BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-16@visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251017T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251017T153000 DTSTAMP:20251017T145507Z URL:https://visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speaker-series-with- christine-berry/ SUMMARY:Speaker Series with Christine Berry DESCRIPTION:\nOurs: Reclaiming ownership of what matters. 17 October\, 14.0 0-15.30 (CEST)\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdD_qwf2xc\n\n\n\ n\nAbout the session: Join Christine Berry and Caleb Althorpe for a conve rsation about what a democratic economy might mean\, and how we might go a bout building it together.  \n\n\n\nChristine's forthcoming book will ma ke the case that the ‘winners’ in the UK and global economy tend to am ass wealth by owning things\, rather than by doing things. As the economy has been oriented around the interests of these ‘landlords’ (both lite ral and metaphorical)\, we ourselves have become dependent on them to go a bout our daily lives. If we want to achieve good lives for all within ecol ogical limits\, we urgently need to reclaim control through democratic own ership solutions which put meeting human needs ahead of extracting rent.\n \n\n\nBy telling the stories of people already working to do this – from community land trusts to fan-owned football clubs\, childcare co-ops to g lobal knowledge networks – the book will paint a picture of what a democ ratically owned economy might look like. But it will also seriously engage with the challenges of scaling these solutions\, arguing that only a new social contract between state and community can hope to displace the power of the landlords and build an economy fit for us to live in.\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: \;Christine Berry is a writer\, thinker and changemaker based in Manchester. She has been described by the Guardian as “one of t he central figures” in the new economics\, and her work has also been co vered by the Economist\, the Financial Times and various other major newsp apers. Christine’s recent work has focussed on how we can build a more d emocratic economy\, and in particular on the need to democratise ownership . \;She is currently working on her first solo book\, published by Ver so and provisionally titled Owned: How our lives became assets (and how to reclaim them). She has previously served as Principal Director of Policy and Government at the New Economics Foundation\, and as a trustee of the c harities Rethinking Economics and the Finance Innovation Lab.\n\n\n\nTo re gister for this online event\, please use this registration form.\n\n\n\nA ny additional questions about the Vision Speaker Series\, please email Cat arina Neves at a.c.moiteirodasneves@uu.nl. \;\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR