THALIA VERKADE

We are delighted that Thalia Verkade will join us as the guest speaker for this year's AGM.

Thalia will talk to us about her award winning book: Movement: How to take back our streets and transform our lives (2022), co-authored by Marco te Brömmelstroet and translated into English by Fiona Graham.

'We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically rethink how we use these public spaces? Could we change our lives for the better?'

'A revolutionary view of mobility … Gives us the tools to campaign for something different.’ (Lucy Siegle)

Thalia Verkade lives in The Netherlands (Rotterdam). She has been a staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Dutch national newspapers NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next. For the ad-free slow journalism platform De Correspondent she has written extensively about the topics she loves most: language, transport, and technocracy.