Learning events

Events

Connect directly with the people and places making change. Join our walking tours and study trips.

Walk away with:

Understanding

Connect theory to reality, focusing on the skills and competences that accelerate change:

Transformative green skills
Green life skills
Sustainability competences

Inspiration

Examples of real-world contexts where collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and new forms of leadership are driving progress in:

Addressing fast changing regulations
Addressing skills and talent gaps
Informing and influencing policy

Exchange

Connections between professionals from industry, advocacy, policy, education and community initiatives:

unlock innovation and spark new ideas
hear how green skills agendas meet other real-world contexts
exchange and collaborate for systemic change

Group of people taking a guided tour in an industrial food production space

Autumn Edition: Scaling Change

Our learning events are opportunities to connect to (and between) the people and places making change. From industrial locations to places of production, join walking tours for inspiration and study tours for a deeper exploration of the skills needed for systemic transformation on the ground.

We’re working on dates and timings for our Autumn Edition! Register your interest (no commitment) to help shape the collection and be the first to know when we go live 🚀

First Hand Autumn Edition: Scaling Change

Skills Briefing (Online)

A 45-min primer for insights on our Spring Season curriculum

Coming soon

Nighttime activity at the wholesale market

First Hand: Food Market Ecosystem

Food Systems Walking Tour

Collaboration and Leadership: a night time wholesale market experience

First Hand: Energy Recovery Facility

Materials Systems Walking Tour

Collaboration & Complexity at an urban waste to heat and power plant

First Hand: A Tideway Itinenary

Materials Systems Boat Tour

Complexity and Leadership: large scale infrastructure project

First Hand Autumn Edition: Scaling Change

Learning Debrief (Online)

A 45-min closing session to catch up or consolidate your learning

Coming soon

First Hand Autumn Edition: Scaling Change

Series of 5 learning events

The full series: online briefing/debrief and 3 walking tours

Coming soon

First Hand: Orkney Islands

Material Systems Study Trip

Systemic energy transition in Orkney

September 2025 – 3 days

This trip will only go ahead with at least 10 people. Want to join? Register your interest below!

European city Seen-From-the-Forested-Natural-Park

First Hand: European Food Innovation Hub

Food Systems Study Trip

Transforming the food system in a European capital

October 2025 – 3 days

This trip will only go ahead with at least 10 people. Want to join? Register your interest below!

First Hand: Materials Heritage in the Midlands

Material Systems Study Trip

Creativity, Complexity and Leadership in the birthplace of the industrial revolution

Autumn 2025 – 1.5 days

This trip will only go ahead with at least 10 people. Want to join? Register your interest below!

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Past events

Spring Edition: Prototyping Alternatives

Our Spring Edition examined the specific skills needed to imagine alternatives and make them real, from the vision of a repair based economy in North London to the, at the time unimaginable, industrial futures of the 19th and 20th centuries and the reinvention required in their wake.