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SUMMARY:Poetry for Change and Action
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism. In the first hour we will explore how poems have been used to speak truth to power and lift up seldom heard voices. In the second hour we will help you think about how you might use poetry with the people you work with to support them to share their experiences and inspire change through writing poetry. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be similar but each will explore a different theme or issue of social significance. You may take the workshops as a sequence or only attend one. \n\n\n\nThe first two workshops will be run online and the third will be run in-person at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nThe Eventbrite linked on this page is for the in-person session – follow this link to register for the online sessions on 31 October and 7 November.  \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nProfessor Sam Illingworth works at Edinburgh Napier University and is a world-leading expert in the intersections of poetry\, research\, and pedagogy. He is also the founder of Consilience\, the world’s first science and poetry journal. Find out more about Sam and his work at www.samillingworth.com. \n\n\n\nDr Autumn Roesch-Marsh works at the University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. She is Co-Director of The Binks Hub\, which seeks to co-create research with communities using arts engaged methods to promote human flourishing. She recently worked with the Scottish Poetry Library on a Poetry for Wellbeing project for Social Workers. You can access the resources developed for this project here: Running Your Own Poetry for Wellbeing Workshops – Projects – Scottish Poetry Library
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/poetry-for-change-and-action-2/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government and Opposition
DESCRIPTION:Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture 2024 \n\n\n\nThe Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture is given annually in honour of Leonard Schapiro\, one of the journal’s founding editors. \n\n\n\nLaura Cram\, Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab at the University of Edinburgh will be giving this year’s Schapiro Lecture for Government and Opposition on ‘A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government & Opposition’. Her analysis is of significant contemporary significance\, highlighting the challenges to good governance that obtain in often highly polarised decision environments. \n\n\n\nProfessor Cram’s lecture will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions and a further chance for conversation during the wine reception for attendees. \n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed on Thursday 14 November\, from 18:00-19:15 \n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis lecture examines the concepts of Government and Opposition from a neuropolitical perspective. The lecture will introduce neuropolitics and explore how insights from this psychophysiology and the cognitive neurosciences can help to illuminate the underlying mechanisms through which decisions and compromises are made\, or fail\, to be made in often polarized governing environments. Drawing together her decades of research on the European policy process and her lab’s current work on the neuropolitics of identity and decision-making\, Professor Cram will offer new insights into the implications of adversarial positioning of government and opposition\, for governance outcomes. \n\n\n\nSpeaker biography\n\n\n\nLaura Cram is Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab(NRLabs) at the University of Edinburgh. Her lab uses experimental approaches\, including fMRI brain scanning\, face-emotion coding\, eye-tracking and biometric measures along with social computational approaches to get ‘under the hood’ of political attitudes\, identities and behaviours. She has also published widely on the European Union (EU) policy process and on EU identity. She held a Senior Fellowship on the Economic and Social Research Council’s UK in a Changing Europe programme\, explore the insights that cognitive neuroscience could offer into contemporary debates on the UK’s EU membership of the EU. She was a contributing author to the EU Commission’s 2019 study Understanding our Political Nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making. She acted as Special Advisor to the Scottish Parliament’s\, European and External Relations Committee\, on the Inquiry into the Impact of the Treaty of Lisbon on Scotland. She has provided evidence to the Houses of Lords and Houses of Commons in the UK and works closely with industrial partners and government officials in her research. She has been cited in the New York Times\, Christian Science Monitor\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, Economist\, Financial Times\, Irish Times\, Telegraph\, the Conversation\, BBC\, Sky News\, Al Jazeera\, CNN\, International Associated Press. Her lab’s work has featured in BBC documentaries on the process of political decision-making. She was co-editor of Government and Opposition 2018-2024.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-neuropolitical-understanding-of-government-opposition-professor-laura-cram/
LOCATION:Informatics Forum\, The University of Edinburgh\, 10 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table
DESCRIPTION:This workshop takes place over 14th & 15th November. Please note – we require that attendees are present for the entirety of both days of this event. \n\n\n\nOur Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. \n\n\n\nThe term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. \n\n\n\nThe word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόποσ (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’.[i] \n\n\n\nIn this session\, Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will present their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table. On our own and in groups\, we will respond to these visions by designing and creating chairs that offer comfort and community to people of all descriptions and abilities. The chairs we produce will then be the starting point for a curatorial exploration in which we consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. \n\n\n\nDay 1: Sharing and Making \n\n\n\nDay 2: Curating and Contemplating \n\n\n\nLunch and materials for creating will be provided. The lab will also include meditation\, poetry reading/listening and simple movement and breathing exercises. All body types and levels of experience welcome. \n\n\n\nPlease note – we require that attendees are present for the entirety of both days of this event. \n\n\n\nUtopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University staff and students\, and non-University practitioners. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/utopia-lab-2023/ \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a Research Fellow for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh with a background in anthropology and gender studies. Their woodworking practice started as a hobby in 2018\, and has since developed into an artistic and curational practice which frequently merges into the ethnographic and social research contexts in which they work. This has recently seen Jimmy work with colleagues from the EFI and local community to make the ‘Spirit Case’ sculpture which lives on the third floor of Edinburgh Futures Institute\, collaborate with the Ripple Project in NE Edinburgh on a community-led arts/research project\, and collaborate artistically with colleagues from Edinburgh\, Newcastle and Kings College London on the AHRC ‘Fail again\, fail better’ project\, which explores utopia and failure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is currently halfway through her doctoral project\, which uses a blended scholarly and practice-based approach to consider the representation of breast cancer surgery in art and curation. Currently she is co-curating the Empowered Journeys project with people who have had breast cancer surgery to produce artworks and pieces of text based on their lived experience. These artworks will go into an exhibition that will consider representation and investigate how curation and creativity can challenge the narratives that society projects onto post-surgery bodies. Previously she undertook a Masters by Research in Collections and Curating Practices\, in which she co-curated the Art in Mind exhibition\, an exploration of art and mindfulness\, and completed her dissertation on the rarely-acknowledged collaborative processes of queer surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Utopia Lab Team\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams is the Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She manages a portfolio of creative projects that connect the work of the Institute to communities within the University of Edinburgh and beyond its walls. Utopia Lab\, for instance\, is a project in which people from many different places gather to dream futures that inspire our experience of the present and allow us to see the world in new ways that enable change. \n\n\n\nJennifer is a poet and librettist and her background is in writing\, art\, collaboration\, creative learning and project management. Williams is particularly interested in expanding dialogues across languages\, perspectives and cultures and in poetry\, cross-form work\, music\, visual art\, dance\, opera and theatre. She is concerned with the body\, and how slowing down can help busy people to experience their connection to themselves\, one another and the world more fully. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA degree from Wellesley College in English Literature with a Studio Art minor\, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Recent posts have included Projects & Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Academic Development\, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Officer at the Traverse Theatre. \n\n\n\nSee Jennifer’s website for more information about her own creative explorations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatjaz Vidmar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Matjaz Vidmar is one of the first utopians\, joining the pilot project in 2019. He is excited about philosophical\, processual and political implications of utopian thinking\, but actually enjoys the off-grid\, poetry-infused meditative vibe of our labs the most. Matjaz is also an academic in Engineering Management\, where he is researching innovation processes\, R&D (eco)systems and futures strategies and design\, especially within the space industry\, artificial intelligence and data-driven economy. He leads interdisciplinary projects spanning arts\, science and civil society\, he is involved in several start-up companies; and he delivers an extensive public engagement programme. More at www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-seats-at-the-table/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. \n\n\n\nThe term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. \n\n\n\nThe word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόποσ (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’.[i] \n\n\n\nFollowing on from a 1.5 day Utopia Lab design session in which Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will have shared their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table\, visitors to this exhibition will be invited to explore the responses that Utopia Lab participants have created in the form of chair designs and models that offer comfort and community to people of all descriptions and abilities. Guests will be invited to consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit. We will also consider what utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. This is a drop in event\, please feel free to come when suits and to stay as long as you wish. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nUtopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University staff and students\, and non-University practitioners. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/utopia-lab-2023/ \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a Research Fellow for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh with a background in anthropology and gender studies. Their woodworking practice started as a hobby in 2018\, and has since developed into an artistic and curational practice which frequently merges into the ethnographic and social research contexts in which they work. This has recently seen Jimmy work with colleagues from the EFI and local community to make the ‘Spirit Case’ sculpture which lives on the third floor of Edinburgh Futures Institute\, collaborate with the Ripple Project in NE Edinburgh on a community-led arts/research project\, and collaborate artistically with colleagues from Edinburgh\, Newcastle and Kings College London on the AHRC ‘Fail again\, fail better’ project\, which explores utopia and failure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is currently halfway through her doctoral project\, which uses a blended scholarly and practice-based approach to consider the representation of breast cancer surgery in art and curation. Currently she is co-curating the Empowered Journeys project with people who have had breast cancer surgery to produce artworks and pieces of text based on their lived experience. These artworks will go into an exhibition that will consider representation and investigate how curation and creativity can challenge the narratives that society projects onto post-surgery bodies. Previously she undertook a Masters by Research in Collections and Curating Practices\, in which she co-curated the Art in Mind exhibition\, an exploration of art and mindfulness\, and completed her dissertation on the rarely-acknowledged collaborative processes of queer surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Utopia Lab Team\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams is the Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She manages a portfolio of creative projects that connect the work of the Institute to communities within the University of Edinburgh and beyond its walls. Utopia Lab\, for instance\, is a project in which people from many different places gather to dream futures that inspire our experience of the present and allow us to see the world in new ways that enable change. \n\n\n\nJennifer is a poet and librettist and her background is in writing\, art\, collaboration\, creative learning and project management. Williams is particularly interested in expanding dialogues across languages\, perspectives and cultures and in poetry\, cross-form work\, music\, visual art\, dance\, opera and theatre. She is concerned with the body\, and how slowing down can help busy people to experience their connection to themselves\, one another and the world more fully. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA degree from Wellesley College in English Literature with a Studio Art minor\, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Recent posts have included Projects & Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Academic Development\, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Officer at the Traverse Theatre. \n\n\n\nSee Jennifer’s website for more information about her own creative explorations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatjaz Vidmar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Matjaz Vidmar is one of the first utopians\, joining the pilot project in 2019. He is excited about philosophical\, processual and political implications of utopian thinking\, but actually enjoys the off-grid\, poetry-infused meditative vibe of our labs the most. Matjaz is also an academic in Engineering Management\, where he is researching innovation processes\, R&D (eco)systems and futures strategies and design\, especially within the space industry\, artificial intelligence and data-driven economy. He leads interdisciplinary projects spanning arts\, science and civil society\, he is involved in several start-up companies; and he delivers an extensive public engagement programme. More at www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-seats-at-the-table-exhibition/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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SUMMARY:Here Be Dragons: The Challenges of Pursuing Responsible AI
