Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this Future Tense event features Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this event invites writers and readers to ask: who truly benefits from the current AI explosion?
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this writing workshop explores how poetry can be a portal for our memories of the old Royal Infirmary.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, join Shetland-born author James Crawford as he talks about his latest work, Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, hear stories capturing the memories and experiences of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building in its previous life as a hospital.
Join us to view the stories and illustrations of the old Royal Infirmary side by side in our new festival gallery.
Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Exploring how we can repair objects with creative writing and sculpture, to imagine positive futures, affecting present change.
Got something that’s broken? Repair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item for repair.
Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Young people from the Alternative School at Spartans Community Foundation are back at the festival, with a new exhibition.
Sharpen your technical repair skills under the guidance of EFI's Makerspace team.
Got something that’s broken? Repair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item for repair.
Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
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