Invitation to Explorers Club 13 June 2006

next Dott 07 (Designs of the Time) Explorers Club meeting on 13 June being held at the Robert Stephenson Centre in Newcastle.

This month we are focusing on Vital Signs, well-being indicators for the Region. What would it mean to monitor the region’s vital signs in real time? How can we design improved indicators to look at ecological footprints, energy use of buildings, food miles, transport intensity, and housing density alongside traditional economic indicators? What technologies can we use to design means of benchmarking and communicating our progress? These are the questions we want to discuss with you.

Leading the discussion will be:

Janet Abrams author of Else/Where: Mapping http://www.elsewheremapping.com/

Nic Marks, Head of the Centre for Well-being at New Economics Foundation www.neweconomics.org  

Sarah Cook from CRUMB www.crumbweb.org

If you have a friend or colleague that is interested in vital signs, we’d like you to bring them too. Please RSVP to Arlene Kitching, Arlene.kitching@dott07.com by 2 June 2006.

Agenda for the evening:

18:00 Welcome drink

18:15  Dott07 progress report from John Thackara

18:30  Knowledge Mapping, Janet Abrams

18:45  Well being indicators, Nic Marks

19:00 Regional visualisations, Sarah Cook

19:15 Buffet dinner and discussion

20:00  End of Formal meeting

21:00  Cloaks

Our next Explorers Club will be 11 July and will focus on Energy and the Environment.

Kind regards

John Thackara

Programme Director