DESCRIPTION:Reid Concert Hall\, Bristo Square\, Edinburgh EH8 9AL \n\n\n\nOver the last decade\, a range of practices have emerged as scholars\, practitioners\, and regulators attempt to ensure that AI investments don’t go off the rails. Practices like red-teaming marry earlier approaches to content moderation and security\, but others are being developed specifically for the Generative AI space. Many of these fit under the broader rubric of “responsible AI.” How sociotechnical systems are designed\, developed\, and deployed is not inevitable. It behooves us all to grapple with known pitfalls\, minimize risks\, and nudge the systems towards constructive ends. In this talk\, danah will explore the range of traps that those seeking to minimize harm have\, are\, and will face as they attempt to ground fast-moving developments and offer frameworks for thinking about the present moment. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, danah boyd will discuss the ways risks and harms are being addressed in AI development. She’ll explore the range of traps that those seeking to minimize harm have\, are\, and will face as they attempt to ground fast-moving AI developments and offer frameworks for thinking about the present moment. \n\n\n\nBio\n\n\n\ndanah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society\, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US census to understand how data are made legitimate. Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation\, algorithmic bias\, privacy practices\, social media\, and teen culture. Her monograph “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” has received widespread praise. She founded the research institute Data & Society\, where she currently serves as an advisor. She is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum\, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Critical Data Studies Cluster\, with the Bridging AI Divides (BRAID) programme
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/here-be-dragons-the-challenges-of-pursuing-responsible-ai/
LOCATION:Reid Concert Hall\, Bristo Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Technomoral Conversations: What the Majority World Can Teach Us about AI
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence models ‘learn’ and reproduce biases as a result of their training data\, which is largely drawn from websites based in the US and other Western countries\, and is heavily skewed towards English language sources. At the same time\, the work of training AI models and making them ‘safer’ for human consumption is outsourced to precarious and under-supported workers in developing countries. Tech companies in Silicon Valley and Western governments such as the EU currently dominate the global conversation on AI. Yet there is much that the Majority World has to teach us about AI\, and this perspective is too often marginalised in the discussion of what a future with AI ought to look like. In 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 more broadly as society grapples with the social and ethical implications of these emerging technologies. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nTarcizio Silva\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTarcizio Silva is a researcher based in São Paulo and focused on promoting decolonial and afrodiasporic lenses to understand and influence internet\, A.I. and emergent technologies governance. They are a Tech Policy Senior Fellow at Mozilla Foundation and PhD candidate at UFABC. http://tarciziosilva.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKingsley Owadara\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKingsley Owadara (He/Him) is the founder and an AI Ethicist at the Pan-Africa Center for AI Ethics\, a dedicated not-for-profit organization committed to fostering the development and deployment of AI in a manner that prioritizes human-centric values. At the heart of his role\, he spearheads the initiative to craft and refine ethical frameworks\, ensuring that artificial intelligence technologies are developed and deployed with a strong emphasis on human values\, ethics\, and inclusivity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Fischbach\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Fischbach is the Public Policy Manager for Community Engagement and Advocacy for the Middle East at Meta. She has worked in public policy\, development and media with a strong background in research. She has experience working with government agencies\, international NGOs\, and community level organizations in research\, communications\, and development projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-chair: Morshed Mannan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Morshed Mannan is a Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technologies at Edinburgh Law School. He was previously a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute\, where he was part of the ‘BlockchainGov’ ERC project. His research focuses on blockchain governance and cooperative governance. In addition to his several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics\, his latest co-authored book Blockchain Governance was published by the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series (August 2024). He completed his PhD at Leiden Law School\, Leiden University. Morshed is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School in New York City. He is enrolled as an Advocate by the Bangladesh Bar Council\, and has been called to the Bar of England & Wales. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-chair: Shannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh\, UK – 20th March 2023. (Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY)\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh\, where she is also appointed in Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in EFI\, and is co-Director of the UKRI’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. Professor Vallor’s research explores how AI\, robotics\, and data science reshape human moral character\, habits\, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI\, and she is a former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. She is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press\, 2016) and The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press\, 2024).
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/technomoral-conversation-what-the-majority-world-can-teach-us-about-ai/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-8/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork\, Future Library\, we gather to discuss what it means to be “futures literate”. We explore relationships between place\, knowledge\, imagination and time in making meaning from and engaging with different futures. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Paterson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Paterson (born 1981\, Scotland) is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world\, Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate\, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment. Combining a Romantic sensibility with a research-based approach\, conceptual rigour and coolly minimalist presentation\, her work collapses the distance between the viewer and the most distant edges of time and the cosmos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Sandford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Sandford is Professor of Heritage Evidence\, Foresight and Policy at UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Heritage\, where his research explores the relationship between heritage and the future\, drawing on notions of care\, maintenance and repair to develop alternative orientations towards the future\, and developing an account of the particular capacities of heritage practices to shape the future. Before joining UCL\, Richard led horizon-scanning teams in the UK Civil Service\, developing the capacity of strategy and policy groups across government to work with long-term change and uncertainty. His previous research in education futures addressed young peoples’ ideas of the future\, futures literacy\, and the place of new media technologies in learning. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Beate Hovind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Beate Hovind. Fotografert forskjellig steder i Bjørvika\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Beate Hovind is an urban developer who commissions and produces art in public spaces for more than 20 years. She holds several board positions and is senior lecturer II at the Faculty of Technology\, Art and Design at OsloMet. Hovind has extensive management experience primarily in the private sector\, but also in the public sector. She has held project management roles with responsibility for development work and change processes in large organizations\, led innovation and development projects\, and sat in the project management of land-based construction projects. In 2018\, she received the Oslo Municipality’s Artist Award for her work with art in the city. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Hendrikse Liu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Hendrikse Liu (she/they) is a 2024 graduate of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s MSc Narrative Futures: Art\, Data\, Society. They are a co-organizer of a group of students and recent graduates working on projects that bring together Edinburgh Futures Institute and Future Library — hopeful\, collaborative\, narrative-driven commitments to the future and to each other. As a speculative fiction writer\, Anja also explores these infinite hopeful (not perfect) futures for AI\, climate\, and our collective experience as humans living in the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJen Ross (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJen Ross is Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh. She researches and writes about speculative methods for researching education futures\, exploring a variety of topics including museum engagement\, AI in education\, surveillance and trust\, and online distance learning. She is co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and recently developed and launched the MSc in Education Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future-library-and-futures-literacy-making-futures-from-where-we-are/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: AI
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is the latest in a long series of high-profile technology ‘disruptors’ of education. What futures for education does it promise\, and are these desirable? Who is driving the discussion about its potential? And what might it mean for the act and profession of teaching? Current debate on AI in education is intense\, and often torn between competing visions of education’s social purpose. This panel brings together researchers\, writers and thinkers working in the area of AI to discuss what a future of education permeated by AI might look like\, what it should look like\, and how it might support education for public good. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Warner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Warner is a writer\, editor\, speaker\, researcher\, and author of eight books\, including Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins UP) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin). John has been blogging about higher education at Inside Higher Ed for over a decade\, and writes weekly about books and reading culture at the Chicago Tribune and his associated newsletter\, The Biblioracle Recommends. His ninth book\, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (Basic Books)\, will be published in the U.S. in February 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAraba Sey\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAraba Sey is a researcher and educator whose work examines digital technologies\, socioeconomic development\, and social equity. As Deputy Director at Research ICT Africa\, she leads research evidence-building for policymaking on digital and data governance across Africa. Her research includes studies of the relationship between digital and social inclusion\, gender digital equality\, artificial intelligence for development\, misinformation and disinformation in Africa\, and inclusive research design and decision-making for community development. She is motivated by an interest in resolving disconnections between rhetoric\, action\, and realities around the potential of new technologies to foster human development in Africa and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ben Williamson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ben Williamson is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. He has conducted research on digital technologies\, data and artificial intelligence in education for more than ten years\, with books including Big Data in Education: The Digital Future of Learning\, Policy and Practice\, and the edited collection Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms\, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJL Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Gintare Kulyte\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman\, 2011)\, Locust and Marlin (Shearsman\, 2014)\, House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press\, 2016)\, After Economy (Shearsman\, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman\, 2022). Published widely in journals\, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues in the UK\, Sweden\, Germany\, Denmark\, Turkey\, Cyprus\, Canada\, Hungary\, Romania\, Montenegro and the US. \n\n\n\nShe wrote the libretto for the opera Snow which debuted in London in 2017\, was awarded a bursary to develop a new opera with composer Samantha Fernando at the Royal Opera House and was a librettist for the award-winning 2020 covid-response Episodes project by The Opera Story. She was commissioned to write the 2023 English Touring Opera children’s opera\, The Wish Gatherer. Williams is hopeful about the simple and mysterious power of poetry that allows us to know ourselves\, each other and the world more deeply. www.jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Sian Bayne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSian Bayne is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, where she is Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and leads on Education Futures in her role as Assistant Principal. Her research is critical and interdisciplinary\, currently focused on higher education futures\, AI\, utopia and theories of ‘enhancement’. http://sianbayne.net
