How are digital platform interventions reshaping the societies, communities, and economies that we study? The Platform Social is a PhD and ECR-run research network that explores these questions through focused reading groups and collaborative workshops.
How are digital platform interventions reshaping the societies, communities, and economies that we study? The Platform Social is a PhD and ECR-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.
Our ‘Recycling a Hospital’ project aims to reuse materials from the reconstruction of the Old Royal Infirmary, the future home of the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Dr Kristy Docherty, Director of Public Services at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, argues that for complex collaborations to be successful, we need to re-focus on relationships.
Dr James Lamb shares his experience with fusion teaching and reflects on ways to improve student engagement online by thinking beyond the face-to-face/online dichotomy.
The world is changing. Rapidly. Professor Sian Bayne, tells us more about how higher education can develop to meet the demands of an uncertain future.
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