Conversation Salon in INVI's Gule Gård: Can we drive big change in Denmark?

How do digital distractions, vanity, trickery and human error affect our ability to deal with wild problems? And how can design help solve them?

Sigge Winther Nielsen asks three authors with very different vantage points:

Journalist Alexander Rich Henningsen has written Mother Earth, an exotic management thriller about how bureaucracy and vanity transform a climate-neutral prestige building into a pitch-black construction project. Should we act, Henningsen asks, or does the transformative power really lie in doing nothing at all?  

Jakob Sorgenfri Kjær has written the book Look Up. He also subscribes to the idea that we should stop doing something - but it's something very specific. We need to put the phone away, look up and into each other's eyes instead. We need to relearn how to go deep and be thorough with what we do. It's important, not just for our well-being, but also for us to drive the big changes that our society demands.  

And what do we actually need to do to drive change? To answer this big question, Julie Hjort takes a seat on the stairs in INVI's Gule Gård. She is on her way with her book Navigating Societal Change Through Design. While Kjær and Henningsen use their imagination to focus on and be critical of the society we live in today, Julie Hjort takes the long view and talks about how we can navigate change.

This is an image from the show of hands that Sigge Winther Nielsen initiated during Den Gule Gård. Listen to the recording and find out what the show of hands was all about.