6.30-8.30pm

97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL (map)‍

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Writers Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence discussed their recent book Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis (2022), arguing that the systemic change we need hinges on a new era of democratic ownership.

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This event was part of Revision, a research and events programme that explored repair, collaboration and evaluation from 16 November 2022 - 1 February 2023.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Adrienne Buller is the Director of Research at Common Wealth. Buller’s writing and work has appeared in the Guardian, Jacobin, the New Statesman, New Left Review, and Financial Times, among others. She is co-author of Power and Property in an Age of Crisis (2022) with Mathew Lawrence, published by Verso Books, and The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism, (2022), published by Manchester University Press.

Mathew Lawrence is the founder and Director of Common Wealth, a UK-based think tank that designs ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy. Previously he was a senior research fellow on the Institute for Public Policy Research’s Commission on Economic Justice. He is co-author of Power and Property in an Age of Crisis (2022) with Adrienne Buller and A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown (2020) with Laurie Laybourn-Langton, both published by Verso Books.