2) MINISTRY OF IMAGINATION

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Lecture and advice for the future by.
Rob Hopkins at Copenhagen City Hall.
Invitation to the city’s politicians, businesses, researchers, citizens, practitioners and entrepreneurs to an evening where we unleash our most ambitious visions of the future – for our city and our streets.

Take a time travel journey to the other side of the great transition – and back again!

We Do Democracy in collaboration with BLOXHUB and the City of Copenhagen.

In a time of growing polarization and lack of political courage, it sometimes seems like the only thing we can all agree on is that the future will be terrible.
An epidemic of loneliness and anxiety, wars and conflicts, extremist movements, foot dragging governments, catastrophic climate change, biodiversity loss and increasing food insecurity.
The list of crises is long.

BUT, there are plenty of examples of how visionary and committed citizens, businesses and politicians can change society, quickly, dramatically and unexpectedly.
We’ve invited Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Towns movement, who has seen it happen first-hand around the world and in his own small English town of Totnes.
Here the community has become its own housing developer, energy company, business incubator and food producer.

We need communities, businesses, leaders who are not afraid to ask the big, hard questions and rethink our

This is one event in a series of events on September 12-13, explore the others below and reserve a spot:

DAY 1: September 12, 2024

1) REIMAGINE THE BUILT INVIRONMENT

9:00-15:00 @ BaneGaarden – Otto Busses Vej 45, 2450 Copenhagen

Together with BLOXHUB’s REGEN network, you are invited to rethink the built environment.
With this workshop we offer a space for reflection, contemplation and imagination, using Copenhagen as a case study and playground

-> Read more and sign up here

2) MINISTRY OF IMAGINATION

17.00-19.00 @ Copenhagen City Hall – BR Salen, Rådhuspladsen 1

Lecture and advice for the future by.
Rob Hopkins at Copenhagen City Hall.
Invitation to the city’s politicians and stakeholders, where we unleash our most ambitious visions for the future – for our city and our streets.

-> Read more and sign up here

DAY 2: September 13, 2024:

3) INTEREST RATE: TRANSITION RENTEMESTERVEJ NV

14.00-16.00 @ DEMOKRATI GARAGE, Rentemestervej 57, 2400 Copenhagen NV

Together with Rob Hopkins, we zoom in on Rentemestervej in Northwest, where we ask the question: How can we translate the ideas behind Transition Towns in the Rentemester neighborhood in NV?

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4) DINNER, INTEREST & HOPKINS

17.30-19.00 @ DEMOKRATI GARAGE, Rentemestervej 57, 2400 Copenhagen NV

Join us for an open and free community dinner in Folkestuen at Demokrati Garage, where we are curious about how to strengthen local communities and ensure a just, green transition at street level.

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About Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, author of several books including The Transition Handbook, From What Is to What If and Ministry of Imagination.

Transition movement co-founder Rob Hopkins has seen first-hand local green and radical transformations and new forms of democratic leadership developing locally across the world and in his own home town of Totnes, England.
Here, the community has established its own housing developers, energy company, business incubator and local food network – with cascading benefits for the community that go far beyond individual projects.