Margaret Atwood: Practical Utopias – An Exploration of the Possible
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this Future Tense event features Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
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Practical Utopias: Workshop
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present.
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Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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.
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Page Against the Machine: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this event invites writers and readers to ask: who truly benefits from the current AI explosion?
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Recycling a Hospital Writing Workshop: Poetry, Memory and Future Dreaming
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this writing workshop explores how poetry can be a portal for our memories of the old Royal Infirmary.
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James Crawford: Traces of the Past
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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.
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Words from the Wards: Jennifer Williams
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart 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.
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Words from the Wards: The Exhibition
Anthea Bond Exhibition Room, Level 1, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghJoin us to view the stories and illustrations of the old Royal Infirmary side by side in our new festival gallery.
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Future Library
Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
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Utopia Lab
Room 1.52, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghExploring how we can repair objects with creative writing and sculpture, to imagine positive futures, affecting present change.
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Repair Cafe Edinburgh
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomGot something that’s broken? Repair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item for repair.
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Halle O’Neal: The Buddhist Approach to Healing
Spiegeltent, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
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Spark Exhibition
Anthea Bond Exhibition Room, Level 1, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghYoung people from the Alternative School at Spartans Community Foundation are back at the festival, with a new exhibition.
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Repair Skills Workshop with EFI Makerspace
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomSharpen your technical repair skills under the guidance of EFI's Makerspace team.
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Repair Cafe Edinburgh
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomGot something that’s broken? Repair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item for repair.
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Richard Susskind: Navigating the AI Revolution
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
£15.50
