Slow Down London hit the weekend papers with a feature by Harry Eyres on the front page of the Financial Times Life & Arts section (28/29 March 2009). Under the heading ‘A slowdown you can enjoy’, Harry writes about the relevance of Slow Down London within the curent economic crisis.

‘For the promoters of slowness – such as myself in the Slow Lane column – the past 12 months have presented both confirmation and conundrum. The world has bowled along happily for decades in the fast lane, with an occasional half-friendly, half-condescending wave towards the slow one. But after the greatest financial crisis since 1929, it has been forced into low gear, if not reverse.

Perhaps we Slowniks were right all along: the good ship Enterprise was steaming at full speed towards the iceberg, trusting faulty predictions and a brazen conviction of invulnerability. When disaster strikes, however, those who say, “I told you so,” do not get thanked.

Three friends, former BBC radio producer Tessa Watt, agency management consultant Deepa Patel and project management consultant Amanda Stone, started planning their 10-day Slow Down London festival just before the capital and other financial centres were gripped by forced deceleration. For Watt, who left the media circus a couple of years ago to become a yoga and meditation teacher, that only accentuates the relevance of the message.’ Read the full article.

Image by Mike Hill.

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