Talk/Discussion Archives - Edinburgh Futures Institute

Tech Tuesdays #3: Automation – Your New Business Partner

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Explore how automation and artificial intelligence could run the back office of your tourism or hospitality business.

Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca

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A panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.

Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo

A conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.

Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation

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This event was programmed in collaboration with Race.ed.

The Future of Education: Crisis

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The intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do. The first conversation in the series … Read more

The Future of Education: Utopia

Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.

Video Games: Play and Pedagogy

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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

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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

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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

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A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

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