Doughnut Hour

Doughnut Hour took place every day at Transactionland Bristol, from 1.30-2.30pm. We bought our doughnuts from local vegan doughnut makers Future Doughnuts. We put the kettle on and gathered whoever was in the shop to discuss Kate Raworth’s theory of Doughnut Economics. 

These conversations didn’t have a strict structure, though usually began with someone introducing the theory in fairly basic terms. From there we followed our noses. We had the book on hand, but didn’t use it much - mainly we drew on the knowledge in the room.

Doughnut Hour involved conversations between 3 people (on Wednesdays) and 25 people (Sundays were a popular doughnut day). I think the conversations were so good partly because we almost always had:

• At least one person who knew something about doughnut economics and who had turned up specifically to talk about that/learn about it.

• At least one person who had turned up for doughnuts, had never heard of doughnut economics, and did not realise that they were going to end up in this kind of conversation.

• At least one person who was just visiting the shop but didn’t know it was doughnut hour.