Living with Robots
Playfair Library Hall Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
A panel discussion among experts on what it means to ‘live well’ with robots.
Free
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Reimagining Universities: Speculative Scenarios for Higher Education
Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Room G.03 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomProfessors from the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh will share their speculative scenarios for Higher Education Futures in an event which will be a mix of research-sharing, storytelling and collaboration.
Free
LIMBIC: Ego, Elegy, Ecstasy
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
This audio-visual performance by composer Philly Holmes responds to Limbic, a poetry collection by Peter Scalpello. Through words, sound and imagery, the performance traces a personal narrative exploring intimacy and queer discovery, enacting the confusions and graces of a queer life through hybridity of storytelling forms.
Free
Robotic Poems: A Writing Workshop with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Virtual Event
In this workshop, participants will learn basic coding elements to create a simple poem generator. The emphasis is on play and experimentation, with some background information on literary techniques. Participants will experience how computational poetics and computational thinking can jumpstart or become part of a creative writing process.
Free
The Inquisitive Bodymind: Scottish Dance Theatre and Dr Marisa De Andrade
Traverse Bar, Traverse Theatre 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe multidisciplinary event will feature short performances by Scottish Dance Theatre’s dancers, including an excerpt from ‘Thin h/as h/air’ by choreographer Pauline Torzuoli. Inspired by the natural phenomena of Itla Okla and Hair Ice, this playful and poetic solo work follows the journey of a man: from scientist to the spirit of a tree.
Free
For the Love of Fashion
Virtual Event
Our love of fashion is driving an unsustainable system of manufacturing, distributing and disposing of our clothing that is impacting our planet. How can we change our behaviour and the system for the love of the planet? How can we harness new technology such as Artificial Intelligence, robotics and informatics, and creative tools such as Augmented and Virtual Reality?
Free
Rule of the Robots: A Conversation with Martin Ford
Virtual Event
A discussion with Rule of the Robots author Martin Ford, who argues that the true AI revolution is yet to come.
Free
Post-Internet Pleasure as an Act of Poetics
Virtual Event
This writing workshop will look at a range of writers and theories, exploring interdisciplinary strands of New Media hybrid writing. You will be provided with the tools and ideas to craft your own digital poetics, and means by which to use the virtual on the page, creating and fostering a relationship between the machine and the author.
Free
Hybrid Humans: Harry Parker and Bertolt Meyer
Virtual Event
How can the latest developments in technology, robotics and implants lead to powerful and liberating possibilities for what bodies can be? In this event, speakers share their eye-opening accounts of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering what it means to be human.
Free
Hate in the Digital Era: Lilia Giugni and Matthew Williams
Virtual Event
How has technology exacerbated systems of oppression in the 21st century, and what can we do to resist? This event features a conversation with authors Matthew Williams and Lilia Giugni whose works examine different yet intersecting issues of human behaviour in the digital era.
Free
Utopia Lab: Futures Dreaming
Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square 50 George Square, Newington, Edinburgh, United KingdomOur Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. In this session invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia, which we will (individually or in groups) respond to by creating our own artistic and creative mini-Utopias.
Free
CI Labs 23: FESTIVAL FUTURES
Join us as we explore the themes, ideas and methods our researchers used to produce FestForward magazine – a fictional, speculative cultural magazine, set in 2030.
It’s All About the Feelings…
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomA creative research project led by Beverley Hood, an artist and Reader in Technological Embodiment & Creative Practice at the University of Edinburgh, featuring actor, Pauline Goldsmith. How does sentiment recognition technology actually work and how accurate is it? This performance will reveal how emotional AI databases actually work, behind the smoke and mirrors.
Free
AI in Banking: The Case for Customers
Auditorium, Business School, The University of Edinburgh 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
A panel discussion with experts in banking and fintech who will examine the benefits and risks of using AI in financial services.
Free
Galvanised: Big Mind – Collective Behaviour and Collective Intelligence
Playfair Library Hall Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Virtual Event
This Galvanised seminar addresses the opportunities that collective behaviour and collective intelligence may offer for addressing a wide range of social and political issues. In keeping with the dual science/arts theme of Galvanised, the seminar will be presented by a biological scientist and a social and political scientist.
Free
Technomoral Conversations: Technologically Mediated Intimacy
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
Technomoral Conversations is a “fireside chat” series organised by The Centre for Technomoral Futures. This event will focus on our relationships with machines, from robot pets and therapeutic companions to apps for dating and romance, to technologies embedded in our bodies.
Free
Speculative Forensics: Machine Learning and the Rise of Vocal Portraiture
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
As part of Adversarial Acoustics Unit Test (Martin Disley and Murad Khan) will screen their new short film, investigating the relationship between vocal forensics and machine learning through a mix of critical and speculative aesthetic practice.
