Recycling a Hospital Writing Workshop: Poetry, Memory and Future Dreaming

Join us as we use simple techniques to explore how poetry can be a portal for our memories of the old Royal Infirmary and ideas of how care will take shape at the Futures Institute for years to come.

Practical Utopias: Workshop

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Based on principles of collaboration, future-thinking, and innovation, this workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present.

Flourishing in the Academic Community 

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On Tuesday 5 July 2022, the THRIVE Network hosted a morning of networking and workshopping around priority research themes looking at thriving in the university community.

Visual Methodologies for Public Participatory Work

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Dr. Sabine Niederer , founder of the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, introduces visual methodologies and, in particular, digital visual research that makes use of online data and content to research social issue.

Situating & Doing Digital Methods

Two bubble charts compare "Alt left related News Media" (green backgrounds) and "Antifa related News Media" (red background). CNN and Fox News Network are prominent in the left chart. "Before It's News" is prominent on the right chart.

Prof. Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam) historicised and theorised digital methods, putting forward the notion of ‘online groundedness’, before leading a practical workshop, introducing how to do digital methods.

Join us to challenge, create, and make change happen.

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