{"title": "Against fire and ICE: the lifehouse as community defence", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate", "society/activism"], "description": "An in-person public lecture at LSE's Thai Theatre in the Cheng Kin Ku Building, examining how communities can prepare for interlocking crises such as climate emergency and authoritarian rule. It is hosted by LSE's Department of Sociology and chaired by Dr David Madden, with Adam Greenfield speaking and Gargi Bhattacharyya and Dubravka Sekulić as discussants. The talk explores the idea of the lifehouse: how measures that defend a neighbourhood against climate collapse, like cooling rooms and communications networks, can also help it survive hostile authorities, and how such collective capacity can be made durable. It runs from 6.30pm to 8pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/against-fire-and-ice-the-lifehouse-as-community-defence-131230/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/events/2026/fire-and-ice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0c5e2a165b111b16d3daafa0663e0613ddfb68f15ded851ee9d00283e44e7ae-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Built Environment", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "nature/environment"], "description": "\"The Built Environment\" is a public talk on flooding, drought and saving trees, part of the \"Our Eco Crisis\" series at North Kensington Library. It is hosted by Isis Amlak, a long-time local activist and campaigner for racial and social justice who sits on the board of the Octavia Foundation. Guests will speak about new development changes in the area and their effects, with recent local flooding that closed the Children's Library and the loss of mature plane trees in Holland Park among the concerns. The event will be live streamed to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-built-environment-37424/", "official_url": "https://northkensingtonlibrary.org/our-library-saved-event/the-built-environment/152", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a718205f705167b151f3b04b28dcc4af07bd9fca2e5be07794306ca42231359-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Polisonics: Community Listening in Action", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "Free, booking essential", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "society/activism"], "description": "A listening session exploring how sound and collective listening can reshape paradigms, challenge systemic inequalities, build communities and resist structural injustice. It is convened by Matt Lewis and Cecilia Wee of the Royal College of Art and facilitated by activist, academic and Migrant Champion for Hackney Manal Massalha, drawing on themes from the book Polisonics: Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound. Working with Radio Alhara, Radio Monteaudio and Grenfell impacted communities and members of the Grenfell Health and Well Being Service, the session features a series of sonic responses followed by discussion with audience members and contributors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/polisonics-community-listening-in-action-39708/", "official_url": "https://theshowroom.org/events/polisonics-community-listening-in-action", "image": ""}, {"title": "DIY Learning Hub", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T12:00:00Z", "place": "Somers Town Community Centre", "address": "Ossulston Street 150, NW1 1EE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["nature/climate", "diy"], "description": "DIY Learning Hub is a regular gathering at the STCA Upstairs Open Space at the Somers Town Community Association. It is tagged around climate, climate resilience, DIY, homemade and natural themes, and is connected to the Somers Town Community Association and The Living Centre. For more information, interested people can contact the organisers by email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/diy-learning-hub-42044/", "official_url": "https://www.somerstown.org.uk/events/learning-hub/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a3953b3a669db5bfc7d4d0006d4a10aa190c081c32f3efb582d6abf3d77b07c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Peoples Emergency Briefing", "start": "2026-11-18T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate/climate-change"], "description": "The Peoples Emergency Briefing is a short, accessible and humanised summary of November 2025's National Emergency Briefing, which brought together leading experts to present the latest evidence on the climate and nature crisis to politicians and other influential people in Westminster. It is a screening and discussion event, asking people to get informed, connected and activated together. It is hosted by Cooperation Town Big Penny, a food co-operative operating out of Big Penny Social, together with The Hornbeam. Free entry.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peoples-emergency-briefing-103754/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/peoples-emergency-briefing", "image": ""}, {"title": "Socialism or Extinction: Marxism & Ecology", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T19:15:00Z", "place": "Room 119, Sir Alexander Fleming Building", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/marxism", "nature/climate"], "description": "An open meeting discussing the climate crisis and what a movement to fight it needs to look like. It is run by the student group Socialist Worker at Imperial College Union. The discussion asks how to channel despair over heatwaves, floods and failing climate politics into action, and draws lessons from the global climate strike of 2019. It is interwoven with questions of racism, imperialism and the rise of the far right.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/socialism-or-extinction-marxism-ecology-129516/", "official_url": "https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/whats-on/events/student-group/12561", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f10f7e0a9309aa2eb0be765fbca9a3a21d3844ec50825fce4e1905c9d67b7826-1200.webp"}]}