It’s challenging, demanding and controversial. FX Talks! Speakers Simon Allford Joan Bakewell Tim Hunkin Michael Pawlyn TALKS Jonathon Porritt Monty Roberts WHERE Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old St, London EC1V 9LT WHEN Thursday 18 May 4pm — 9.30pm Presenter WEB fxtalks.co.uk Tom Dyckhoff FX Talks are produced by Compelo Compelo, a Progressive Media John Carpenter House Group company and the Carmelite Street publisher of FX and Blueprint London EC4Y 0AN designcurial.com It has been a great privilege to deliver this unconventional industry event after several years of dreaming about the concept, and thanks to our generous sponsors, we have been able to invite the best inspirational thinkers from both inside and outside our design circle. So often we are invited to worthy but dull conferences that are financially successful but without any real content. I wanted FX’s first stab in this direction to be different. Radically different. With ideas to stimulate, provoke and make us think differently, I’m hoping this will inspire all the great things to do with about living, and less to do with working. Much as we at FX write about your successful designs and projects, it is very often the ideas behind them that can be so energising and exciting. Very often it’s the concept ideas that are the most engaging that don’t come to fruition because of being too ambitious or too expensive. So instead of writing about them, I thought it would be a good forum to get together to collectively listen and, of course, gt down to some networking afterwards too. I’m lucky to meet some great people in my job, and as long as there’s interesting people in the world who are brave, independent thinkers with a radical vision, FX Talks will carry on talking. I hope you are inspired this evening – and enjoy the networking. I look forward to meeting you tonight. Theresa Dowling, Editor FX TIMETABLE 4pm Guests arrive. Welcome drinks 5pm Introduction by Tom Dyckhoff 5.10pm Simon Allford 5.25pm Monty Roberts (via video) 5.35pm Joan Bakewell 6pm INTERVAL with drinks and canapés 6.40pm Michael Pawlyn 7pm Tim Hunkin 7.15pm Jonathon Porritt 7.30pm Thanks by Tom Dyckhoff 7.35pm Networking with drinks and canapés 9.30pm Close CANAPÉ MENU Non-veggie options Thai smoked chicken and mango salad in a filo cup Peking duck pancakes Steak tartar on a spoon King prawn chilli, coriander and lime with herb mayo dip Marinated red peppers, anchovy and goat’s cheese blinis Veggie options Tomato and buratta bruschetta Tomato bruschetta Beetroot blini with pear and Gorgonzola MIni squash frittatas, pea puree and roasted tomato Roast aubergine in filo cup Dessert Salted caramel brownies The presenter of this FX Talks event is Tom Dyckhoff, a broadcaster and writer on architecture, cities and places. Tom presents the hit BBC2 series, The Great Interior Design Challenge, which is now in its fourth series in a prime-time slot of BBC2. He also presents the successful series, The Design Dimension (BBC Radio 4). He was previously architecture critic for BBC television’s arts programme, The Culture Show, for which he interviewed architects from Oscar Niemeyer to Frank Gehry, and fronted special-subject episodes including the Stirling Prize for Architecture and British architecture during the recession. Tom has written and presented many documentaries on British TV and radio, including The Secret Life of Buildings, I Love Carbuncles (Channel 4), Saving Britain’s Past (BBC2), and has also presented Radio 4 documentaries. Tom has written a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper’s Weekend magazine for more than a decade and, from 2003 to 2011, was architecture critic for The Times newspaper, London. He is also the architecture critic for the New Statesman. He has written widely for international publications, has taught at University College London and as a visiting critic at other universities, and hosts and chairs events, including The Stirling Prize 2009 and 2010. Tom’s first book – on architecture and cities since the Seventies – is due to be published this year. He is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, a trustee of the Architecture Foundation, and has been on the national shortlisting jury for the Stirling Prize for Architecture since 2008. TOM DYCKHOFF PRESENTER SPEAKER SIMON ALLfoRD Simon is a co-founder and director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, a Stirling Prize-winning architecture practice established in 1989. From AHMM’s base in Clerkenwell Simon leads a studio that works in London and internationally, engaging public and private clients in the exploration of a particular architecture’s potential to offer delight as well as utility. He works on a wide range of scales and, eschewing conventions of specialisation and particular uses, develops through his work the polemic for the ‘Universal Building’. He is working on large-scale urban regeneration projects and one-off buildings whose current programmes include cultural, commercial, residential and academic