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-ai/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Unco: LGBT+ Scots Glossar
DESCRIPTION:Unco is a project to create a new Scots lexicon of LGBT+ words. Developed with LGBT+ Scots speakers\, Unco reaches into the Scots language kist o riches and making new words where they’re needed. These words are a proposal for how LGBT+ people can talk about themselves in Scots\, and are offered as a gift to the future. \n\n\n\nThis event marks the launch of the lexicon with a specially-commissioned spoken word and music performance from Harry Josephine Giles and Malin Lewis. Weaving old and new language together with old and new sounds\, these two artists explore queer identities\, histories and creative futures. \n\n\n\nThe performance will be followed by a discussion with the artists about their approach to creating art that connects Scottish tradition with ideas that look to the future\, and on the process of creating the lexicon. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nMalin Lewis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMalin Lewis is a trans bagpiper\, fiddler\, instrument maker and award winning composer. One of Scotland’s most exciting innovators\, Malin melds Scottish west coast tradition with a newly invented\, self-made bagpipe. Hair tingling\, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions\, humans\, queerness and the universe. Through their work\, Malin explores the space between the gender binary; a space with its own colourful and unique culture. Malin’s unique sound is born from the deep connection that comes with making and composing for their own instrument. Recently they have been touring with Making Tracks international residency\, recording film music in Berlin\, learning the tradition of the extinct Finnish Bagpipes and composing for theatre and contemporary dance from Manchester to Bern. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarry Josephine Giles\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh\, United Kingdom\, 2021. Credit: Rich Dyson\n\n\n\n\n\nHarry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney\, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press\, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection\, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019\, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Ashley Douglas\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Andrew Perry \n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Douglas is a multi-lingual historian\, writer\, translator and consultant\, specialising in the Scots language and LGBT+ history. She has worked with and written for a range of national heritage and literary organisations\, including the National Library of Scotland\, Historic Scotland\, Time for Inclusive Education\, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the British Library. She recently consulted on Katherine: James V\, the latest installment in Rona Munro’s “The James Plays” series. \n\n\n\nAshley has written an original LGBT+ inclusive children’s book in Scots (“The Lass and the Quine”\, forthcoming 2025). She is currently working on her first full-length book (forthcoming 2026): a historical biography of 16th-century figure Marie Maitland\, “Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho”\, who lived an all-round remarkable life as a woman in that era and who is especially significant as the author of among the earliest known lesbian love poetry (written in Scots) since Sappho herself.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/unco-lgbt-scots-glossar/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Performance
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T220840
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SUMMARY:The Future of AI at School
DESCRIPTION:How are school leaders\, policymakers and teachers planning to work with AI in the classroom? What does AI mean for the way we teach\, assess and understand learning and the cultures and practices of schooling? This event will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures. \n\n\n\nThe event will be public-facing\, and carefully designed to provoke active discussion and debate with the audience. It will build on research taking place over recent years at the University of Edinburgh with the Data Education in Schools and BRAID research programmes and draw on the wide network of schools and sector leads who have cocreated this work . It will provide audiences with engaging insights from colleagues working with AI at the chalk-face of teaching and policy development\, opening up debate to a wider public audience. \n\n\n\nThe event will be relevant to anyone with an interest in schools\, schooling and education policy futures. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nLouise Hayward\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLouise Hayward is Professor Emerita of Educational Assessment and Innovation (University of Glasgow) and Honorary Professor (UWTSD). Originally an English teacher\, her research focuses on improving future assessment policy and practice and she has published widely on Assessment and Processes of Change.  In 2018\, Louise founded the International Educational Assessment Network (researchers and policy makers from twelve nations across four continents).  She has worked with OECD on the Learning 2030 programme and with UNESCO on Assessment in STEM education. Recently\, Louise chaired two Independent Reviews of Qualifications and Assessment- the first in England  (A New ERA\, 2021) and most recently  in Scotland (It’s Our Future\, 2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOllie Bray\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOllie Bray is currently Strategic Director at Education Scotland. Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency charged with supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education. At Education Scotland Ollie has overall strategic responsibility for National Improvement Initiatives and Professional Learning and Leadership. This includes major national initiatives\, such as the review of the Scottish Curriculum (the Curriculum Improvement Cycle); Digital Learning & Teaching (including Glow) and National Professional Learning and Leadership Programmes. Immediately before rejoining Education Scotland he was Global Director: Connecting Play and Education at the LEGO Foundation (www.legofoundation.com) where he led the Foundations work related to education improvement through the use of technology and play. As part of this role he also led the Foundations COVID-19 distance learning response stream. Prior to joining the LEGO Foundation in November 2018 he was headteacher of Kingussie High School\, Scotland. He has over 25 years experience in all aspects of education. As well as his philanthropic\, school and systems leadership work he has also been an award winning teacher\, Scotland’s former national advisor for emerging technologies in learning and a non-executive director at Inverness College: University of the Highlands & Islands and was until recently Chair of the Board at the International School of Billund\, Denmark. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheodore Pengelley\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheodore Pengelley is a Digital Manager at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)\, within its Digital Assessment Services team. Theo has a diverse background of delivering innovative digital services spanning the private\, public\, and third sectors. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, he oversees SQA’s digital learning provision\, while exploring new opportunities to use emerging technologies across SQA’s qualifications and assessments. As the chair of SQA’s Artificial Intelligence and Emergent Technology Group\, he is at the forefront of addressing the opportunities and challenges posed by AI and other evolving technologies. Through rigorous research\, engagement across the Scottish education system\, and cross-sector collaboration\, this groups explores the impact of adopting these technologies within learning\, teaching and assessment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJudy Robertson (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Judy Robertson has been researching and developing technology with and for children for over twenty years. She is Chair in Digital Learning at the University of Edinburgh\, in the School of Informatics and Moray House School of Education and Sport. She has active research projects in exploring children and young people’s views on AI in school\, and in documenting early adopter teachers’ use of AI.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-ai-at-school/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T170000
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SUMMARY:Niranthea: A Portrait of Multiplicity in Five Episodes
DESCRIPTION:Image taken as still from Niranthea\, Marco Donnarumma \n\n\n\nNiranthea is a hybrid short film combining documentary\, audiovisual synaesthesia and AI hearing algorithms to tackle the notions of Deafhood\, prosthesis and cyborg. It offers a poetic reflection on the unlearning of normative conceptions of sound and body technology. It does so directly through the unscripted ideas\, thoughts and experiences of a group of six d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The dialogues were filmed after five months of communal research\, during which the group had engaged in regular conversations and research sessions mediated by artist Marco Donnarumma – himself late-deafened. \n\n\n\nThis process of sharing\, analysis and intimate reflection served to create a new communal voice\, a voice that is one and multiple at once. The title symbolises this multiplicity: Niranthea is\, in fact\, an acronym of the letters found in the first names of the members of the working group\, Adriane\, Ann-Catrin\, Mara\, Martin\, Wojciech. Through their different voices\, Niranthea becomes a multiform identity\, a pluripotent and plurisensitive body of perception. \n\n\n\nThe knowledge embodied by Niranthea strives to describe an incredibly wide rage of sonic experiences that do not have anything to do with “hearing” as most commonly intended. Such experiences go well beyond the dominating audist understanding of sound perception and thus inevitably trigger urgent questions on the relationship between sites of power and disabled bodies\, self-empowerment\, misunderstanding and the role of technology in this ecology. \n\n\n\nDonnarumma’s long-term focus on body technologies and AI prostheses is significantly renewed and expanded here. Whereas traditionally\, cyborg art and posthuman art offer conceptual\, idealised or hyperboled perspectives on what a cyborg body really means\, this work breaks with that tradition by confronting the real life experience of those using – or\, importantly\, choosing not to use – those very prostheses; people who live with them inside their bodies as an ambiguous mark of both their own identity and the isolation they are subjected to by the hearing world. \n\n\n\nThe uncompromising conversations and accounts of the group members are complemented\, emphasised and perceptually manifested through a carefully crafted sonic and visual experience drifting through and\, sometimes\, radically abstracting landscape imagery and audio field recordings of the Icelandic wilderness. In delicately combining personal accounts and AI-based sound and visual design\, the film offers a journey through a multitude of alternative perceptions of sound: its fleeting presence\, its seeming absence and the innumerable\, potential states of being it fosters. \n\n\n\nNiranthea is part of the series I Am Your Body (2022-present)\, a project investigating deafness\, sound and (artificial) intelligence through participatory research driven by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. \n\n\n\nLinks: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://marcodonnarumma.com/works/niranthea\n\n\n\n\nhttps://marcodonnarumma.com/series/i-am-your-body \n\n\n\nCredits\n\n\n\nConcept\, artistic direction\, video editing\, AI audio and sound design\, workshop methods and mediation: Marco Donnarumma \n\n\n\nCast\, dialogue thoughts and ideas: Wojciech Czernia\, Adriane Große\, Ann-Catrin Gruber\, Martin Holst\, Mara Matzke \n\n\n\nMusic: excerpts from the forthcoming album “Annihilating Despair” by Leiche (Marco Donnarumma). Mastered by Daniele Antezza at Dadub Studio \n\n\n\nCinematography Essen: Daniele Lucchini \n\n\n\nLight design Essen: Andrea Familari \n\n\n\nCinematography Iceland: Margherita Pevere\, Marco Donnarumma \n\n\n\nGerman Sign Language interpreter: Elisa-Marie Mischewski \n\n\n\nDialogues moderation and production: Kotryna Slapsinskaite \n\n\n\nExhibition view photography: Dirk Rose – PACT Zollverein \n\n\n\nArtwork’s description texts: Marco Donnarumma
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/niranthea-a-portrait-of-multiplicity-in-five-episodes/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T210000
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:Got something that’s broken? Want to try fixing it but not sure how?   \n\n\n\nRepair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item and volunteer fixers will guide you through your repair.   \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday December 4th\, Repair Cafe Edinburgh will be at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.  Volunteers will be on hand to help you repair your broken electrical\, electronic and mechanical devices such as toys\, small / low-voltage electricals\, laptops. There will also be fabrics volunteers to help with clothing repairs. \n\n\n\nNot everything’s fixable at this event\, limited by time\, spare parts\, safety\, capacity. To avoid disappointment we encourage you to contact Repair Cafe Edinburgh beforehand. So if you’ve got something that you want to fix\, you can email repaircafeedinburgh@gmail.com to confirm suitability and to reserve your place. Or just turn up on the day and they will try to take a look. \n\n\n\nPlease note: At busy times you might need to wait for a volunteer to become available. Priority will be given to local residents and those with reserved places. The entrance is on Nightingale Way opposite Pure Gym (the main entrance to Edinburgh Futures Institute will be closed). The last repair session will begin at 8:30pm to allow time for finishing up. \n\n\n\nSee you there!
