Gaia Vince and Tim Minshall

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Saturday, 10 May @ 11.30am
£15.00
Empowerment, Wellbeing

Nomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval and Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things , Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

In a discussion of the climate crisis, migration and manufacturing, science writer and broadcaster Gaia Vince will be in conversation with Cambridge Professor of Innovation Tim Minshall.

Gaia Vince is a science writer, broadcaster and Anthropocene researcher exploring the interplay between human systems and the planetary environment. Her latest book, Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World, explores global migration and planetary restoration in a radical call to arms.

Tim Minshall is the Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, the head of the Engineering Department’s Institute for Manufacturing, a fellow of Churchill College, and the author of Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better. His research, teaching and outreach are focused on the links between manufacturing and innovation.

Whatever AI becomes… it will never replicate or penetrate the essence of what it means to be human. – Matthew Syed

The book 'Nomad Century' by Gaia Vince
The book 'Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things , Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better' by Tim Minshall

Running Time: 1 hour plus Q&A

Age Recommendation: 14+

A Book signing will be conducted post show

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