RiskConference

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Risk Conference Meeting place oppostite the Lloyds Building on Leadenhall Steet at half past six in the evening on sunday 28th august

Risk Conference is a platform for investigation, analysis and discussion - a unique format for integrating intellectual and physical engagement with ethics and architecture. It spreads the conference call all over the facades of corporate buildings.

Deligates engage in a recorded conference call on the subject of risk, especially physical and financial risk. Some deligates climb on banks in the City of London while engaged in the conference call using their mobiles with hands free devices. Others speak from land line phones. Deligates include climbing club members Dougie, Alex, Arthur, Em, Lottie, Nacho and Rich - risk manager at JP Morgan. All, either risk advers, risk neutral and/or risk takers.

The Agenda is texted to all deligates before hand: How does teh police shoot to kill policy 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?

Specific risk encountered include: Fear of heights lack of confidence in own abilities Security guards asking us to move on Crumbly brick work Inappropriate footware

Financial institutions climbed on and analysed include 55 and 99 Bishopsgate, the foot of the Natwest Tower, Intimate and expansive understandings of the city's cluture and texture are produced. Rich, risk manager for JP Morgan has identified mortgages as a powerful factor in limiting many people's tendencies to explore behaviours divergent from the norm. Ben from Platform London pointed out the location of the first meeting of people intent on abolishing slavery. The conference calls are recorded A previous Risk - Distributed Conference, took place on Sunday May 1st 2005 at 11.00am