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The School of Life: Lily Cole in conversation with Alain de Botton at the City Temple Conference Centre

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Time 20:00
Date 23/04/15
Price £30

We dream of a better world, but find it hard to believe we could really a difference to the vast economic forces that shape our lives. What if any one of us really did have the power to change things?

From Time Square to the Kalahari, supermodel and businesswoman Lily Cole has seen how rarely markets value what really matter to us. She joins the School of Life to consider how the desire within each of us to give something back might just be a force for meaningful change.
Studying art history at Cambridge, Lily came to imagine utopia not as an idle daydream but a real, ever-present possibility. Now, in conversation with the philosopher and School of Life founder Alain de Botton, she reveals how a gift economy in which real human needs and desires - and not simply the demands of the marketplace - might just be possible after all.

Lily Cole is a supermodel, actress and businesswoman. She was one of Vogue Paris’s top models of the 2000s and model of the year at the 2004 British Fashion Awards. A campaigner and entrepreneur, Lily’s social network Impossible.com launched in 2013, putting her dreams of the gift economy into practice.

Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature including the titles 'How Proust Can Change Your Life' and 'The Consolations of Philosophy’. He is the founder of Living Architecture and is also the founder and Chairman of The School of Life.

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets for Lily Cole in conversation with Alain de Botton at the City Temple Conference Centre on Thursday 23 April at 19:00. To enter the competition, send an email to bojana@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Lily Cole studied at:

A: 1) UCL 2) Oxford 3) Cambridge

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