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  • March 2025

  • Mon 31
    Person using a smartphone with virtual icons related to banking, such as ATM, bank, and credit card, overlaid on the image. The background is blurred, highlighting the focus on digital finance technology.

    Centre for Investing Innovation Guest Lecture: Sahra Ghalebikesabi

    31st March 2025 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM BST
    Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF

    Join the Centre for Investing Innovation for a guest lecture featuring Sahra Ghalebikesabi, Google DeepMind.

    Free
  • April 2025

  • Tue 1
    Graffiti-style text in bright pink on a white background reads "CULTURE IS BAD.

    Culture is Bad for You

    • Making Waves: Spring 2025
    • Talk/Discussion
    1st April 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM BST
    Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    A panel event on the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural work and how they are mirrored in other national and policy contexts

    Free
  • Wed 2
    dmstfct, Waluigi’s Purgatory (2024) A surreal scene features a person in historical dress standing by a striped fortress structure under a starry night sky. Silhouetted figures are on the roof. Two barren trees and a checkered ground complete the enigmatic setting.

    Future-Proofing Creative Skills for Responsible AI Adoption

    • Making Waves: Spring 2025
    • Workshop
    2nd April 2025 1:00 PM - 5:15 PM BST Future-Proofing Creative Skills for Responsible AI Adoption
    Edinburgh Futures Institue, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    A workshop series on the skills needed by creatives in the current technological landscape, in partnership with Adobe.
    For students and early career practitioners

    Free
  • Wed 2
    The word "DECADE" is written in bold, uppercase letters with a blue horizontal line cutting through the lower third of the letters. The text is white on a black background.

    Emerging Futures for Tokenised Licensing in the Creative Industries

    • Talk/Discussion
    2nd April 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM BST

    This webinar is designed for individuals and organisations across the creative industries who are navigating the evolving landscape of digital content management and licensing.

  • Wed 2
    Network diagram showing interconnected nodes with labels such as 'Digital Methods,' 'Tracking COVID-19,' 'TikTok,' and 'Vaccine.' Nodes are colored differently, depicting various categories and their relationships.

    Repurposing media for collective inquiry: notes from the Public Data Lab

    • Talk/Discussion
    2nd April 2025 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM BST
    Room 2.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    In this talk, the co-founders of the Public Data Lab will share their experience of developing new collaborative methods through digital tools.

    Free
  • Wed 2
    A promotional banner for a lecture by Professor Oliver Escobar titled "Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?" at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

    Inaugural lecture: Professor Oliver Escobar

    • Lecture
    2nd April 2025 5:15 PM - 7:30 PM BST
    G.03 - 50 George Square 50 George Square, Edinburgh

    Join us to celebrate Oliver Escobar's professorship at his inaugural lecture.

    Free
  • Fri 4
    A sketch of a serene courtyard surrounded by buildings. The scene features a large tree in the center, lush greenery, and windows with a vintage look on the buildings. The colors are soft with hints of green, brown, and orange.

    In Pursuit of Justice: Lockerbie

    • Making Waves: Spring 2025
    • Performance
    4th April 2025 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM BST
    Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    A conversation with playwright David Harrower about creativity and the role of drama in the pursuit of justice. In collaboration with IASH.

    Free
  • Fri 4
    Illustration of a person wearing a virtual reality headset surrounded by a cosmic background. Text reads: "EFI Core Master's Course, 4th April, 2PM - 4PM, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Room 1.50.

    Building Near Futures: Human AI Ensembles – EFI Master’s Student Showcase

    • Exhibition
    4th April 2025 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST
    Room 1.50, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    The Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Building Near Futures course proudly invites you to join our students for the 2025 course showcase.

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A group of bees swarming around a white bathtub on an orange background. Text reads, "The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Futures Institute - Making Waves Event Season - March-May 2025." A QR code is in the top right corner.

Making Waves

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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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 Autumn Event Season brand leader. Image of dandelion and umbrellas on orange background. Text reads: 'First Breath: Autumn Event Season'. Includes Edinburgh Futures Institute logo.

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

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Alice Disley

Events Co-ordinator

Fraser Pringle

Project & Events Administrator
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Ioannis Kalkounos

Programme Manager
Lewis Williams

Lewis Williams

Events Technician

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