facilities. Notable recently completed projects include 61 Oxford Street, 240 Blackfriars Road, Chobham Academy in the Olympic village (where he also advised on the masterplan), the Angel, Tea and Yellow Buildings, the Saatchi and 176 Galleries, Adelaide Wharf, various research, amenity and academic buildings in Alconbury as well as student housing schemes at Camley Street and Westminster Bridge Road, London. Simon is chairman of the Architecture Foundation, a trustee of the Architecture Association Foundation, and a visiting professor at The Bartlett, UCL and GSD Harvard. He has taught, lectured and examined at many schools and was recently vice president for education at the RIBA and a chair of Design Review at CABE. Simon engages in the broader architectural discussion as a frequent writer, critic, teacher, competition juror, frequent lecturer, examiner, adviser and commentator. Monty Roberts’ radical thinking came about on the hills and plains of Nevada. The original Horse Whisperer was just a boy and tracking wild horses when he realised that the mustangs had their own way of communicating, which he later incorporated into his own non-violent horse training approach, called Join-Up. He came to worldwide notice when his method was documented in a BBC Panorama programme in the Eighties, when Monty persuaded a young mustang to wear a saddle and bridle and be ridden within a matter of hours. His radical thinking challenged 6,000 years of conventional horse training that used fear, pain and human domination, to beat the horse in to submission. His methods came to the notice of the Queen, who has adopted Monty’s approach for all her racehorses, and he is in universal demand for training all types of horses who are frightened in some way. Also in demand with corporate communication events, he uses the horse as a model and shares how more can be accomplished with mutual respect and cooperation than ever can be with dominance and aggression. Hundreds of executives from Disney, Merrill Lynch, Jaguar, John Deere and other major corporations have gathered at his ranch in California, experiencing Join-Up demonstrations and listening to these new philosophies in management. A passionate life-long advocate of non-violence, Monty’s ambition is to ‘leave the world a better place than I found it, for horses and for people too’. He will be taking part in FX Talks via video from California. MONty RoBERts SPEAKER pic of Monty Roberts to follow from TD SPEAKER JoaN BakEWELL Broadcaster and journalist Joan Bakewell presents radio and television programmes as diverse as Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year to Radio 4’s Inside the Ethics Committee. She also appears on The Daily Politics Show ( BBC2) , Saturday Live (Radio 4), Classic FM and LBC Radio. For many years she presented the Radio 3 series Belief. Joan’s particular areas of interest are the arts, religion, and old age. She was BBC television’s arts correspondent throughout the Eighties, and was later on the board of the National Theatre, the Aldeburgh Festival, and Friends of the Tate. She is currently chair of the theatre company Shared Experience, and also of the National Campaign for the Arts. Further broadcast credits include for Panorama (including Our Dirty Nation, Old, Drunk and Disorderly?, The Generation Game), Sky Arts ( two series of Portrait Artist of the Year and two series of Landscape Artist of the Year) and BBC Radio 4 documentaries (Suppose I Lose It and We Need To Talk About Death). The author of six books ,her latest is Stop the Clocks – Thoughts on What I Leave Behind, a series of essays on how the world has changed and all that she has lived through. She also writes for various national newspapers including The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph. In addition to being the Government-appointed Voice of Older People between 2008 and 2010, Joan was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the RTS Programme Awards 2016. Joan also chairs conferences and seminars and is a conference facilitator and after-dinner speaker. She has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad. Described as a pioneer of biomimicry, Michael Pawlyn established Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on designing high-performance buildings and solutions for the circular economy. Exploration Architecture has collaborated with numerous organisations demonstrating environmental leadership, including the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Interface, Lush and Biomimicry 3.8. In 2008 Exploration Architecture was shortlisted for the Young Architect of the Year Award and the internationally renowned Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Since then the company has developed a ground-breaking office project, an ultra-low energy data centre and a zero-waste textiles factory. Michael jointly initiated the widely acclaimed Sahara Forest Project, the first version of which was built in 2012 and opened by the Emir of Qatar during the Doha Climate Change talks.