We just love eking out the spicy hints of what will be in our upcoming masterclasses.
This one is particularly important so we need to make it super exciting, with cut through solutions.
You can help us!
We want to prod the bear of conservative well meaning engineers who take things too far, boring landscape designers and the rusted on habits of finance people who won’t treat green infrastructure with the same respect as they do our roads and bridges!
But first up – times are tough
Since we designed this masterclass, there’s been a federal budget, and businesses going to the wall on a daily basis, thanks to the soaring cost of living. Kylie Kwong’s eatery folded this week along with a string of others.
Big question is, how can we work together to pull each other up by the bootstraps?
Early bird extended
One way is to extend early bird prices for everyone until midnight Sunday, 2 June. So jump in now!
And, of course, our TFE members get the best deals! Sign up! (We think our work might be even more valuable in these tough times… just sayin’.)
But there’s more!
This is a media event, so it’s a great opportunity to do some “live journalism”.
It’s what we do!
So we’ve decided to extend the event by 15 minutes to offer you a chance to share you views up “on stage” and tell us how you see things in your patch. Because we can all learn from each other.
Your Andy Warhol moment
We’re calling it Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame* by TFE.
Andy Warhol and his famous “factory” in New York invited people to stare silently into a video camera, but our version will be the opposite.
We’re inviting you to speak out, as long as it’s short and snappy, and tell us:
- Why you are there
- What your business or work involves
- The outlook – what wins you hope for and what keeps you up at night
- Your message to industry and/or government
If you want to take part drop us a line events@thefifthestate.com.au
A clip for your socials
We’ll offer you a video clip of your contribution to use on your socials.
Maybe we’ll invite everyone on stage! You never know what will happen at this “sustainability factory”.
*The quote was apparently misattributed to Andy Warhol, but it stuck to his legacy. According to Wikipedia”
German art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh suggests that the core tenet of Warhol’s aesthetic, being “the systematic invalidation of the hierarchies of representational functions and techniques” of art, corresponds directly to the belief that the “hierarchy of subjects worthy to be represented will someday be abolished;” hence, anybody, and therefore “everybody,” can be famous once that hierarchy dissipates, “in the future,” and by logical extension of that, “in the future, everybody will be famous,” and not merely those individuals worthy of fame.[5]