an update of sorts.
Just wanted to make a short note here, to register some observations and give a sense of progress with this.
So firstly, it seems setting up meets ups wasn’t the best idea logistically - since the visits to cities have been so short and at a such a fast pace, it’s added quite an overhead to planning that has yet to bare fruit. It’s likely though that where there’s an established network, like Berlin and London, it makes sense - so please share the schedule and alert friends.
Having made this observation, someone (I forget who) made a very clever suggestion, we should just be turning up at other people’s Meet Ups that could be relevant to the issues at hand. This seems to be quite a reasonable tactic.
Another observation is that August isn’t the best month to try and meet up with people - especially in Italy.
As for travel, @Lauren has been city hopping at speed, we just had a short gchat and it seems she’s met some interesting people - recorded a few interviews and acquired a long list of relevant projects to follow up on. I’ll let her though fill in the details.
This morning I had a very small meetup in Drop Coffee, Stockholm, what struck me though was that if you’re asking the right questions with just one or two people it can still be hugely productive - perhaps more so than a big group speaking together. This morning I interviewed an expert in Urban Farming, which I’ll have a full write up on before the end of the week.
Okay, I think that’s it for now - this is more a reference point for myself to come back to later 