Lecture 2007
26th November at the Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Progress on a human scale:
prosperity, sustainability and quality of life
Matthew Taylor |
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Matthew Taylor became Chief Executive of the RSA in November 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister.
Matthew was appointed to the Labour Party in 1994 to establish Labour’s rebuttal operation. His activities before the Labour Party included being a county councillor, a parliamentary candidate, a university research fellow and the director of a unit monitoring policy in the health service. Until December 1998,Matthew was Assistant General Secretary for the Labour Party. During the 1997 General Election he was Labour’s Director of Policy and a member of the Party’s central election strategy team. He was the Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research between 1999 and 2003. Britain’s leading centre left think tank. During that time, the Institute tripled in size to become the largest independent public policy think tank in Europe.
He has written numerous articles, frequently appears on television and co-authored a book ‘What are children for?’ with his father, Laurie Taylor.
Robin Nicholson |
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Robin is a Senior Director of Edward Culliman Architects. He has worked on a range of health, education and regeneration projects in the UK and abroad since joining the practice in 1979. Previously he taught at the Bartlett and PNL and worked for James Stirling in London and Cristian Boza in Chile.
Robin was Vice-President of the RIBA (1992-1994), Chairman of the Construction Industry Council (1998-2000), a member of the Urban Sounding Board, the M4I Board (1998-2002) and the Egan Skills Task Force. Robin is a founder member of the Edge, the DQI Development Group and Chair of CABE’s enabling panel.
The RSA |
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The RSA has a distinguished history of progressive thought and action - from its earliest days, when the Society was involved in agriculture and drawings, through its contribution to the Great Exhibition, and now with its most recent initiatives which include: Tomorrow’s Company, which examined the role of business in a changing world; Opening Minds, a new competences-based curriculum; and Personal Carbon Trading, a research project looking at how each citizen might have a tradeable carbon allowance. It is currently engaged in a major change process to turn its 27,000- strong Fellowship into a vibrant network of civic innovation.
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Working with CABE and other partners, the lead-in to this year's lecture focused on a range of issues about the built environment. Two workshops were held this year in the lead up to the Cornwall Lecture on 26th November. The first was held in Exeter at the Met Office and addressed some of the issues that will affect the built environment in the future.
The second workshop was held at CPR Regeneration in Pool and sought to clarify issues regarding planning and development within a World Heritage Site inscribed for its mining heritage.