Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
This event will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
This discussion considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
Technomoral Conversations: What the Majority World Can Teach Us about AI
In this Technomoral Conversations panel, we will hear from leading voices from the Majority World on what they have learned from and about AI, and the issues and visions they would like to see taken up.
Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
The Future of Education: AI
Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
The Future of AI at School
This event will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures.
A Conversation about the Edinburgh Conversations
From their personal knowledge, our conversationalists will discuss the success of the original Edinburgh Conversations in the 1980s, and how in the context of the current global situation, the approach might be replicated.
Margaret Atwood: Practical Utopias – An Exploration of the Possible
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this Future Tense event features Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems.
Words from the Wards: Jennifer Williams
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, hear stories capturing the memories and experiences of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building in its previous life as a hospital.
