Chris Carlsson is a co-founder of Critical Mass, the monthly worldwide ride for cyclists reclaiming streets, as well as a widely published author.

His newest book Nowtopia was an inspiration for the Climate for Change exhibition - providing a framework for the groups that we've been inviting into FACT by articulating what it is about these networks that make them special.

From his website, "Nowtopia is a book about a new politics of work. It profiles tinkerers, inventors, and improvisational spirits who bring an artistic approach to important tasks that are ignored or undervalued by market society.  Rooted in practices that have been emerging over the past few decades, Nowtopia’s exploration of work locates an important thread of self-emancipatory class politics beyond the traditional arena of wage-labor. ".

Curator Heather Corcoran interviews Chris on the Liverpool stop of his recent book tour.