On Friday 20 May, I travelled to Derby for an exciting day of activities on the theme of utopia and energy future as part of the Connected Communities Utopia Festival. On arrival, we were informed that in Utopia, there were 6 working hours and we were put in small groups with whom we were to spend those completing different tasks and thinking about a prototype that we would present to the other groups at the end of the day.
In the first session, our working group spent a bit of time getting to know each other and explaining what had brought us to the event. Some people had been associated with Stories of Change for a while, others had found their way to it through less direct connections. We all had varied backgrounds: academia, architecture, carpentry, business consultancy and film-making. But as we unpacked our questions and concerns about energy…
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