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Unco: LGBT+ Scots Glossar

A split image of two individuals: the first person is smiling and wearing a headpiece made of seashells, and the second person has curly hair and glasses with a neutral expression, standing outdoors with a blurred background.

Unco is a project to create a new Scots lexicon of LGBT+ words. These words are a proposal for how LGBT+ people can talk about themselves in Scots.

The Future of AI at School

A robot teacher leads a class of eight children sitting in elementary school desks, illustrating the concept of AI-powered education. Illustration uses a unified palette of neutral and turquoise colors, comprised of vector shapes over a dark gray background on a 16x9 artboard, and presented in isometric view.

This event will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures.

Ex Silens: from the series ‘I Am Your Body’

A person with intricate dark body paint is seated on a wooden box in a snowy forest. The scene is surrounded by bare trees, and cables are wrapped around their body. The snow-covered ground adds contrast to the image.

Ex Silens is an experience into a radically alternative sensorium through the entanglement of multiple bodies, multiple agencies.

A Conversation about the Edinburgh Conversations

Black background with event text and historic photograph of the members of the Edinburgh Conversations from the 1980s

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.

Technomoral Conversations: Who is Responsible for Responsible AI?

Building blocks are overlayed with digital squares that highlight people living their day-to-day lives through windows. Some of the squares are accompanied by cursors.

The Technomoral Conversations series brings together leading experts in a “fireside chat” format to discuss futures that are worth wanting.

Compassion & Transforming the Economy: Merging the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’

People walking along Southbank with the River Thames and London Skyscrapers in the background.

Join us for a live-stream of this conversation hosted by Professor Liz Grant and Dr Katherine Trebeck, University of Edinburgh.

Governing the AI Business Model: Platforms All the Way Down?

Join the Centre for Technomoral Futures for their Flagship Lecture, where delegates will hear from Dr Michael Veale on Governing the AI Business Model: Platforms All the Way Down?

New Real Salon: “We Speak For…”

In this event, The New Real’s Creative Agent, Caroline Sinders, convenes a group of practitioners who work on and with AI. Together they will explore future landscapes for creative AI and what co-creation between AI and artists will look like in the future.

Building a Global Movement for Self-Managed Abortion

Join us to discuss the women building a robust transnational feminist network, the tactics developed in the global south which are now being shared with feminists in Europe and North America, and building a new model for international feminist solidarity.

Utopia Lab: Futures Dreaming

A group of people standing in a circle with their hands on each other's shoulders.

In this session invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia, which we will respond to by creating our own artistic, thoughtful and creative mini-Utopias.

Unco: LGBT+ Scots Glossar

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