A conversation between Imre Szeman (Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, University of Alberta), Werner Hofer (Director, Stevenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool) and Noura Al Sayeh (Architect) at the Future City Forum, 27 September 2013 in Liverpool.

Bringing together a leading local scientist on renewable energy with an expert on the cultural politics of oil and moderated by an architect, this sessions examines the tensions between our contemporary material conditions and social behaviours, and explores what the relationship should be between our social imaginaries and energy.

Part of Future City, a collaborative project between Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and Liverpool Biennial for Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture.