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John Thackara
John Thackara is a philosopher, writer and curator. He curated the celebrated ‘Doors of Perception’ conference for twenty years, was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07 and the French design biennial City Eco Lab, and in 2019 curated the Urban-Rural expo in Shanghai. Since 2011, Thackara has curated workshops in twenty countries on the theme Pathways to Sustainability. He is a senior fellow at the Royal College of Art, visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, and Polimi in Milan, and curator of the Social Food Forum. His latest book, How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today (Thames and Hudson, 2015), has just been published in China.
Contact: 17 Grand Rue, 34190 Ganges, France.