Getting in the mood for Mull #2 – with Jay Tompt

On the weather-beaten island of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, two artists from the Netherlands set up camp, taking a vow to “work with the elements, not fight them”. Over time they grew a garden, a seasonal residency programme and a neighbourhood barn-in-a-barn. How to thrive and make kin with other humans and non-humans in such a remote place, year-round? The team of In Search of the Pluriverse will find out by temporarily relocating to this northern edge of Europe.

Wong & Krier needed some more context before they left for the UK, Scotland, Mull. To touch base before the actual travel. They choose for a climate/activist perspective – Climate conference COP26, Glasgow is coming up in November – and they wanted to gain more insight in economic/political innovation at a local/community level in the UK. Listen to their conversations with Suzanne Dhaliwal and Jay Tompt.

Jay Tompt is a lecturer in the MA Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College and co-founder of the Totnes REconomy Project (UK), for which he regularly delivers trainings in transition. A ‘political entrepreneur with California style enthusiasm’. Jay works as an executive, consultant, activist and writer. His areas of expertise include citizen-led economics, ethical consuming, green supply chain and waste reduction. A talk about the marginal position of local politics in the UK, the come back of the commons, about the potential of dragons and the power of participation. Listen to an insider who plays the outsider-card whenever needed. 

References

• Totnes REconomy Project
  reconomycentre.org/
• Local Spark Torbay
  localsparktorbay.org/
• Schumacher College, MA Regenerative Economics
  www.schumachercollege.org.uk/
  campus.dartington.org/regenerative-economics/
• On Making the Yes and the No, with Jay Jordan and Isa Frémeaux
  Hetnieuweinstituut – Warming-up-to-the-pluriverse-8-on-making-the-yes-and-the-no
• The 1999 Battle in Seattle against WTO rules of trade
  www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhi…otests-in-seattle
• Anti and alter globalisation movement
  www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-…movement/g-39573255
• World Social Forum
  wsf2021.net/
• Transition Town movement, Totnes
  www.transitiontowntotnes.org/
  transitionnetwork.org/
• Scotland’s independence movement
  www.cfr.org/in-brief/whats-next…dependence-movement
• Flatpack democracy: power tools for reclaiming local politics
  www.flatpackdemocracy.co.uk
• On the Welfare State, and its start in Darlington
  www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/r…stem.html
• Open Space method
  www.mind.org.uk/media-a/4924/open-space-method.pdf
• The Local Entrepreneur Forum and the Community of Dragons
  reconomycentre.org/home/lef/
• Brexit slogan “Getting back control”
  www.irishtimes.com/culture/take-ba…urope-1.3824393
• The Dragons’ Den TV show
  www.youtube.com/channel/UCDAzmE9V4Xw5CdLkn3pvO3A
• Myrtle Cooper, Wild & Curious
  wildandcurious.org.uk
• Incredible Edibles
  www.incredibleedible.org.uk/
• Incredible Farm
  incrediblefarm.co.uk/
• Community Interest Company (CiC)
  www.gov.uk/government/publicat…report-2020-to-2021
• Community Benefit Society (CBS)
  www.mondaq.com/uk/charities-non-…y-benefit-society
• Guerilla Gardening
  www.guerrillagardening.org/
• On relocalisation as a permaculture principle: David Holmgren, Pathways to Sustainability
  store.holmgren.com.au/product/princi…-and-pathways/
• Biogregionalism: becoming native to a place
  cascadiabioregion.org/what-is-bioregionalism

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