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/51972/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241208T103000
DTSTAMP:20260405T220840
CREATED:20241104T095335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T113022Z
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-9/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Ex Silens: from the series ‘I Am Your Body’
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Manuel Vason \n\n\n\nWhat is deafness if not another mode of perception? What is a cyborg if not an exploded mirror of today’s corporeal experience? What is the fear of the other if not a prelude to isolation? The instability and interdependence of human bodies are the core of their existence. \n\n\n\nEx Silens is an experience into a radically alternative sensorium through the entanglement of multiple bodies\, multiple agencies. One body is made of diverging limbs and flesh\, another of resonating bones and cables. Together with the bodies of the audience members\, they sound and vibrate\, entering thus in material\, sonic and conceptual feedback with one another; they become one\, but not for long. \n\n\n\nAn exacting and sinuous ritual of sensory reorganization\, Ex Silens delves into the corporeal knowledge hiding at the edges of experience. It is a dreamlike encounter\, yet raw and real. It is a reminiscence\, a reverie surging through real-life accounts of modes of perception that are systematically rejected by the imperative of the normal. \n\n\n\nHere\, cochlear implants\, AI hearing algorithms and amplifiers are extracted from their capitalist chain of production and subverted to create sonic prostheses with their own agencies. Radically intimate\, the prostheses are organs of sharing: they amplify sounds from the performer’s muscle\, heartbeat and blood flow\, diffuse vibrations through the bodies of audience and performer and in doing so they resonate sensible forms of being. \n\n\n\nTechnology is\, by its nature\, normative\, but it doesn’t have to be. In Ex Silens\, hearing algorithms\, AI and cochlear prostheses are not what they are supposed to be. They are morphed into new means of sensing; they do not try to repair a loss with a gain\, but rather magnify a kaleidoscopic sound world that’s always been there. \n\n\n\nThe interactive music of Ex Silens was composed by Donnarumma in ways that offer a complete experience to the d/Deaf public as well as the non-d/Deaf. Audience members who are d/Deaf\, hard of hearing\, or hearing can all experience the performance each according to their sensory configurations. There is no “normal” way of listening to it. \n\n\n\nEx Silens is part of the series I Am Your Body (2022-present)\, a project investigating deafness\, sound and (artificial) intelligence through participatory research driven by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. \n\n\n\nImportant: Please note that this performance will contain strobing lights and loud noise throughout. Ear plugs will be provided to those who would like them. \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nMarco Donnarumma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Manuel Vason\n\n\n\n\n\nMarco Donnarumma is an artist creating technological bodies to navigate the boundaries of experience. His hybrid identity as a performer\, sound artist\, stage director\, inventor\, and theorist allows him to blend contemporary performance\, new media art\, and interactive computer music into performances\, installations\, and films that “defy categorization” (Jury Prix Ars Electronica).The body is\, for Donnarumma\, a morphing language to speak of ritual\, power\, and technology. While rooted in performance art\, he takes the discipline into strange encounters with sound\, machines\, and light to create a sensual\, uncompromising aesthetic. His inventions\, such as AI-driven robotic prosthesis and biophysical musical instruments\, explore visceral forms of interaction and create music from the sounds of a performer’s body. The resulting merging of bodies\, sounds\, machines and algorithms is considered a pioneering approach to the performing arts (Der Standard). Born hearing and then become late-deafened\, Donnarumma creates work that\, through resonating aesthetic experiences\, challenges how powers of society regulate the human body. His ongoing series\, I Am Your Body (2021-present) – co-produced by PACT Zollverein – explores the relationship between sound\, AI\, and the embodied knowledge of d/Deaf bodies through participatory research\, film and performance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrew Hemment (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrew Hemment is Professor of Data Arts and Society and Director of Festival Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh College of Art within University of Edinburgh. He is a Turing Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He leads The New Real (www.newreal.cc) and Experiential AI in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute and Edinburgh’s Festivals. Over thirty years\, Drew has played a leading role in the emergence of a digital culture in Europe. He has worked with cities and nations representing culture and research at the highest level\, and worked for the Singapore Government on Smart Nation and Singapore’s 50th anniversary. He has a repeat track record of internationally leading and shaping research domains\, including Open Data and Human-Centred Smart Cities. In 1995\, Drew founded FutureEverything\, named by The Guardian one of the top ten ideas festivals in the world. In 2016\, he founded the GROW Observatory\, the world’s first continental scale citizens’ observatory. He is presently working to develop a transformative research agenda for the coming decade on AI and the Arts\, and to build a national capability for the UK in this highly significant area. Drew is a frequent public speaker and regularly appears in the media\, including as expert witness on BBC’s Moral Maze\, and film critic for Afternoon Show on BBC Radio Scotland. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Leonardo and Alan Turing Institute Steering Group for Arts\, Humanities and Heritage. His work has been recognised by 14 international awards including Soil Award 2019 (Winner)\, STARTS Prize 2018 (Honorary Mention)\, Lever Prize 2010 (Winner)\, and Prix Ars Electronica 2008 (Honorary Mention).
