RoundView

We had a fantastic class visit workshop with @TheRoundView at Little Hulton Library last week for #FestivalofLibraries. Using The Roundview toolkit, students got the chance to solve colourful puzzles that challenge the way we think about sustainability. roundview.org

Delighted to announce that The University of Manchester and RoundView are a finalist for an Educate North Award, in the categorty: The Sustainable Green Initiative, for Libraries as nodes for sustainability learning with @UNESCOUK & @MCRCityofLit #ENA2025

On International Multilingualism Day, we are delighted to share these videos of RoundView poems read in many different languages - youtube.com/playlist?list=… thanks to #UoMSciEng Better Worlds funding, @BritishAcademy_ & @ahrcpress & @ESRC funding! #multilingualismisnormal

We are at @TheMcrCollege, Openshaw campus, today with a stall for @CareersWeek Fantastic talking to aspiring engineers, health care workers, teachers and more about how sustainability relates to their careers. #NCW2025

It's official - we are the best library in the world 🌎 😀 Our fantastic visitors make our spaces so special - thanks for the lovely feedback.

We are in the fantastic Failsworth library, overlooking the canal and enjoying a free cup of tea! The RoubdView games are here all hakf-term week! Do come and solve the puzzles. Great to work with @OldhamLibraries @MCRCityofLit @UNESCOUK @UoMHumsImpact

🌍 Introducing Nature Solves 🌿 Powered by Oppla, Nature Solves is a new Instagram page that will raise awareness of how nature can solve challenges facing people and nature. The new account will spread awareness of #NatureBasedSolutions and share the latest insights from environmental science research.

Linked to @SDGoals pupils explored the connection between air and water resistance and renewable #CleanEnergy. Pupils explore the @UoMSciEng #HighVoltageLab to hear about #electricityproduction. @urencoglobal @officialUoM @GreatSciShare @GM_Science @LynneBianchi

Transformational change is urgent—and happening. In partnership with the @EarthshotPrize, @RockPhilanth, & @Trane_Tech, explore our Future of Sustainability campaign and the first six of 30 'Bright Spots'—innovations reimagining how we live and work: forumforthefuture.org/the-future-of-…

Fantastic #FridayFeeling installing a RoundView exhibition in the amazing Renold building on @sister_mcr . Very much looking forward to running workshops to spark innovation towards sustainable futures in this space. In the meantime do come along and play the #RoundView games!

More than 230 experts from over 70 countries are in Kuala Lumpur this week for the #IPCC Scoping Meeting to draft the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the IPCC's seventh report assessing the science related to #climatechange.

On to an optimistic keynote from @portsmouthuni’s Creative & Cultural Faculty. HopePunk in the city: from What is to What if. Creative approaches to looking at the built environment, be activists for change & be more sustainable using art, artist books & Zines #GreenLibraries

Hearing @PiersTorday on talking to the future generations on climate change, and that hope still needs to be weaved into the actions we need to take. A perfect message as a final Keynote for #GreenLibraries conference @CILIPinfo @britishlibrary

Libraries are some of the oldest and biggest carbon capture sites in the world, and have a vital role to play in tackling climate change. Keynote @PiersTorday suggests more books should be put in libraries, schools and prisons rather than being pulped. #GreenLibraries. 💚

Every library should have a copy of this book: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_… #GreenLibraries

Earlier this year Natalie published Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society A practical guide to rethinking the way we live, for a fairer future unbound.com/books/change-e… #GreenLibraries

#GoodNews - #ChangeEverything (second printing) is now back in stock at @HiveStores. Just £9.59 for the print version, with support for local independent bookstores part of the deal! hive.co.uk/Product/Natali…

Do come visit us we have a stall to with 3d learning tools combining art, poetry and science at #GreenLibraries conference today in @britishlibrary we're working with libraries throug @MCRCityofLit to trial these tools and find ways to scale up sustainability learning.

Libraries are crucial centres for inspiring communities with ideas for change and supporting the understanding that history is not pre-written but made by the actions of people. Give people hope - allow them to flourish. Inspiring keynote from @natalieben #GreenLibraries

Delighted to be sharing the @GreenerNHS journey with librarians @britishlibrary today. @natalieben starting the day ‘you have on your shelves ideas for how we can live differently. There are enough resources for all of us, if we share equally’ #greenlibraries