Professor Andrew Samuels:

The Trick of Change: Can Artifice Save Nature?

Human ingenuity and creativity are needed for the vision of a sustainable future to be achieved. In part, this means looking to the tricks and deceptions of artifice and artificiality. All too often, environmental campaigners and proponents of the new economics seem deeply wedded to doing things ‘naturally’, to an idea of ‘nature’ that, without the balance that artifice provides, is just hopelessly sentimental. Alongside a punchy talk about all of this, with literary examples and no psychological jargon, I’ll explore artifice via one of its most extreme and venerable examples - our use of perfume. In our time together, using bottles and sprays, we will smell our way to sustainability.

Strand: Sustainable Consciousness & Psychology

Type of event: Presentation plus experiential bits

Place: Room 1 upstairs in Primary School

Starts: 17:00

Ends: 18:00

Presenter's Personal/Professional Background: Professor Andrew Samuels

Jungian Analyst, Professor of Analytical Psychology

Andrew Samuels is a political activist and consultant, university professor, writer and Jungian analyst. He has a long track record in what has become ecopsychology, publishing his first article on it in 1989. He has published many books that have been translated into 19 languages, including ‘The Political Psyche’ and ‘Politics on the Couch’.

Email: andrew@andrewsamuels.net

Website: http://www.andrewsamuels.com

Recommended links: www.andrewsamuels.com

Our Presenters

Professor Andrew Samuels: The Trick of Change: Can Artifice Save Nature?

Catrina Pickering: Frames, Values and Social Change

Chris Goodall: Introducing 'The Age of Stupid'

Chris Smith: Story Telling: "Hot Story"

Cliff Jordan: Car Clubs in Oxford

Colin Tudge: Feeding People is Easy and the Campaign for Real Farming

Francis Blake: The Future of Food Production

Dr Ian Tennant: Thinking Globally – Acting Locally!

Jens Soth: Re-Making the Way we Make Things: Cradle-to-Cradle Production Cycles

Jens Soth: Shrinking Earth - an Outlook on the Future of Agricultural Commodities

Jesus Escalona: Aquarium - Art workshop for children

Dr Julia Wright: Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity: how Cuba coped and what can we learn from this?

Klaus Elle: Creativity - the infinitely renewable resource

Lois Muddiman: Art Workshop for Children - Collage

Margaret & Anthony Landale: Poetry of mindfulness

Marie-Eve Leduc: Conversations with the Earth

Mark Luntley: Westmill Wind Farm

Mark Lynas: The Recent Evidence for Climate Change

Michael Soth: People Skills for the 21st Century

Miranda Miller: Art Workshop for Children - Puppets

Morit Heitzler: Healing Individual & Collective Trauma

Naresh Giangrande: The Keys to a Sustainable Tomorrow- Today!

Nick Totton: What is Ecopsychology ?

Paola Sassi: Sustainable Architecture & Eco-Houses

Phil Pritchard: Permaculture - Working and Designing with Nature

Dr Rajat Gupta: Carbon Reduction from Existing Housing: a GIS-based Approach

Sheila Parry: How to Make a Good Compost Heap

Suzette Clough & Shoshi Asheri: Introduction to Visual Medicine™

Sim FlyingBikeShed: Bicycle Maintenance for Teenagers (& Everyone)

Simon Pratt: Active Travel & Low Carbon Transport

Stephen Bond: Earth Rover 1

Sue Gerhardt: Sustainable People

Artist Ted Dewan: The DIY Street

Thom Osborn: Facile ? - Facilitating the Ecology of Human Organisations

Vicky Hirsch: Art Workshop for Children – Fabric Flowers