The Department of Artecology #4 KPIS

Did someone say end of the financial year?! 

It’s time for The Department of Artecology #4 and this time we are getting awkward and talking the numbers!

We are unpicking that pesky techno-managerial acronym, the ‘KPI’ or ‘Key Performance Indicator’ looking at the performativity of data through…performance. 

Governments, local authorities, businesses, your line managers are looking for the ‘evidence’ in order to act but how much is enough and, do we really have an information gap or an action gap? What numbers do The Powers That Be need to see - figures towards economic growth or tree growth? Oh and by the way…how do we respond to the demand for impact with diminishing budgets £££?

How do we handle the demand to ‘demonstrate impact’ when the real ROI we’re seeking is a cessation of climate breakdown and increase in biodiversity? How do we move beyond the timeframe of the financial year to accommodate the long-term, far-sighted work needed and devise new measures of success beyond quantified, measured (and often financial) units. 

Dancing around the data; pirouetting around powerpoint-less-ness; acting and taking-action around environmental acts, join me for an afternoon thinking through new shapes of impacting and evidencing. 

This session is specially programmed to coincide with my week long seeding space residence at London Performance Studios.

If you are interested in joining - please email me at beckyl.lyon@googlemail.com To note, this session is designed for people actively involved in these topics and will be of most interest / use to those active in environmental management, conservation practice and stewardship to some capacity.