The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
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Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
This event will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
This talk with Arturo Arriagada will analyse the daily routines and economic pressures faced by today's digital workers.
This workshop will generate material which will be collectively sung by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in flowing, following, falling.
This 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be performed by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in falling, flowing, following.
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism.
This event will entangle human and aquatic worlds, moving between freshwater and the deep ocean, learning through performance, video, music, poetry and song.
This discussion considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism.
Laura Cram, Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab at the University of Edinburgh will be giving this year’s Schapiro Lecture for Government and Opposition.
Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.
Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.
A talk by danah boyd.
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.
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
Part of the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
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.
This event will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures.
Niranthea is a hybrid short film combining documentary, audiovisual synaesthesia and AI hearing algorithms to tackle the notions of Deafhood, prosthesis and cyborg.
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
Ex Silens is an experience into a radically alternative sensorium through the entanglement of multiple bodies, multiple agencies.
Our Autumn 2023 programme of events explored leadership in all its forms – from the seats of power to the front lines of activist movements and even in our own workplaces.
Watch recordingsOur Spring 2023 programme of events explored the interconnections of AI and data with humanity through conversations, performances, and workshops.
Watch recordingsOur Autumn 2022 programme featured more than 20 events exploring crisis, migration, displacement and equality coalescing around the theme of Climate Justice.
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Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023
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