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ex-silens-from-the-series-i-am-your-body/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Performance
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SUMMARY:How to Find the Soul of a Sailor: Artist Talk and Opening Event
DESCRIPTION:Kasia Molga\, an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist\, designer and storyteller invites you to explore her first iteration of How to Find the Soul of a Sailor\, a deeply personal and innovative project that fuses the past\, present\, and future through the lens of artificial intelligence and memory. This work is the result of The New Real 2023-2024 commission “Uncanny Machines” supported by the Scottish AI Alliance. Hosted at Inspace Gallery with additional support from Arts Council England\, this unique early access version runs from December 12-21\, 2024\, and January 6-11\, 2025. \n\n\n\nImmerse yourself in a deeply personal journey to the future of our oceans and sailors’ time at sea. Experience the Mediterranean sea through the eyes of Molga’s late father\, Tadeusz Molga\, a devoted sailor. During his voyages\, he meticulously documented his passion for the ocean\, a love he shared with young Kasia as she accompanied him on his ship. Fifteen years after his passing\, Molga is left with a profound sense of loss and a collection of his cherished diaries. When the memories of their time together begin to fade\, she turns to these diaries\, clinging to the remnants of his voice and their shared experiences at sea. Molga’s work captures an emotional and environmental journey highlighting the fragility of our oceans\, the ever-changing work conditions of sailors\, and speculates on the future and what her father would say. \n\n\n\nMolga uses The New Real’s specialised experiential AI platform\, The New Real Observatory\, to reimagine her father’s words\, projecting them 50 years into the future. This project is a powerful fusion of memory and technology\, blending generative AI tools with climate data to create an emotionally charged narrative that visualises both the past and future of our oceans. \n\n\n\nMolga’s exhibition uniquely combines English and Polish\, creating a bilingual experience that delves into the profound topics of personal connection to climate change and the digital afterlife. Her work not only honours the enduring power of memory but also showcases the potential benefits and drawbacks of various artificial intelligence tools to preserve and transform our personal histories. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is a must-see for those interested in the intersections of art\, technology\, and the environment\, offering a poignant reflection on the future of our planet and the boundless possibilities of human-AI collaboration. \n\n\n\nArtisit Talk and Opening Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event will feature an Artist Talk and light refreshments will be provided. Tickets are limited. Please reserve a ticket here. \n\n\n\nExhibition Details\n\n\n\nDates: Thurs – Sat| 12-21 Dec 2024 ; Mon – Sat | 6 -11 Jan 2025 (closed on Sundays)Time: 10:00 – 17:00 | Free/Drop-InLocation: Inspace\, 1 Crichton St\, Newington\, Edinburgh EH8 9AB \n\n\n\nArtist\n\n\n\nKasia Molga (UK/PL) has refused to be labelled – design fusionist\, artist\, environmentalist\, creative coder and technologist who for over a decade has sought ways of collaboration with nature\, predominantly focusing on the ever-changing human relation to and perception of the natural environment and fellow ‘earthlings’. Her award winning work has been exhibited worldwide (i\,e. Ars Electronica\, Tate Modern\, MIS (BR)\, Centre Pompidou and more). Kasia has taken part in many international art & science residencies and has lectured and mentored regularly in the EU and UK. An affinity with the ocean is evident in Kasia’s work\, born from her time growing up on merchant navy vessels with her sailor father and she is the proud holder of a diving licence. studiomolga.com \n\n\n\n*Please register your seat for the Artist Talk and Opening Event. The exhibition is open to drop-In. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Courtney Bates\, Project Manager of The New Real at c.bates@ed.ac.uk. \n\n\n\nFor inquiries about accessibility\, please contact the DI team at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk or visit the Access webpage for more venue information: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/venue-access/ \n\n\n\nAbout The New Real:\n\n\n\nThe New Real is a leading research hub on arts and AI at The University of Edinburgh\, fostering innovative projects at the intersection of technology\, creativity\, and society. The New Real explores how AI impacts life at a profound level\, often interacting with us in fascinating and unanticipated ways\, and illuminates how emerging technology can become a creative\, playful and deeply impactful part of everyday living. The New Real is developed in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute\, Edinburgh College of Art\, and The Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nAbout Scottish AI Alliance:\n\n\n\nScotland’s national Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy was launched in March 2021 and set out a vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy\, ethical and inclusive AI. \n\n\n\nThe Scottish AI Alliance is tasked with the delivery of the vision outlined in Scotland’s AI Strategy by empowering Scotland’s people\, supporting Scotland’s businesses and organisations\, and influencing policy impacting Scotland. The Scottish AI Alliance is a strategic collaboration between The Data Lab and the Scottish Government and is led by a Minister-appointed Chair and overseen by Senior Responsible Officers from The Data Lab (CEO) and the Scottish Government (CDO). Its activities are overseen and advised by governance and outcomes focussed advisory groups with representation across society and Scotland’s AI community. \n\n\n\nAbout Inspace:\n\n\n\nInspace is part of the Institute for Design Informatics and is a collaborative hub\, commissioning and producing creative activity. Our public programme connects data\, research and creative talent. We host events and exhibitions where people can explore\, learn\, debate and create. Our programme unlocks digital technologies\, tools and data and explores their role in society through a creative lens. We are home to Inspace City Screens\, a unique seven screen street front projection space visible from Potterrow in Edinburgh. \n\n\n\nAbout Arts Council England : \n\n\n\nArts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. They help people in every corner of the country to experience and benefit from creativity. They do this by investing in artists and organisations that make and deliver exceptional\, inspirational work for our communities.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/how-to-find-the-soul-of-a-sailor-artist-talk-and-opening-event/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Centre for Data\, Culture and Society (CDCS) Annual Lecture 2024 – Professor Alex Gil
DESCRIPTION:Event Title \n\n\n\nThe Point is Still To Change It: On Doing Better Than Best Practices in Data Work for Culture and Society \n\n\n\nEvent Description\n\n\n\nSo-called “Best Practices” in data work for culture and society are usually nothing of the sort. They assume a universal playing field which butts against the asymmetric nature of our cultures and societies. This is especially so in the case of the construction of our hybrid historical and cultural record – parts analog\, parts digital.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Alex Gil will present an overview of his participation in the construction of such a record of ‘best practices’ spanning over a decade of work in the intellectual space of the digital humanities\, and that corner of it that he has strived to nurture – the Caribbean digital humanities. Throughout this trajectory\, he has consistently encountered best practices that serve as little else than alibis for rigid hierarchies and the imposition of North Atlantic forms of being that take for granted rich computational infrastructures. In this event\, Professor Gil and attendees will together take a closer look at the concept of minimal computing\, nimble tents and pirate care\, all with a view argue that we can do better than ‘Best\,’ that in some cases\, we must. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Gil\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University\, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities\, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history\, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments\, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. He is currently senior editor of archipelagos journal\, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference\, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cdcs-annual-lecture-2024-professor-alex-gil/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPlease register your attendance by filling in this form. \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)Gabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822.(Pause for winter break) Thurs 16th Jan\, 9.30-10.30EthicsCultural Safety in Participatory Arts-Based Research: How Can We Do Better? | Published in Journal of Participatory Research MethodsThurs 23rd Jan\, 9.30-10.30CollageMaria Abranches & Elena Horton (2024) Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making\, International Journal of Heritage Studies\, 30:1\, 81-102\, Full article: Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage makingThurs 30th Jan\, 9.30-10.30Digital Storytelling“Listen to My Story and You Will Know Me”: Digital Stories as Student‐Centered Collaborative Projects – VINOGRADOVA – 2011 – TESOL Journal – Wiley Online LibraryThurs 6th Feb\, 9.30-10.30ZinesZining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums – Jade French\, Emma Curd\, 2022No meeting this week\, February holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 20th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Archives and Oral HistoriesFull article: Let Our Legacy Continue: beginning an archival journey a creative essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence GalleryThurs 27th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Forum theatreForum Theatre and participatory (Action) research in social work: methodological reflections on caseThurs 6th Mar\, 9.30-10.30PlaylistsThe Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and EducationThurs 13th Mar\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)TBA\n\n\n\nPast reading selections\, for info:\n\n\n\nHaseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk) \n\n\n\nvan Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103 \n\n\n\nVicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285 \n\n\n\nChapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: Berg \n\n\n\nHarrison\, K.\, Jacobsen\, K.\, & Sunderland\, N. (2019). New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Applied Arts & Health\, 10(2)\, 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.2.147_1 \n\n\n\nMartinez\, Francisco (2021) Ethnographic Experiments with Artists\, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibitions as a research method\, London: UCL Press. Chapter 7 ‘Curating ethnographic research’ from this book as a reading for a later week for the group\, OA at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51817 \n\n\n\nMakepeace\, E. (2021). Theatre is knowledge: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and participatory research. In The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (Vol. 2\, pp. 68-78). SAGE Publications Ltd\, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529769432 \n\n\n\nEmmerton\, R.\, & Giselsson\, K. (2024). Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial. Journal of Sociology\, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241255153 \n\n\n\nGabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822. \n\n\n\nSome other books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvon
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CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:How Platforms Fail Democracy
