Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
22nd November 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM GMT
To mark the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library, we gather to discuss what it means to be “futures literate”. We explore relationships between place, knowledge, imagination and time in making meaning from and engaging with different futures.
Speaker Biographies
Katie Paterson (born 1981, Scotland) is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world, Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment. Combining a Romantic sensibility with a research-based approach, conceptual rigour and coolly minimalist presentation, her work collapses the distance between the viewer and the most distant edges of time and the cosmos.
Anne Beate Hovind is an urban developer who commissions and produces art in public spaces for more than 20 years. She holds several board positions and is senior lecturer II at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design at OsloMet. Hovind has extensive management experience primarily in the private sector, but also in the public sector. She has held project management roles with responsibility for development work and change processes in large organizations, led innovation and development projects, and sat in the project management of land-based construction projects. In 2018, she received the Oslo Municipality’s Artist Award for her work with art in the city.
Jen Ross is Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh. She researches and writes about speculative methods for researching education futures, exploring a variety of topics including museum engagement, AI in education, surveillance and trust, and online distance learning. She is co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and recently developed and launched the MSc in Education Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute.
