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April 2025

24th April 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM BST

Book launch: Transmedia Geographies

Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF

Free

25th April 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM BST

Utopia Lab: The Understorey

Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF

Free

25th April 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM BST

David Farrier: Nature’s Genius

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Free

29th April 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM BST

The New Real Salon: Doing AI Differently

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Free

May 2025

1st May 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM BST

Book Launch: Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India

Violet Laidlaw Room (6.02) Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh

Free

2nd May 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM BST

Marcus du Sautoy: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Free

Training

5th May 12:00 PM BST

Creative Industries Mixer Event

Room 3.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, Scotland

Free

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Learning Curves

Our Autumn 2024 programme of events explored the future of education through panel discussions, poetry readings, live music and performance, and deep intellectual debate and discussion.

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POWER TRIP

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.

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Love machine

Our Spring 2023 programme of events explored the interconnections of AI and data with humanity through conversations, performances, and workshops.

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First Breath

Our 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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"The production and intellectual content of your recent events has been fantastic! Thank you for the opportunity to attend and learn. This is probably the best event I have been to all year."
Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

"Really, really impressed with Futures Institute events. Properly impressive speakers, and seamless technical management. Thank you for keeping them hybrid/online – it's a really nice way to keep in touch!"
Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

"Amazing! I hope that Utopia Lab can ring in every event season, the dream space that you curate and allow to flourish is an important and novel lens that Edinburgh Futures Institute offers partners, students, staff, researchers and anyone with an interest in collaborative thinking and doing."
Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

Our public events seasons are co-created with people from across the University of Edinburgh. If you'd like to contribute ideas for the programme please contact the events team.

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Meet the events team

Alice Carr

Events Co-ordinator

Fraser Pringle

Project & Events Administrator

Ioannis Kalkounos

Programme Manager

Lewis Williams

Events Technician

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Email: efi@ed.ac.uk

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