PLATFORM - working across disciplines for social and ecological justice

PLATFORM works across disciplines for social and ecological justice. It combines the transformatory power of art with the tangible goals of campaigning, the rigour of in-depth research with the vision to promote alternative futures.

about PLATFORM

current projects

unravelling the carbon web

remember saro-wiwa

education & outreach

projects in development

desk killer

museum of the corporation

publications

on oil corporations

on art, process & education

archive & theory

past projects

underlying themes

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Current Projects
	Unravelling the Carbon Web Research, advocacy and public education on oil corporations; with a particular focus on Iraq, the former Soviet Union and Nigeria.
	Remember Saro-Wiwa Creating a living memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian writer and activist who was executed in 1995 for highlighting the impact of oil companies in the Niger Delta.
	Education & Outreach Inspiring creativity, empowering activism, developing pedagogical practice – courses, lectures, performances, workshops.
Projects in Development
	The Desk Killer By shining a light into the world of the bureaucrats, planners and businessmen who contributed to the Holocaust, The Desk Killer raises critical questions as to whether the psychology and behaviour that enabled genocide to occur then, exists in the institutional culture of transnational corporations today.
	Museum of the Corporation The Museum of the Corporation is a proposal for an open space where people can debate one of today's most powerful influences on social and ecological justice in daily life and global politics, the transnational corporation.

Sister Organisation
	SEA-Renue PLATFORM established Renue as a community renewable energy initiative, in 1996. It has now merged with Sustainable Energy Action to form SEA-Renue, working with businesses, local authorities, schools and the wider community to deliver practical and affordable solutions to London's environmental challenges.
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News

27 July 06 - 6.30 to 8.30pm: Watch out for PLATFORM in "The Interruptors"
a performed interrogation of socially engaged art practice curated by Gavin Wade, Whitechapel Art Gallery

5 July 06:
Sound art Commission for walking project with PLATFORM
PLATFORM is looking to commission a sound artist/composer/sonic sculptor to work on a project that critically maps the effects of climate catastrophe and peak oil within London's finacial district. More info

4 July 06:
Former British Foreign Minister helped oil giants with Iraq contracts
Dramatic new evidence has been released of high-level lobbying for Iraqi oil contracts, on behalf of companies BHP Billiton and Shell. More info

26 June 06:
Analysis on Iraq oil policy
Iraq's new Oil Minister is drafting an oil law, to open the country's oil industry to multinational companies for the first time in more than 30 years. PLATFORM is working with the website niqash.org to produce a series of articles - in Arabic, Kurdish and English - examining current developments. More info

15 June 06 - 2pm: Remember Saro-Wiwa and Gog & Magog at PSi12 Conference, London
"What can performance do for human rights and what can human rights do for performance" More Info

11 June to 24 June 06: Remember Saro-Wiwa in Art Not Oil 2006
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26 May 06: BTC Pipeline Demonstration
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24 May 06 - 6 to 8pm: Art Activism and the Community
A panel discussion which includes the project Remember Saro-Wiwa. Whitechapel Art Gallery, places free but must be booked from More Info

23 May 06: Debate on Iraq at the London School of Economics
PLATFORM's Greg Muttitt to speak on a panel discussing the occupation's economic goals. More Info

Jan 2006: Research paper Turbo-charging investor sovereignty - Investment agreements and corporate colonialism

22 Nov 2005: New Report Crude Designs: the rip-off of Iraq's Oil Wealth

10 Nov 2005: Remember Saro-Wiwa Living Memorial Winners Announced

03 Nov 2005: Book Publication The Next Gulf: London, Washington & Oil Conflict in Nigeria