Postgraduate Virtual Open Day: Just and Equitable Futures
Join us for our next virtual Postgraduate Study Open Day covering our MSc Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics and MSc Data, Inequality and Society.
We offer open and participatory events that showcase interdisciplinary work and impact and spark ideas, inspiration and debate.
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Join us for our next virtual Postgraduate Study Open Day covering our MSc Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics and MSc Data, Inequality and Society.
Join us for our next virtual Postgraduate Study Open Day covering our MSc Creative Industries, MSc Narrative Futures: Art, Data and Society and MSc Service Management and Design.
Join us for our next virtual Postgraduate Study Open Day covering our MSc Circular Economy and MSc Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability.
Join us in celebrating Venture Café Edinburgh’s first anniversary in this very special Thursday Gathering! 🎉
TravelTech Meetup: Show Us What You’ve Built with AI.
Meaningful ideas and changes are sparked when serendipitous connection collides with intention.
This talk highlights why the technical and commercial foundations of the AI-enabled welfare state warrant greater scholarly and democratic scrutiny.

Making Waves is an exciting programme of events that explores creativity in different forms, crossing areas such as the arts, technology, science, and the environment..
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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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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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Our Spring 2023 programme of events explored the interconnections of AI and data with humanity through conversations, performances, and workshops.
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Our Autumn 2022 programme featured more than 20 events exploring crisis, migration, displacement and equality coalescing around the theme of Climate Justice.
Watch recordings"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