Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
A panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.
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Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.
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Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomAs part of Black History Month, this event will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education.
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AISOMA: Wayne McGregor x Edinburgh Futures Institute
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghA new performance from Studio Wayne McGregor and composer Chris Lyons.
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The Future of Education: Crisis
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do.
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The Future of Education: Utopia
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
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Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis event will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
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Entangled Singing with Rhubaba Choir
Edinburgh Futures Institue, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis workshop will generate material which will be collectively sung by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in flowing, following, falling.
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Entangled Performing with Karen Christopher
Edinburgh Futures Institue, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be performed by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in falling, flowing, following.
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Entanglements: Studies in falling, flowing, following
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis event will entangle human and aquatic worlds, moving between freshwater and the deep ocean, learning through performance, video, music, poetry and song.
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Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis discussion considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
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Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomOur Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.
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Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table exhibition
Edinburgh Futures Institue, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghOur Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.
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Technomoral Conversations: What the Majority World Can Teach Us about AI
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomIn 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.
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Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
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The Future of Education: AI
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
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Unco: LGBT+ Scots Glossar
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomUnco 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.
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The Future of AI at School
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis event will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures.
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Niranthea: A Portrait of Multiplicity in Five Episodes
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghNiranthea is a hybrid short film combining documentary, audiovisual synaesthesia and AI hearing algorithms to tackle the notions of Deafhood, prosthesis and cyborg.
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Ex Silens: from the series ‘I Am Your Body’
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomEx Silens is an experience into a radically alternative sensorium through the entanglement of multiple bodies, multiple agencies.
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