Here we are - where to next?

Here we are - 13.8 billion years ago (or thereabouts) after the birth of the universe, with its billions of galaxies, each comprising billions of planets, including at least one that has the perfect conditions for rich, diverse life to flourish - our home planet Earth.

Here we are - 4.5 billion years later, having evolved from the same stardust, microbes, fungi, fish and apes, with the capacity for intuition, enchantment, awe and wonder. Our curiosity, ingenuity and intelligence enable us to look back in time to these abstract beginnings, through microscopes to ponder the very codes of life, and even the foresight to predict various aspects of our future, make beautiful music and fly to space.

Here we are - as beings of nature among at least 8.7million fellow species who have adapted to life on earth over 3.8billion years by upcycling everything, doing chemistry in water and mostly at room temperature without producing toxins or waste.

Here we are - having removed more than half the trees on the planet, exploded mountains for minerals to make stuff that pollutes the water we drink, the air we breathe and the soil and oceans that sustain us.

Here we are - in this decade which will determine whether we flourish or fail as a species, holding space between what was and what might be.

With no time to rush. So where do we go from here?

Bio

Trish Hansen is the Founding Principal of Urban Mind Studio.

As a strategist and systems designer in the fields of health, wellbeing, arts and culture, Trish works to enrich the creative and cultural life of people, places, neighbourhoods, and cities.
As a natural collaborator and complex systems thinker, Trish has provoked, pioneered, and managed social enterprises, projects, programs and quests in the tertiary adult and paediatric health, urban, arts and cultural sectors. Currently a Good Design Australia Ambassador, Fellow of the Centre for Conscious Design, Board Director of SALA Festival, and Director of Kindred Australia, as well as serving on other committees.

Alex Bruhn is a Sociology/Anthropology student with a keen interest in work and play in the construction of human identity.

As the Community Builder at Youth Inc., which is a new school for young people whose potential wasn't harnessed within conventional education, Alex co-facilitates the Unf*ck the World program; an ideas incubator for young people to connect with game-changers, address social problems and weaponize their own stories.

As an active member of the Adelaide Global Shapers Community (an initiative of the World Economic Forum), Alex works on community projects to re-imagine a better world.

Event

6:30pm @Cue Bar, 1st Floor, 140 - 144 The Parade, Norwood SA 5067

Also speaking at this location at 8:30pm is Tasha Stanton