“The 2017 ‘Building a New Economy for Australia’ is being held from 1-3 September 2017 in Brisbane.  The 2017 New Economy Conference will:

• Bring together hundreds of people and organisations interested in moving beyond the current unjust and unsustainable economic system that currently dominates Australian society
• Enable people to share, learn, listen, play, and work together to co-create a strong, vibrant economic system that’s fair for all Australians and cares for our precious natural environment
• Launch a New Economy Network/Coalition for Australia
• Launch powerful new collective strategies for creating positive social and economic change, to achieve long term, liveable economies that fit within the productive capacity of a healthy environment

We invite all prospective participants to be creative with your proposals. The program will be an exciting mix of sessions, crafted to focus on the conference’s guiding theme: how do we inspire and build a new economy in Australian society?

TOPICS FOR PROPOSALS – can include, but are not limited to:

• Indigenous economics – First Nations Peoples initiatives and projects
• Ecological economics – sustainability, degrowth, ecological limits and the steady state
• Ecologically focussed local economic initiatives including restoration, rehabilitation and eco-tourism
• Population issues in the New Economy
• Consumption, production, sharing, ‘making’, remaking and repairs
• Distributed manufacturing – re-localised production to support community economies
• Platform cooperatives, blockchain and community asset sharing
• Feminism and the new economy
• Food and food systems in the new economy
• Law in the new economy – regulation, governance, legal services for the New Economy
• Diverse forms of ownership – including the commons, cooperatives and community ownership
• The future of work – labour, unions, work-life balance
• Money, finance and alternative currencies
• Energy – community energy, renewable energy, distributed systems
• Post-extractivism – economics beyond large scale mining and resource extraction
• Communication about new economies
• Advocacy, organising and creating social change to build the new economy
• Subjective experience and the role of our inner life in building a sustainable economy
• Mapping tools for the new economy
• Research methods and projects that support the new economy
• International perspectives and initiatives

 PARTICIPATION OPTIONS

• Academic papers (PhD students and Early Career Researchers are encouraged) – 15 minute presentations
• Practitioner papers – 15 minute presentations
• Panel discussions and facilitated workshops – 20 to 50 minutes
• Problem solving clinics, training, professional development – up to 50 minutes
• New Economy Lab – propose an experiment to conduct with willing participants (e.g. it could be about currencies / sharing systems, etc.), before, during, or after the conference, and use a 50 min conference session to review it or start it
• New Economy Change Projects – 50 minute sessions for those who want to propose specific social change projects and who intend to continue these projects after the conference (and stay connected to the New Economy Network)
• Discussion groups, arts projects, debates, working group meetings – 50 minutes
• Facilitated games – 30 to 50 minutes
• Short performances, creative interludes or interventions – 5 to 10 minutes
• Posters

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATION

• CLICK HERE to download the Proposal Template
• EMAIL YOUR COMPLETED PROPOSAL by 12th June 2017  – email: neweconomy@earthlaws.org.au“