Past Archives - Page 3 of 5 - Edinburgh Futures Institute

Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures

An illustration of many hands placed on top of each other in a gesture of unity.

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

An artist’s illustration of artificial intelligence (AI) using black noughts and crosses.

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

Norwegian forest taken from an aerial view, with snow dusting the trees

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

The Future of Education: AI

Black and white speaker portraits side by side on a dark background with conference branding in blue

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

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.

Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures

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