Between 2007 – 2016, SCT worked on projects to further the charity’s aims. Here is a flavour of past projects.
The People’s Hustings – piloted during the 2010 General Election this was designed to revitalise the receding tradition of face-to-face political engagement. On this occasion, it was the public, not the candidates, setting the agenda.
Speakers’ Corner at the British Library was a series of mini-debates held in the Poet’s Circle of the Library’s piazza during the 2013 exhibition Propaganda: Power and Persuasion.
Speakers’ Corner worked with partners to deliver two debates at the Being Human Festival 2014. Truth, Propaganda and Purpose was introduced by Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, and Truth, Lies and the Individual by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London.
Designing Speakers’ Corners was a collaboration with Central St Martins College of Art & Design to design a prototype speakers’ corner which was subsequently trialled at the Global Forum for Freedom of Expression in Oslo in 2009.
Speaking in Public is a film commissioned by SCT to show members of the public the tricks and techniques for engaging an audience. The Southbank Centre created ‘Speaking Out!', which provides a fifteen minute introduction to the basic skills needed to speak confidently and effectively in public.
Developing a Civil Society on the Internet was a joint project with the Oxford Internet Institute funded by Facebook. A one-day symposium in 2017 gathered subject experts from across a range of disciplines to start a wider debate about how to make the internet a more constructive and positive force for political participation and change.
The original SCT website has been archived with The British Library. To access the legacy site please link here