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised and hosted by the School of Political Science. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n“Platforms fail democracy. They fail in countries with comparatively stable governments and free and fair elections. They fail in states where leaders try to hold onto power even when they are voted out. This talk argues how and why they must do better.  As democratic backsliding takes root around the world\, I argue that technology companies must serve as democratic gatekeepers and adopt “democracy-worthy” platform policies. I outline how platforms should understand democratic threats and prevent the manipulation of their technologies by antidemocratic forces. I show how autocrats and autocratizing forces in countries ranging from Brazil\, Hungary\, India\, and Turkey to the United States weaponize expression and social media to undermine or rollback elections and democratic institutions. I argue that this happens according to a well-established playbook that we have seen time and again. Leaders in these countries\, rather consistently and routinely\, delegitimize electoral processes and encourage or incite political violence. They conduct disinformation campaigns that spread harmful conspiracy theories and silence and harass the political opposition. They justify power grabs through strongman appeals to safety and security. And\, these autocrats mobilize dominant groups through fear against racial\, ethnic\, religious\, or other minority group ‘others.’  \n\n\n\nAs this talk shows\, this is a well-established playbook. That very consistency means that guardians of democracy – including platforms – can and must effectively counter these campaigns. I argue that platforms should adopt democracy-worthy policies that elevate public over individual rights\, put people over politicians\, account for power\, and draw a red line around election disinformation.” \nProfessor Daniel Kreiss\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Daniel Kreiss\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Kreiss is the Edgar Thomas Cato Distinguished Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the faculty director\, a principal researcher\, and co-founder of the UNC Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life\, a global leader in disinformation research.  Kreiss is the author or co-author of five books and the co-editor of Media and January 6th (Oxford University Press\, 2024). Kreiss’s last volume\, a co-written textbook entitled Platforms\, Power\, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age (Polity\, 2024)\, has been translated into multiple languages and adopted in numerous courses in the U.S. and Europe. Kreiss co-edits the Oxford University Press book series Journalism and Political Communication Unbound and is an associate editor of the field-leading Political Communication journal. At the Hussman School\, Kreiss is the director of the Political Communication Certificate. Kreiss is an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and received a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/how-platforms-fail-democracy/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre A\, 40 George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPlease register your attendance by filling in this form. \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)Gabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822.(Pause for winter break) Thurs 16th Jan\, 9.30-10.30EthicsCultural Safety in Participatory Arts-Based Research: How Can We Do Better? | Published in Journal of Participatory Research MethodsThurs 23rd Jan\, 9.30-10.30CollageMaria Abranches & Elena Horton (2024) Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making\, International Journal of Heritage Studies\, 30:1\, 81-102\, Full article: Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage makingThurs 30th Jan\, 9.30-10.30Digital Storytelling“Listen to My Story and You Will Know Me”: Digital Stories as Student‐Centered Collaborative Projects – VINOGRADOVA – 2011 – TESOL Journal – Wiley Online LibraryThurs 6th Feb\, 9.30-10.30ZinesZining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums – Jade French\, Emma Curd\, 2022No meeting this week\, February holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 20th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Archives and Oral HistoriesFull article: Let Our Legacy Continue: beginning an archival journey a creative essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence GalleryThurs 27th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Forum theatreForum Theatre and participatory (Action) research in social work: methodological reflections on caseThurs 6th Mar\, 9.30-10.30PlaylistsThe Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and EducationThurs 13th Mar\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)TBA\n\n\n\nPast reading selections\, for info:\n\n\n\nHaseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk) \n\n\n\nvan Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103 \n\n\n\nVicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285 \n\n\n\nChapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: Berg \n\n\n\nHarrison\, K.\, Jacobsen\, K.\, & Sunderland\, N. (2019). New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Applied Arts & Health\, 10(2)\, 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.2.147_1 \n\n\n\nMartinez\, Francisco (2021) Ethnographic Experiments with Artists\, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibitions as a research method\, London: UCL Press. Chapter 7 ‘Curating ethnographic research’ from this book as a reading for a later week for the group\, OA at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51817 \n\n\n\nMakepeace\, E. (2021). Theatre is knowledge: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and participatory research. In The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (Vol. 2\, pp. 68-78). SAGE Publications Ltd\, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529769432 \n\n\n\nEmmerton\, R.\, & Giselsson\, K. (2024). Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial. Journal of Sociology\, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241255153 \n\n\n\nGabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822. \n\n\n\nSome other books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvon
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-13/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Opens and Closes: the future of Edinburgh’s histories Premiere
DESCRIPTION:Over two years in the making and roving from Edinburgh to New York the film is about the role of city region deals\, innovation complexes\, and yes\, Futures Institutes\, in managing urban and regional futures. It centres around seldom seen Edinburgh – think gasholders\, shale bings and quarries – and pans out\, all the way to New York and beyond to the technodystopias we could end up without the development of new\, radically interdisciplinary methods and the pragmatic\, collective and organised action of concerned actors. \n\n\n\nThis premiere screening will take place in the beautifully restored category A-listed former Infirmary building that is now home to Edinburgh Futures Institute. It will be followed by an informal conversation featuring participants in the film including Windham Campbell prize-winning author Darran Anderson\, Lana Swartz and Daniel Neyland with the filmmaker Sapphire Goss and producer Liz McFall. The event will be chaired by Marion Thain\, EFI’s brand new director. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to attend but you must register via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nSapphire Goss\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSapphire Goss is a British artist who works with experimental moving image and photographic processes to create an ‘analogue uncanny’. Her work has been shown widely in exhibitions\, performances and events globally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz McFall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Liz McFall is Personal Chair in the Sociology of Markets at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Data Civics Observatory at Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDarran Anderson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDarran Anderson is author of Inventory (2021) and Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities\, Nightmare Cities\, and Everywhere in Between (2015) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Neyland\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Neyland is Professor of Digital Futures in the Bristol University Business School. He specialises in collaborative sociotechnical research projects\, often working with computer scientists and engineers to come up with new ways of working and thinking. He is the author of numerous articles exploring governance\, accountability and ethics and coauthor of Can Markets Solve Problems? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLana Swartz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLana Swartz is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She studies social and cultural aspects of money to understand the future of financial technology\, livelihoods\, financial literacy\, and consumer protection in the digital economy. She is currently writing a book on scams\, and is the author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media ranked #12 on a list of “greatest tech books of all time” by The Verge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarion Thain\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarion Thain is Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Professor of Culture and Technology\, University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Edinburgh she founded and led the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London. She is interested particularly in the relationship between culture and technology (considering ‘technology’ in the broadest sense)\, and in formations of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. She is the author of numerous articles exploring the intersections between technology\, modernity and knowledge\, poetry and interdisciplinary aesthetics and a contributor to The Guardian\, Times Higher Education and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/opens-and-closes-the-future-of-edinburghs-histories-premiere/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Reconstructing the Roman Transport Network: New Methods and Approaches to Modelling Mobility from the R3UrbN Project
DESCRIPTION:R3UrbN is an MSCA funded project aimed at modelling the transport network of the Roman Empire. The project employs innovative modelling methodologies to understand mobility and connectivity across the Roman world\, with a particular focus on urbanisation and the reconstructing the complex transport network that connected the urban centres of the Empire. The model centres around a temporal cost surface and cost corridors to construct a network across the entire Roman world. The methodology is widely applicable to periods and regions beyond the immediate focus of this project\, and it is hoped that a robust and up to date tool for modelling specific journeys across the Roman Empire will be produced at the project’s conclusion. \n\n\n\nIn this discussion\, Andrew McLean places the project in the wider context of the archaeology of the Roman Empire\, and how computational approaches are being applied in the field. He then outlines what has been achieved during the first year of the project\, with some smaller scale case study examples. The focus is on the methodologies applied\, particularly the innovative approach to cost surface and cost corridor generation and some of the initial results of testing the model. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew McLean\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew McLean is an archaeologist with experience excavating in Italy\, Turkey and most recently directing a new project in Croatia. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. His thesis centred on modelling the economy of the Roman Adriatic region\, with a particular focus on mobility\, both terrestrial and maritime. From 2021-2023 he worked as a Training Fellow at the CDCS\, primarily offering training in R\, basic statistics and GIS. Since December 2023 he has been a Marie Curie fellow on the R3UrbN project in Spain\, initially at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and now at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. His primary research interests are the economy of the Roman Empire and computational approaches to mobility in archaeology more broadly.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/reconstructing-the-roman-transport-network-new-methods-and-approaches-to-modelling-mobility-from-the-r3urbn-project/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPlease register your attendance by filling in this form. \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)Gabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822.(Pause for winter break) Thurs 16th Jan\, 9.30-10.30EthicsCultural Safety in Participatory Arts-Based Research: How Can We Do Better? | Published in Journal of Participatory Research MethodsThurs 23rd Jan\, 9.30-10.30CollageMaria Abranches & Elena Horton (2024) Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making\, International Journal of Heritage Studies\, 30:1\, 81-102\, Full article: Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage makingThurs 30th Jan\, 9.30-10.30Digital Storytelling“Listen to My Story and You Will Know Me”: Digital Stories as Student‐Centered Collaborative Projects – VINOGRADOVA – 2011 – TESOL Journal – Wiley Online LibraryThurs 6th Feb\, 9.30-10.30ZinesZining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums – Jade French\, Emma Curd\, 2022No meeting this week\, February holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 20th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Archives and Oral HistoriesFull article: Let Our Legacy Continue: beginning an archival journey a creative essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence GalleryThurs 27th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Forum theatreForum Theatre and participatory (Action) research in social work: methodological reflections on caseThurs 6th Mar\, 9.30-10.30PlaylistsThe Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and EducationThurs 13th Mar\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)TBA\n\n\n\nPast reading selections\, for info:\n\n\n\nHaseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk) \n\n\n\nvan Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103 \n\n\n\nVicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285 \n\n\n\nChapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: Berg \n\n\n\nHarrison\, K.\, Jacobsen\, K.\, & Sunderland\, N. (2019). New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Applied Arts & Health\, 10(2)\, 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.2.147_1 \n\n\n\nMartinez\, Francisco (2021) Ethnographic Experiments with Artists\, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibitions as a research method\, London: UCL Press. Chapter 7 ‘Curating ethnographic research’ from this book as a reading for a later week for the group\, OA at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51817 \n\n\n\nMakepeace\, E. (2021). Theatre is knowledge: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and participatory research. In The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (Vol. 2\, pp. 68-78). SAGE Publications Ltd\, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529769432 \n\n\n\nEmmerton\, R.\, & Giselsson\, K. (2024). Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial. Journal of Sociology\, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241255153 \n\n\n\nGabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822. \n\n\n\nSome other books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvon
