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On 3rd November 2009, the Institution of Civil Engineers launched a report entitled Aviation 2040, presenting four scenarios for the future of UK aviation and airport infrastructure, produced in collaboration with Arup and other industry experts. Arup's Foresight & Innovation team facilitated two day-long workshops which produced four futures for the aviation industry to the year 2040. The four scenarios are based on the key social, technical, economic, environmental and political (STEEP) fa… Continue

As a TEDGlobal sponsor we were invited to hold a workshop for forty TEDsters on the inaugural day of TEDGlobal 2009 at Keble College, Oxford. The interactive session was called “Drivers of Change” and was designed to help TEDsters collectively identify the most important trends and drivers shaping the world over the next 20 years. We were pleased to see how oversubscribed the event was. In the end some fifty participants took part from diverse backgrounds in academia and from the private and pub… Continue

I was at a Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership event last night, chaired by Will Day, Chair of the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission. One of the keynotes was given by Jim Cust, an economist and academic based at Oxford University. He founded an NGO called Bottom Billion which helps entrepreneurs in LDCs to connect with businesses in the developed world. He was talking about new models of business in less economically dev… Continue

The next AtAbrahams event is being held at Arup's offices at 8 Fitzroy St in London, on the 4th June at 7pm. The event will bring together people from the arts, sciences and business to discuss the nature of collaboration. It will be Chaired by Sophie Howarth, director of the School o… Continue