Long Now London 2411 - Maintenance (LEGACY PLATFORM ANNOUNCEMENT)

If you are seeing this, it is likely because you started following Long Now London prior to 02023. In the last year we have been using other services to share our events (you can find more information on our website), but for this one we wanted to come back to Meetup to see if anyone actually saw this here. If you do see this here on Meetup, please do come and follow us elsewhere if you want to receive information about our ongoing activities.

Back at the RSA

​For the first time since 02019, Long Now London returns to the Royal Society of Arts. We will be taking over one room in Muse, the new ground floor cocktail bar at RSA House.​

Long Now London has been gathering in a variety of formats, locations and frequencies since 02008. Since 02018 we have met on the second Thursday of the month, usually in a pub, sometimes in a park, online when necessary.

Maintenance

​All are welcome, and there is no required pre-reading... but we do know that some people like to be pointed towards a particular topic or piece of media that might come up in discussion. This month we have (even more than usual) found ourselves particularly thinking and and talking about maintenance.

​Over recent years it has become clear that whatever our interests in various scales of the past and potential futures, one throughline for many of our regular members is a regular engagement with ideas and practices around maintenance. Alongside our monthly meetups, since 02019 we have made an annual practice of helping the National Trust maintain the White Horse of Uffington in Oxfordshire. You can find more about that here (a 5 minute video) or here (a 5 minute read).
​Our suggested reading for November is "The Maintenance Race", the first chapter of Stewart Brand's upcoming book "Maintenance: Of Everything". It's available as a seventh draft on the Books in Progress website. There are other chapters on there in various stages of revision. Many of us may want to read them all... but if all you've had time to do is read this event page... you definitely won't be the only one. :-)

Where
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Muse is the new cocktail bar in RSA House at 8 John Adam Street, just off the Strand in central London. The bar is on the ground floor. At the entrance you will likely have to give your name at reception. Please ask to be directed to Muse and/or to the Long Now London gathering.

Why

​Come for conversations about long-term thinking, deep time, art, futures, technology, maintenance, a wide range of -ologies and -isms depending on the crowd, and all kinds of attempts to think even just a little outside of the rapid fire frameworks encouraged by these accelerating times.

About Us

​Long Now London is a community of practice for long-term thinking. The group started in 02008 and has been meeting every month (usually in a pub) since 02018.

​We are an independent local group inspired by work of the Long Now Foundation and using their name with permission. We are in regular dialogue with other such groups around the world. If you would like to set up your own where you are, please do get in touch.