Risk Conference

A series of conference calls - platforms for investigation, analysis and discussion - a unique format for integrating intellectual and physical engagement with ethics and architecture spreading the conference call all over the facades of City of London corporate buildings.

Risk Conferences have taken place on Sunday May 1st 2005 at 11.00am and Sunday 28th august 2005 at 6.30pm


Delegates engage in a recorded conference call on the subject of risk, especially physical and financial risk. Some delegates climb on banks in the City of London while engaged in the conference call using their mobiles with hands free devices. Others speak from landline phones.
Delegates include climbing club members Dougie, Alex, Arthur, Em, Lottie, Nacho and Rich - risk manager at JP Morgan.

Financial institutions climbed on and analyzed included 55 and 99 Bishopsgate, the foot of the Nat west Tower, Intimate and expansive understandings of the city's culture and texture were produced. Rich, risk manager from JP Morgan has identified mortgages as a powerful factor in limiting many people's tendencies to explore behaviors divergent from the norm, shortly after scaling the side of 55 Bishopsgate in leather soled brogues. Ben from Platform London pointed out the location of the first meeting of the coalition for the abolition of slavery.


Specific risk encountered include:
Fear of heights
Lack of confidence in own abilities
Security guards asking us to move on
Crumbly brickwork
Inappropriate footwear

The Agenda texted to all deligates before hand:
How might the police shoot to kill policy, demonstrated in Stockwell tube station efffect our climb?
How do we avoid being arrested?
Where do we put out hands and our feet?
What kinds of risk do we engage in regularly?
What are the consequesnces of these risk - personally, to you and remotely to others?