How can we build community and organize in the midst of sustainability crises? What are the most promising alternatives to the dominant sustainability transition discourses, and how can we create a deeper understanding of how these discourses are put into practice? What are the areas or fields where radical change is needed? What are your visions of possible post-fossil and post-capitalist futures or alternative sustainabilities? What makes the change possible? How do we build a strategic network and mobilize others? You can participate by preparing a presentation of up to ten minutes to share your ideas, joining open space workshops to connect with other interested people, or simply attending for fun! We welcome academics, artists, NGOs, social movements, and anyone interested in participating in discussions about critical sustainabilities.
Tipping Point 2025 – Critical Sustainabilities
What? Open, free- of- charge unconference and workshop to discuss critical sustainabilities and find new connections and even alliances for action.
When? Tue 30.9.2025 at 9:30 – 16:30 + after party!
Where? Tekstin talo (House of text), Permantosali (entrance via Bar Typo), Lintulahdenkatu 3, Sörnäinen, Helsinki
Price: 0 € (coffee and lunch included)
How? Registration closed: we are at maximum capacity of the venue! You will receive a confirmation well before the event.
Programme:
9.30 Coffee served at the location
First part of the day: The plural-conceptual critical sustainability
10.00: Opening of the event (LOC)
10.10: Critical Town Square (presentations + activations)
11.50: Open discussion
12.20: Lunch + Viral Vegans Showcase
Second part of the day: The practical-collective critical sustainability
13.15: Opening of the afternoon part (Facilitators)
13.25: Roundtable presentations (4 tables 3 rounds)
14.15: Open Space Workshop begins
16.15: Closing the event
17.00-> After party starts at Bar Typo with Kasper Salonen, dj Kolektiv and dj LauraPop
CRITICAL TOWN SQUARE AND ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATIONS!
We will have numerous short presentations from academicians, artists, activists, independent researchers, entrepreneurs and all kinds of professionals and practitioners. Please see the list and schedule of confirmed speakers here. The document is updated as we receive more confirmations.
Participate in the Open space workshop (13:30–16:15)
“Open Space” is a technique for running meetings where the participants create and manage the agenda themselves. Participants agree on the areas of discussion that have importance for them and then take responsibility for facilitating the sessions. In the beginning of the workshop anyone can suggest the areas or fields where radical change is needed. Please think about a topic beforehand or get inspired by the critical town square presentations.
Join the after party (17:00–)
Tipping point: critical sustainabilities – afterparty with Kasper Salonen (live poetry), DJ Kolektiv, DJ LauraPop
30.09.2025 | 17:00 - 20:00, at Bar Typo, Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki
Kasper Salonen, MA (b. 1987) is a bilingual spoken word poet, translator, visual artist, and cultural organizer. His rhythmically exuberant poems in Finnish and English span diverse topics, leaning into metaphysical dreamscapes as well as issues of psychological welfare and metamodern, anti-capitalist societal commentary. Kasper’s voice contains arrays of emotion, always imbued with an unwavering hope and trust in compassionate human resilience, ecological belonging, and the salvation of the imagination. His performance at the Critical Sustainability afterparty will feature descriptions of personal journeys, empowering collective visions, and a firm stance against all war, propaganda, and genocide. Kasper will also read from his new work of English translations, ”Unspoken Words: Selected Poems of Arto Melleri” (Enostone 2025).
DJ Kolektiv is a group of djs from Finland and Africa. Created in 2023, we have performed in private and public events in Lapland and Southern Finland. We bring to you a blend of African music, pop, old timers, and good vibes for the autumn.
DJ LauraPop plays pop, basic music for basic bishes. She produces the hit club night Dancegender and demands to be taken seriously in the bass music scene under the producer-DJ name Laua.
Free admission – Welcome everyone! Dance till you can’t dance no more!
The event is part of Tipping point: critical sustainabilities organized by a group of sustainability researchers from different universities, supported by HELSUS & Safer Climate