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-14/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPlease register your attendance by filling in this form. \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)Gabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822.(Pause for winter break) Thurs 16th Jan\, 9.30-10.30EthicsCultural Safety in Participatory Arts-Based Research: How Can We Do Better? | Published in Journal of Participatory Research MethodsThurs 23rd Jan\, 9.30-10.30CollageMaria Abranches & Elena Horton (2024) Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making\, International Journal of Heritage Studies\, 30:1\, 81-102\, Full article: Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage makingThurs 30th Jan\, 9.30-10.30Digital Storytelling“Listen to My Story and You Will Know Me”: Digital Stories as Student‐Centered Collaborative Projects – VINOGRADOVA – 2011 – TESOL Journal – Wiley Online LibraryThurs 6th Feb\, 9.30-10.30ZinesZining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums – Jade French\, Emma Curd\, 2022No meeting this week\, February holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 20th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Archives and Oral HistoriesFull article: Let Our Legacy Continue: beginning an archival journey a creative essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence GalleryThurs 27th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Forum theatreForum Theatre and participatory (Action) research in social work: methodological reflections on caseThurs 6th Mar\, 9.30-10.30PlaylistsThe Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and EducationThurs 13th Mar\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)TBA\n\n\n\nPast reading selections\, for info:\n\n\n\nHaseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk) \n\n\n\nvan Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103 \n\n\n\nVicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285 \n\n\n\nChapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: Berg \n\n\n\nHarrison\, K.\, Jacobsen\, K.\, & Sunderland\, N. (2019). New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Applied Arts & Health\, 10(2)\, 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.2.147_1 \n\n\n\nMartinez\, Francisco (2021) Ethnographic Experiments with Artists\, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibitions as a research method\, London: UCL Press. Chapter 7 ‘Curating ethnographic research’ from this book as a reading for a later week for the group\, OA at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51817 \n\n\n\nMakepeace\, E. (2021). Theatre is knowledge: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and participatory research. In The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (Vol. 2\, pp. 68-78). SAGE Publications Ltd\, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529769432 \n\n\n\nEmmerton\, R.\, & Giselsson\, K. (2024). Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial. Journal of Sociology\, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241255153 \n\n\n\nGabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822. \n\n\n\nSome other books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvon
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-15/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:AI and Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal Music
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh is thrilled to announce an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the intersection of music and AI\, with a particular focus on the performance of voice\, song and the composition of vocal music highlighting AI-based singing or voice processing tools. Building on the AI & chamber music conference organised by IASH Fellow Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina with the University of London earlier this year\, this one-day symposium aims to extend the initial critical conversation. It will provide a forum for peer feedback\, networking and community building for scholars\, creative practitioners and postgraduate research students working at the fascinating crossroads of music\, creativity\, and AI studies. \n\n\n\nCall-for-papers information here (Note: CFP deadline closed\, programme announcement coming soon. Limited spots for paper presentations are available. If you’d still like to present\, please contact us asap). \n\n\n\nAt the heart of this symposium on vocal music is the promotion of diversity in vocal representations via AI\, featuring critical discussions centred around how AI’s creative intelligence challenges and redefines conventional vocal types defined by gender\, ethnic-cultural\, linguistic and neural norms. The symposium celebrates underrepresented voices in two notable ways: by using AI to amplify a diverse range of ‘singing voices’ during the symposium’s signature opera concerts at the Reid Concert Hall\, and by inviting presenters from diverse backgrounds to contribute ‘critical voices’ to the debates surrounding AI vocal songs. To achieve this\, the symposium features a diverse programme that includes: \n\n\n\n(1) Keynote speech: Professor Ricardo Climent\, Professor of Interactive Music and Director of the NOVARS Research Centre at the University of Manchester\, will deliver an engaging keynote titled ‘How to get away with the Ocean of Data and sneak your creative voice’. \n\n\n\n(2) Expert talks: Four invited speakers will share their insights: \n\n\n\n– Dr Emmanouil Benetos (Queen Mary University of London): Perspectives on machine learning paradigms for analysing vocal music. \n\n\n\n– Dr Robert Laidlow (University of Oxford): Reflections on compositional processes using language models as worldbuilding oracles. \n\n\n\n– Dr Hedvig Jalhed (Lund University): Insights on creating characters and casting in AI-based opera. \n\n\n\n– Dr Francesco Bentivegna (University of Bristol): Analysis of voice and AI in relation to storytelling myths. \n\n\n\n(3) Paper presentations: A wonderful collection of over 15 papers around four key themes: Compositional practices & reflections; ethics & aesthetics of AI voice; machine learning\, audio AI & AI-enhanced vocal performance; and legal & economic dimensions. \n\n\n\n(4) Performances: The event features the premiere of Yūrei (Ghost) of the AI Empire\, an immersive ‘science-fiction opera’ prototype by Alexandra Huang-Kokina and Atzi Muramatsu\, alongside the performance of Post-Singularity Songs\, composed by Dr Robert Laidlow. \n\n\n\nSituated at the forefront of critical AI & music scholarship\, this symposium aims to shape both the conceptual and practical development of future AI voice & vocal songs\, ensuring that new AI tools reflect diverse and globally attuned cultural experiences and human values. A social evening with dinner and drinks will follow the conference. \n\n\n\nThe event is graciously supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund from IASH at the University of Edinburgh\, the Digital Research Fund from Edinburgh Centre for Data\, Culture\, and Society (CDCS) and the Conference Grant from Royal Musical Association (RMA). \n\n\n\nThe event is also co-hosted and supported by the new research cluster ‘Creativity\, AI\, and the Human’ at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, led by Dr Caterina Moruzzi.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-and-digital-innovations-for-voice-and-vocal-music/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPlease register your attendance by filling in this form. \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)Gabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822.(Pause for winter break) Thurs 16th Jan\, 9.30-10.30EthicsCultural Safety in Participatory Arts-Based Research: How Can We Do Better? | Published in Journal of Participatory Research MethodsThurs 23rd Jan\, 9.30-10.30CollageMaria Abranches & Elena Horton (2024) Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making\, International Journal of Heritage Studies\, 30:1\, 81-102\, Full article: Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage makingThurs 30th Jan\, 9.30-10.30Digital Storytelling“Listen to My Story and You Will Know Me”: Digital Stories as Student‐Centered Collaborative Projects – VINOGRADOVA – 2011 – TESOL Journal – Wiley Online LibraryThurs 6th Feb\, 9.30-10.30ZinesZining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums – Jade French\, Emma Curd\, 2022No meeting this week\, February holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 20th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Archives and Oral HistoriesFull article: Let Our Legacy Continue: beginning an archival journey a creative essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence GalleryThurs 27th Feb\, 9.30-10.30Forum theatreForum Theatre and participatory (Action) research in social work: methodological reflections on caseThurs 6th Mar\, 9.30-10.30PlaylistsThe Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and EducationThurs 13th Mar\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester)TBA\n\n\n\nPast reading selections\, for info:\n\n\n\nHaseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk) \n\n\n\nvan Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103 \n\n\n\nVicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285 \n\n\n\nChapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: Berg \n\n\n\nHarrison\, K.\, Jacobsen\, K.\, & Sunderland\, N. (2019). New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Applied Arts & Health\, 10(2)\, 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.2.147_1 \n\n\n\nMartinez\, Francisco (2021) Ethnographic Experiments with Artists\, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibitions as a research method\, London: UCL Press. Chapter 7 ‘Curating ethnographic research’ from this book as a reading for a later week for the group\, OA at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51817 \n\n\n\nMakepeace\, E. (2021). Theatre is knowledge: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and participatory research. In The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (Vol. 2\, pp. 68-78). SAGE Publications Ltd\, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529769432 \n\n\n\nEmmerton\, R.\, & Giselsson\, K. (2024). Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial. Journal of Sociology\, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241255153 \n\n\n\nGabrielsson\, H.\, Cronqvist\, A.\, & Asaba\, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research\, 32(5)\, 814-822. \n\n\n\nSome other books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvon
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-16/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:'In the Shadow of Tomorrow' A preview and an invitation
