomason
  • Engineer & General Technologist
• Corallie Hunt
  • Marine Data Scientist - Interest in Climate Change

• Stephen Sykes
  • Emansys http://www.emansysuk.com. Environmental consultant working with businesses, organisations and community groups with their own building to manage. I also facilitate Green Drinks Liverpool http://www.greendrinks.org/index.php?country=UK&city=Liverpool

• Emma Dunkley -
  • Co chair of Liverpool Uni's Oxfam Society. Interested in listening mainly and being inspired!

• David Hunt
  • Director of renewable energy specialists Eco Environments.

• Dr Anthony Mark Cutter
  • Head of Innovation in Society at the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion at University of Central Lancashire

• John Davies
  • Photographer and Save the Festival Gardens Campaigner

• Laura Sillars
  • FACT, Head of Programme

• Margaret Ryan

• Jimmy Devlin

• Annie Merry
  • Director of Faiths4Change (http://www.faiths4change.org.uk)
  • Community cohesion project engaging people of faith & goodwill to work in partnership to create projects that transform local environments, enable people to develop skills & relationships - sustainably.
  • Also active organic gardener. Keen to share, learn & be inspired.

• Vanessa Bartlett
  • Environment 2.0 Coordinator, Futuresonic Festival, Manchester http://www.futuresonic.com/env20
  • Artist and Writer. http://vanessabartlett.com/
  • I have a suspision that arts institutions are not the best place to nuture grass roots political activism. I want this event to teach me to believe otherwise.
  • I am really excited and interested to hear other people's opinions and to learn more.

• Philipp-Clemens Nowotny
  • MA student Environmental Management and Planning at UoL
  • Listener as unfortunately short in time

• Bernard Gudynas
  • Artist and Creative Director interested in community engagement through artistic practise

• Beatriz Garcia (director of Impacts08 programme)
  • coming to listen

• Richard Fassam, Trustee 'Health and Poverty Forum'
  • Like to hold a debate around poverty, culture and deprivation.

• John O'Shea, Artist, Projects Co-ordinator, The Meat Licence Proposal http://www.meatlicence.org.uk
  • Coming along out of curiosity
  • Perhaps present something related to Freedom of Information Act 2000… http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/section_60_statistics_applicatio#comment-2073