Learning Methods

Collaborative Learning and Action Learning are some of the methods employed by Open Platform.

Opportunities

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Hamilton House - Coexist - Various Projects

Hamilton House at the heart of Stokes Croft in Bristol is home to Coexist, where art, music, enterprise and innovation cluster as a community rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow...

Gridlights

The concept of Gridlights includes a traffic light-like device which informs the general public about the real-time electricity demand on the national grid. It offers a way of democratising the managment of the electricity generation network by inviting the public to participate by altering their electricity usage patterns.

Open Platform

This Open Platform programme provides a ‘home’ for people in transition looking to develop a future career, project in the field of sustainable change/development.

Ecoshow - Project Evaluation

Ecoshow is a project that links grass-roots organisations and groups working on carbon reduction projects with environmental arts practitioners with the aim of engaging and inspiring the wider Bristol community.

The Changing Minds Guide

The Changing Minds Project is writing a booklet with the desire to open peoples' minds to new ways of thinking about the world. The project aims to show the importance of reducing our impact upon the environment but also the aspects of culture and society that will need examining if this change is going to happen.

News and Events

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23/02/2010

Open Platform Annual Meeting

We would greatly appreciate the attendance of Open Platform participants at our Annual Meeting. This will provide an opportunity to collectively review the programme, to discuss our current plans for the future and to identify ways of improving it.

09/02/2010

Global Neighbours Workshop

This workshop will cover the way that the Institute’s work integrates and feeds into Global Neighbours, it will inquiry into possible ways to develop our ambitions to use systems thinking to help other groups.

02/02/2010

Endangered T-shirts Workshop

Nick Bartelot will be running another endangered t-shirts workshop, exploring the importance of diversity on the planet and demonstrating it by designing and creating our own Endangered T-shirt.

Links

Open Platform is run jointly by the Schumacher Institute and the Schumacher Society

The Schumacher Institute

The Schumacher Society