DESCRIPTION:What if agency were to emerge from a machine? What might it decide to do\, to become\, to express? How would we relate to each other or to it? Would we stand before it and embrace it as our creation? Or would our human experience collapse as we know it? And do these thoughts scare you or excite you?   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis performance takes audiences on a compelling journey through humanity’s techno-evolution – from the birth of mathematics to the speculative emergence of autonomous technologies – all conveyed through the universal language of dance.   \n\n\n\nThis short 25-minute preview is an invitation for you to witness\, question\, and reflect on our ever-evolving relationship with innovation and technology; the fear and excitement of the unknown\, our responses to it and the enigmatic processes behind the physical embodiment of artificial intelligence. Emphasising cross-disciplinary collaboration\, this performance unites art\, music\, dance\, and cutting-edge robotics into an explorative and pertinent narrative. The dancers’ interaction with symbolic artefacts culminates in the discovery of a robotic entity\, developed in collaboration with INRIA Lille – whose groundbreaking work in robotics allows us to bring an innovative artefact to life.  \n\n\n\nThis preview\, choreographed by Madeline Squire and performed by herself along with 10 students from diverse dance backgrounds in the MSc Dance Science & Education programme at Moray House School of Education\, is accompanied by an original score composed by Jo Patterson\, musician and composer. The creative direction is led by Alexandre Colle and Camila Jimenez Pol and it is produced and supported by Andrew Coleman. The performance unfolds in four key discoveries\, each representing a revolutionary leap\, and ultimately presenting the audience with the unveiling of a robotic entity and a thought: Technology\, born of civilisation\, would outpace us\, fulfilling the prophecy of gods rising from the chaos of data and code. Will humanity\, having forged its gods\, revert to its animalistic origins\, lost in the ruins of its own ambition? Or will we rise to stand on the shoulders of our created giants?  \n\n\n\nWe offer no answers – only an invitation to think\, to question\, and to imagine what lies ahead. This thought-provoking preview\, driven by a collective vision\, invites you to explore the intersection of progress\, curiosity\, and the unwritten future of humanity.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJo Patterson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJo Patterson is a musician and professional composer for film and television. She has scored award-nominated films which have featured at Cannes\, LFF\, Encounters\, Raindance\, Sundance Film Festival\, Locarno Film Festival\, SICAF Animation Festival\, Edinburgh Film Festival\, SXSW\, Copenhagen Docs\, and Tribeca among many others. Her work has been featured on Channel 4\, Vice and BBC Four. Jo was recently featured as one of the ‘Top 5 Female Film Composers That Should be on Your Radar’ from Film4 and Medium.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeline Squire\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeline Squire is a creative dance artist and choreographer from London\, living in Glasgow. She is a First Artist with Scottish Ballet\, where she has explored her work both with digital dance as well as stage. Madeline’s work is influenced from her own experience of neurological recovery and approach to disability. Celebrating and exploring the beauty in uniqueness\, with a new perspective of working.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandre Colle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandre Colle\, co-creative director of the performance\, brings a multidisciplinary background and incorporates its aesthetics philosophy into robotics. He is currently a final year PhD student in robotics at Edinburgh University. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Konpanion. With a background as an entrepreneur in fashion and luxury hospitality in Paris\, designer at residence for Design Informatics (the University of Edinburgh) and leading designer for the Small Robot Company\, he brings a wealth of experience and perspectives into the field of Human Robot Interaction.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCamila Jimenez Pol\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCamila Jimenez Pol\, co-creative director of the performance\, has a background in Product and Industrial Design from the University of Edinburgh. As the co-founder and COO of Konpanion\, an award-winning robotics start-up\, and in her role as Research Associate in Robotics at Heriot-Watt University\, she has been at the forefront of interdisciplinary innovation. Her versatile creative and technical mindset has ensured she inhabits the border of technology and the arts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYuxi Jiang\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYuxi Jiang is an Edinburgh-based dancer\, choreographer\, and creative director with over 15 years of experience. Trained at Beijing Dance Academy\, she bridges Eastern and Western movement traditions through interdisciplinary choreography. Since 2022\, she has collaborated with major Edinburgh festivals and created award-winning dance films screened internationally. Her latest work\, In the Round\, an Edinburgh Fringe performance blending multilingual storytelling\, contemporary dance\, and Tibetan movement\, received 4-star reviews from The Scotsman. Currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Choreography at the University of Edinburgh\, she explores movement as a living archive of cultural memory\, informing her project Body as a Database\, now developing into a gallery performance and participatory workshop series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Wendy Timmons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWendy Timmons is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Science and Education at the University of Edinburgh\, Wendy has many years of professional arts practice and experience teaching and training dance artists\, young dancers and dance teachers. Wendy has a bachelor’s in philosophy (Classical Ballet and Contextual Studies) from the University of Durham and completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Alongside her teaching\, research and programme development\, Wendy has undertaken many knowledge exchange and applied Dance Science and Education research projects.  
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/in-the-shadow-of-tomorrow-a-preview-and-an-invitation/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Performance
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Jamie & Painting Music
DESCRIPTION:A live performance between poet Kathleen Jamie and visual artist Kate Steenhauer from Painting Music that combines spoken word\, live painting and music created by cutting-edge AI technology. Painting Music uses AI to create music from live-painted drawings\, in real time and unique for each performance. The performance will feature poems specially written by Kathleen Jamie\, and\, while introducing an AI element\, will also question the value of AI in producing artworks. What do we gain\, and what do we lose?  This multifaceted production encompasses a dynamic\, interactive\, and experimental form of art-making\, an artists’ panel session and Q&A opportunity for the audience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nKathleen Jamie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Her work concerns nature\, travel and culture. Her poetry collections include The Overhaul\, which won the 2012 Costa Poetry Prize\, and The Tree House\, which won the Forward prize. Her non-fiction essays are collected in the three highly regarded books Findings\, Sightlines\, and Surfacing\, all regarded as important contributions to the ‘new nature writing’. The Bonniest Companie appeared in 2015 and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. In 2024 she published Cairn\,’ a view from the strange here-and-now\, and The KeelieHawk\, a collection of poems in Scots. Kathleen’s interests are in archaeology\, nature and environment\, travel and art. From 2021-24 Kathleen served as Scotland’s ‘Makar’\, or National Poet. http://www.kathleenjamie.com  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Steenhauer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Steenhauer is a visual artist who has an expansive\, multi-disciplinary practice that includes working in visual arts\, filmmaking and technology including Artificial Intelligence. Painting Music is one of her multifaceted productions that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create music from live-painted drawings\, in real time and unique for each performance. Painting Music is a ground-breaking Research and Development company comprised of Artist and Filmmaker Kate Steenhauer and Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers Dr Starkey and Jack Caven. The team explores how cutting-edge AI techniques can facilitate multifaceted relationships between music and visual art. Most AI techniques that are used in artistic endeavors are off-the-shelf methods that are black box and cannot explain what they are doing. Painting Music however uses algorithms that are explainable\, which is innovative even in the field of AI\, and the combination of AI\, painting and music represents to the best of our knowledge a world’s first.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Patrick James Errington\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick James Errington is a Scottish-Canadian poet\, translator\, multidisciplinary researcher and educator. His poems appear regularly in magazines and anthologies worldwide and have received numerous awards\, including the Scottish Book Trust’s Callan Gordon Award and the Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. His recent collection\, the swailing (McGill-Queens University Press) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and won the John Pollard International Poetry Prize. His current translation (into English) of the French-Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran’s Notebooks is forthcoming from New York Review Books. As an academic\, Patrick’s research draws together literary theory\, cognitive psychology\, neuroscience\, and creative practice to examine how creative responses to poetry can enhance readers’ aesthetic experience. Born in Canada\, Patrick lives in Scotland where he’s a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/kathleen-jamie-painting-music/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Performance
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SUMMARY:Voices for Transgender Equality: Trans Rights Activism Under Trump
DESCRIPTION:Transgender rights have emerged as an important topic of everyday conversation across the country in recent years and become\, in many ways\, the flashpoint du jour of the American culture wars. During the first Trump administration in particular\, transgender people were thrust onto the center stage of US politics. Faced with unrelenting hostility and an increasingly complicated media system\, transgender activists crafted new communication strategies to fight for their equality\, stall attempts to undermine their rights\, and win the support of large swathes of the public.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, TJ Billard offers an insider’s view into transgender activism during the first two years of the first Trump administration. Drawing on extensive on-the-ground observation at the National Center for Transgender Equality\, Billard shows how these activists developed an unlikely blend of online and offline strategies to saturate a diverse ecology of national news outlets\, local and community media outlets across the country\, and both public and private conversations across multiple social media platforms with voices in support of their cause.  \n\n\n\nMoreover\, these activists navigated the complex flows of information and ideas among these different domains of the communication system as they worked to shape the national conversation on transgender rights. As Billard argues\, this movement occurred at a very particular time in the development of the media system\, with “new” media shaping the movement in important ways that are both generalizable to other social movements and unique to transgender activism. Facing a second Trump administration that promises further battles over transgender rights\, Billard provides key insights into the new business-as-usual of mediated politics and valuable lessons for more effective activism.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/voices-for-transgender-equality-trans-rights-activism-under-trump/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Fern Brady in conversation with Michael Pedersen
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between comedian Fern Brady and poet\, University of Edinburgh writer-in-residence\, and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen. Fern and Michael will discuss comedy\, creativity and books\, including Fern’s hilarious and heart-breaking memoir Strong Female Character. Covering the years from realising she had autism in her teens to her diagnosis at 34\, Fern tells the story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the ‘right kind’ of woman’.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nFern Brady\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFern Brady is a woman. She is also autistic. She was born in Scotland (no\, not Glasgow). She has no presets for being a ‘good woman’ – she never hated her body or indulged in messy millennial shame. She now lives out of wedlock in London. She has zero children. Fern’s caustic wit\, exceptional writing and electric stage craft has made her one of the UK’s hottest comedy stars. As seen on Live from the BBC\, Live from the Comedy Store\, The Russell Howard Hour\, and Live at the Apollo. She’s had viral success with her BBC Life Lessons and supported Frankie Boyle and Katherine Ryan on tour. She can currently be seen on Taskmaster on Channel 4. Her triumph of a debut book\, Strong Female Character\, won\, among other accolades\, Best Non-Fiction at the Nero Book Awards and the Books Are My Bag Awards 2023\, and was the winner of the Audiobook of the Year 2024 at the British Book Awards. She has just announced a second book\, High Energy Unpleasant\, due for release in 2026.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Michael Pedersen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author\, the Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh\, and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut\, Boy Friends\, was published by Faber & Faber to rave reviews and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice 2022. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry\, the most recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems – which won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and The Scottish National Book Awards and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has attracted praise from the likes of: Stephen Fry\, Bernardine Evaristo\, Kae Tempest\, Irvine Welsh\, Nicola Sturgeon and many more. His debut novel\, Muckle Flugga\, will be published by Faber in May 2025. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/fern-brady-in-conversation-with-michael-pedersen/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Talk/Discussion
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