AWED were brought together by accident and a shared interest in making films, installations, texts and other web-based artefacts, that explore the use of new forms of ‘big data’ and old forms of archival data in how places are imagined, represented and planned.
AWED were brought together by accident and a shared interest in making films, installations, texts and other web-based artefacts, that explore the use of new forms of ‘big data’ and old forms of archival data in how places are imagined, represented and planned.
The investment funds of life insurance and pension companies have had an outsized and scarcely remarked impact on the built environment in cities and towns across the world.
Civicscope uses photographic, digital and archival resources to witness the city, its architectures and its voices evolve through time and space.
This ESRC-LAF supported project was conducted in partnership with the Granton Waterfront Development team at Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh Palette and Granton Hub.
How are digital platform interventions reshaping the societies, communities, and economies that we study? The Platform Social is a PhD-run research network that explores these questions through focused reading groups and collaborative workshops.
“Closes and Opens” is a film about the regeneration of the Old Royal Infirmary into the new home of the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
An exhibit showcasing various creative work depicting the experience of living through the Covid-19 pandemic, captured by Cyrenians frontline staff working in the homelessness sector.
Information about artworks and images at the South College Street building, the interim home of EFI students before moving into the new building.
Our Utopia Labs are “no-spaces,” places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.
Our space for sharing creative work produced by Edinburgh Futures Institute Students, and other University of Edinburgh students working with EFI on world-changing projects.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) building, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
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