Brain Food

Radical thought harvest on site

To guide you through the mental maze we our proud to welcome back Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler Magazine. He will be bringing his Idler Academy and teaching us the joys of how to live an idle life full of pleasure and philosophy. Workshops include Ancient Greek for beginners, Calligraphy and grammar lessons.

'The Future is Beautiful,' this is the belief of Futerra, a brilliant group of visionaries, who have spent a decade communicating sustainability to the world. Join them in their Emporium of Invaluable Insights: capturing and harvesting the revelations, observations and moments of clarity that festival-goers experience. They have one outcome firmly in their minds- to leave the festival with a tangible set of actions that people can take away to ensure that the future is indeed beautiful!

Does anyone understand how to save our economy? Well to help us to get some insight we have invited the N.E.F (the new economics foundation) an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being, to come and share their knowledge and expertise in this area.
The N.E.F are unique in combining rigorous analysis and policy debate with practical solutions on the ground, often run and designed with the help of local people. They also create new ways of measuring progress towards increased well-being and environmental sustainability.