People’s Emergency Briefing Screening
Society Building is hosting a built environment screening series of the People’s Emergency Briefing, bringing together policy, finance and design audiences to explore their role in responding to the climate and nature emergency. The film is based on the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster (featured by ITV, Channel 4 and The Times) with appearances from Chris Packham, Deborah Meaden, and a range of voices from across the UK.
Hosted by Georgia Elliott-Smith of Elliott Wood, each screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion on turning awareness into action.
The places, buildings and infrastructure we shape are central to how communities reduce emissions, adapt to change, protect nature and build resilience. The UK faces a growing climate and nature emergency, yet most people have never been fully briefed on what it means for our lives, our economy and our future. People’s Emergency Briefing’s sets out the risks facing the nation — and the credible, positive responses available — in a clear and accessible account designed for screenings across the UK.
Upcoming Events
1) Open screening for the built environment community
25 June, 18:00
This screening is open to anyone interested in the role of the built environment in responding to the climate and nature emergency. Followed by an open forum, we’ll explore how the places, buildings and infrastructure around us can help communities reduce emissions, adapt to change, protect nature and build resilience — and what each of us can do to turn awareness into action.
2) Policy screening
8 Sept, 18:00
Register your interest to this invite-only screening for people and organisations with significant experience shaping the conditions for change in the built environment: local authorities, public-sector leaders and planning voices. Followed by an open forum, we’ll explore how policy, public investment and civic leadership can help turn concern into direction, direction into decisions and decisions into real change.
3) Finance screening
24 Sept, 18:00
Register your interest to this invite-only screening for those with significant experience shaping what gets funded, insured, valued and renewed in the built environment: investors, lenders, insurers, developers and asset owners. Followed by an open forum, we’ll explore how finance, insurance and investment can move climate action from aspiration to capital allocation.
4) Design screening
7 Oct, 18:00
Register your interest to this invite-only screening for the people and organisations with significant experience turning ambition into reality in the built environment: engineers, architects, designers, project managers, contractors and asset operators. Followed by an open forum, we’ll explore how engineering and design can become the source of innovation the climate crisis demands — empowering the solutions of the future.