Settlements & Transport

We would like to make conference material permanently available. We will do this by using the original programme format. We asked contributors to submit any slides and written commentary and you will be able to access these items. In some cases we were also able to record presentations on video, although the sound quality was erratic. The process will take some time to complete, so this section will develop over the coming months.

There are two ways you can watch these films:

  • To watch a specific speaker you can watch the film under their name (the image you see is the same for all films, but once you press play it jumps to the speaker).
  • Watch the full version of the session available at the end of this section.

Event 1: Forty Years of Time Travel:  Revisiting Radical Technology 1.0

The day was structured around some principal sections of RT 1.0, each including an original author.

The sessions lasted 50 minutes, with a chair/timekeeper, a principal Reviewer and a panel of invited commentators. The commentators were asked to deliver 5 minutes of largely extempore commentary on RT 1.0 and the remarks of the principal reviewer, but many chose to make more formal presentations, with slides. The founder of the Transition Towns movement, Rob Hopkins, was invited to comment from time to time, as a representative of the ‘next generation’ following that of the original authors.

Settlements & Transport

Chair: Daphne Davies     Reviewer: Peter Harper

Peter Harper: Critical reflections on ‘autonomy’:

Slide presentation

Herbert Girardet: Ideal communities in city and country:

Chas Ball: Transport, Car Clubs and shared mobility:

Hugh Barton: Technological naivety in envisaging settlements; the Urban Centre for Appropriate Technology:

Robert and Brenda Vale: Successful examples of autonomous housing:

Slide presentation . See also their wikipedia entry  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_and_Robert_Vale

Rob Hopkins and Discussion:

The whole discussion in one film: