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Breaking the Cycle: A Slow Journalism Night
The editors of slow journalism magazine Delayed Gratification host an evening which delves into some of the disruptive technologies and innovative designs that are challenging the status quo.
The world is full of cycles that need breaking, problems which are replicated year after year and generation after generation. But maybe things don’t have to be this way.
Breaking the Cycle brings together journalists, scientists and technology experts to discuss solutions to long-term problems both big and small.
The night is curated by the editors of Delayed Gratification, the Slow Journalism magazine. Since 2011, it has set out to mount a challenge to the ever-increasing speed of the digital news cycle, reporting on events long after the dust has settled and providing considered analysis instead of kneejerk reaction.
The publication’s editors pride themselves on finding stories of people, companies and technologies which promise to challenge received wisdom and disrupt negative trends. For this evening they plan to introduce some of the most interesting among them.
Booking information
Tickets include a free drink and entry to the Cycle Revolution exhibition before the talk begins. Doors will open at 18:15. The Cycle Revolution exhibition will be open for ticket holders to view between 18.15 and 19:00, and will then close. The talk will start at 19:00 and last for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- Adults £12/ Students £9/ Members £6 book tickets
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Philipp Boeing
Philipp Boeing wants to do for biotechnology what Raspberry Pi and Arduino have done for electronics and computing, making it accessible and affordable to all. As co-founder of Bento Lab, he’s helped create the world’s first easy-to-use, laptop-sized DNA laboratory. Boeing will tell us about his journey to date with Bento Lab – and what the future holds for citizen science.
Rob Orchard
The evening will be hosted by Rob Orchard, the co-founder and editorial director of Delayed Gratification magazine. The magazine was set up in 2011 to swim against the tide of digital news production and offer an antidote to the churnalism of the mainstream media. In revisiting the events of the preceding quarter, the magazine makes a virtue of being "Last to Breaking News".
Vidhi Doshi
Vidhi Doshi is a journalist and has written extensively about North Africa for Delayed Gratification. She’s going to tell us about the extraordinary week she spent on assignment for the magazine, tracking down and interviewing two former people smugglers, and give us a broader view of the ongoing design and cycle of people smuggling – and the plans to tackle it.
Sarah Gold
Sarah will tell us about her work as co-founder of WikiHouse Foundation, which makes it simple for everyone to design, print and assemble beautiful, low-energy homes. She’ll also talk about the new technologies which might help us keep hold of our data in the age of the Internet of Things.
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