Join us at our home in Brixton for a hands-on design day: creating new ways to learn that are fast, open and connected to real places and projects like your own.
First Hand Design Day will bring together changemakers from local government, local business, place stewards, education and community networks who are driving climate, skills and social value agendas on the ground.
What we’ll do:
- Explore learning as infrastructure for change: why it’s missing, and how we can build it.
- Hear examples from practice: across real-world, local initiatives in circular economy, food, energy, and retrofit.
- Unpack the toolkit: how to shape place-based, hands-on, collaborative learning from open days to secondments.
- Address a shared challenge: what’s our blueprint for learning as a critical infrastructure for accelerating climate skills and action?
You’ll leave with:
- Clarity on our collective learning and skills challenge and how you might address it
- Real examples of learning formats and models that are working now for your peers
- New ideas to test in your organisation, sector, discipline or neighbourhood
- Connections with other changemakers who are building capacity for sustainable futures.
Full itinerary, speakers, contributors and workshops TBC. Expect a half-day of panels, peer exchange, hands-on workshops and collaborative sessions (with optional pre-meet/Brixton-based First Hand walking tour and post-drinks).
This is our final event of 2025: a chance to connect the threads of two years’ research, prototyping, and delivery, and to shape what comes next. Join us!
