Place-based systems change: re-situating participatory practice through power, people, and place

This event is now fully booked.

You can email events@rgs.org to be added to the waiting list should a space become available.

This one-day workshop explores systems change as a relational, place-based and evolving practice, rather than as a fixed set of methods or guidelines that can be followed.

At a time when participation is increasingly institutionalised, formalised, and instrumentalised, the event asks: what does it mean to work in participatory ways that are genuinely responsive to power, people, and place? This inquiry aims to centre themes of temporality, participation as relational work and power relations in systems change.

We aim to create spaces for reflexive inquiry, collective sense-making and meaningful connections around this question, inviting those working within, across and between research, practice and policy systems change work.

This one day symposium is designed for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and activists working within place-based and participatory work from all realms of inquiry.

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Making a booking

• Advance booking for this event is required. In order to book you will need an account on our website. If you already have an account you will be prompted to log in when you click 'book now'. Please create an account if you do not have one yet (you do not need to be a member of the Society to create an account).
• Due to the administration involved, we are unable to provide invoices for this event. Payment must be taken at the time of booking.
• We do not issue tickets (electronic or physical) for this event. Instead your name will be on a list at the door.
• The ticket price is £25 and includes lunch, tea, coffee and zine material. 
• Five £50 travel bursaries will be offered, awarded according to need. Please contact Tatiana Bodnar (t.f.c.bodnar@swansea.ac.uk) and Alice Lawrence (al988@cam.ac.uk) for more info.

Accessibility at our events

We want everyone to feel welcome at our events. Key accessibility features of this event include:

• Step-free access to the event
• Accessible toilets
• Assistance dogs are welcome
• Hearing loop

For full details, please visit our accessibility page. If you have any questions or specific access requirements, feel free to get in touch with us on access@rgs.org