Edinburgh International Book Festival

Practical Utopias: Workshop

Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present.

11 August 2024
5pm - 6:30pm
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Practical Utopias: Workshop

11th August 5:00 PM 6:30 PM BST

By asking us to reconsider the most basic questions of our existence, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Practical Utopias’ concept provides a blueprint for rethinking how we live sustainably and optimistically. What should we eat in utopia? What are the optimal ways for groups to live together? Today, Jennifer Williams, Utopia Lab programme director at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, delivers a workshop using Atwood’s framework. Based on principles of collaboration, future-thinking, and innovation, the workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present.


Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.

1 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh, EH3 9EF United Kingdom
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