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Development, Sustainability and Environment
Session Outlines
Morning:
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11.00am Flush it and see!
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Chair: David O'Toole, The Great Debate
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What are the issues surrounding water resources and how they should be managed?
Challenging new documentary
Flush it!
will be shown
followed by a debate. A panel including
the film's producer will discuss issues raised by the film
and participants will be given plenty of opportunity to
ask questions and make points from the floor.
Watery but never wet, this compelling documentary
promises to put aspirations for Western levels of
water provision and sanitation on the map for
developing countries.
The film interweaves range of people's concerns
about local water shortages, global water scarcity
and the history of the flush toilet with aspirations for grand projects
and excellent loos for developed and developing world alike.
Eritrean refugee Tiba is at the
centre of the film. Pontificating from her own bath
full of bubbles Tiba considers everything from
depleted aquifers to desalination to Livingstone's
plea not to flush. Tiba's wet dream informs us pit
latrines stink, while experts help flush the crap
and remind us that water can never run out.
The documentary includes witness testimony
from Dr Caspar Hewett, water engineer;
James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting
and Innovation at De Montfort University;
Angela Lee, Exhibition Curator, Gladstone Toilet Museum;
Terry Woolliscroft, Customer Manager, Twyford Bathrooms;
James Heartfield, writer and lecturer;
Robin Oakley, Senior Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace UK;
Tony Rachwal, Thames Water Research & Development Director.
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Afternoon:
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1:30pm Climate change:
convenient untruths, unacceptable messages?
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Chair: Nathalie Rothschild, commissioning editor,
spiked-online
Documentary films about environmental and political issues have become
very popular in recent years. Many of these films mix fact with fiction,
education with entertainment, and documentation with opinion.
They are intended not simply to inform, but try to persuade us to
change our opinions and attitudes, or even inspire us to act.
This debate will focus on some recent films about climate
change that have caused a storm and will ask some
serious questions about the role of documentary making
in influencing opinion. What should or shouldn't
film makers say and do? Are films that question the
scientific consensus acceptable? How are we, as viewers,
to separate fact from fiction?
Speakers
Kate Manzo, Newcastle University
Alex Lockwood, Sunderland University
Ceri Dingle - Director of WORLDwrite
and Chew on it Productions
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3.30pm Don't Shout at the Telly North East
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Sponsored by ESRC
FREE
This afternoon workshop will encourage
participants to take a critical look behind the
headlines and prepare a segment for the online programme
WORLDbytes,
some working in front of the camera, some behind it.
The crew are:
Ceri Dingle - Director of WORLDwrite
and Chew on it Productions
Ian Foster -
Director of Cinematography, WORLDwrite and
Chew on it Productions
Andrew Hirst - Camera,
WORLDwrite and Chew on it Productions
Viv Regan - Producer, WORLDwrite and
Chew on it Productions
This workshop is part of
The Great Debate schools programme
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3.30pm Activism in the noughties
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This session will explore what it means to be ‘active’
today and what difficulties an activist persona
throws up in engaging with people.
Introduced by Alison Neilson, author
Disrupting
Privilige, Identity, and Meaning: A Reflective Dance of
Environmental Education with
Paul
Chatterton, Leeds University,
Hilaire Agnama,
Teesside
One World Centre, and
Bill Colwell, Atlantic Pictures
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