Free
Catharsis In the Age of the Metaverse
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe rise of Virtual, Augmented, and Extended Reality (AR/XR) with their applications urge us to investigate whether “catharsis” is still conceivable, in hybrid or entirely artificial environments; and how a reconfigured concept of “catharsis” can be envisioned as part of the co-evolution of human, natural, and artificial life forms.
Free
Creating Playful Comics Together with AI: A Workshop with Yana Knight
Virtual Event
In this workshop, artist Yana Knight will share a few ideas and techniques of working with AI as a creative medium and the potential that lurks within this collaboration to extend, support and enrich creativity.
Free
Antagonistic Sextet: A Performance by Raw Green Rust
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
Raw Green Rust are an improvising laptop trio that make abstract glitch-dub that draws on wide ranging musical interests and interconnectedness. For this event, the trio will perform as an ‘Antagonistic Sextet’ with and against their own performance history.
Free
The New Real Salon: Exploring the Future of AI and the Arts
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hybrid Event
The New Real’s research team and newly commissioned artist will present insights into what is happening in this area and new work currently in development using The New Real Observatory Platform, an unboxed AI tool created with and for artists.
Free
Text & Data Analysis SUMMER SCHOOL 2023
The Summer School is an intensive, 5-day, in-person event, with a heavy practical focus. It consists of two simultaneously run streams: A Gentle Introduction to Coding for Data Analysis, and Text and Data Analysis in the Wild. Find out more about each stream and which best suits your needs below.
Economics of Financial Technology Conference
The Economics of Financial Technology conference, organised by the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the University of Edinburgh Business School, brings together academics, policymakers, and finance professionals to share new insights and discuss the critical issues related to the application of technology to the practice of finance in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
Artificial Intelligence in Publishing
Online EdinburghA free online training event exploring the rapidly evolving role of artificial intelligence in the publishing industry.
Doors Open Day at South College Street
South College Street 13-15 South College Street, EdinburghTake a tour of the South College Street building during Doors Open Day.
The Violence Prevention Forum: A Dialogical Approach to Multi-Sectoral Engagement to Prevent Violence in South Africa
Room G.07, Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Newington, Edinburgh, United KingdomTalk and discussion with Dr Chandré Gould about collaborative and multi-sectoral approach to violence prevention.
Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase 2023
Central Hall 2 West Tollcross, EdinburghThe Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase is an exciting two-day hybrid event and exhibition to explore how data-driven innovation is changing the world around us.
Human-Centric Finance
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomFintech companies are constantly innovating and developing new products and services. However, while many of the technological solutions are user-centred, they are not necessarily human-centred. They typically focus on process, user experience and scalability, but often neglect the deeper needs, emotions, instincts, and social factors that impact people's financial wellbeing. This event challenges fintech leaders ... Read more
Citizens Data Agency Event Series – What mobilises people against Big-Tech?
Online EdinburghIn this event, Dr. Elinor Carmi will share her latest research report titled “What mobilises people against Big-Tech?”.
Edinburgh Futures Conversations: The Future of Leadership
McEwan Hall Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis flagship panel event opens the fifth in the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Conversations series.
Free
Edinburgh Futures Conversations: A Performance
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis performance is part of our Futures Conversations series on the Future of Leadership.
Sounding the Ice Factory
West Court, Edinburgh College of Art 74 Lauriston Place, EdinburghMichael Begg presents work undertaken with People Ocean Planet, Marine Alliance of Science and Technology in this seminar presentation.
The sounds of feeling well, feeling cared for
Online EdinburghLearning about the mental health needs of care-experienced young people.
Music-making beyond the classroom
Online EdinburghHow music in alternative spaces is making a difference to young people and their communities.
Handing Over Control with David Runciman
Playfair Library Hall Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin Professor David Runciman in conversation with Professor Shannon Vallor about his latest book, The Handover.
FutureGaze: The Future of Creative Inclusion
Online EdinburghJoin us for FutureGaze, a series of conversations providing time out to reflect and gaze into the future of the creative industries.
Seizing the Means of Computation with Cory Doctorow
Online EdinburghCory Doctorow will be in conversation about his book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
The Stand Comedy Club 5 York Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomHosted by comedian Susan Morrison, and now in its eleventh year, CODI is ninety minutes of rapid-fire research from some of the finest minds in the country.
Black History Month: Leaning into the Meta-Physics of Liberation
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis Black History Month event will take on a long-discussed topic in the Black and Afrocentric movements across the world: the challenged idea and risks of leadership.
Edinburgh Reforms: regulatory frameworks for driving growth and competitiveness
Auditorium, Business School, The University of Edinburgh 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis lecture will cover the regulatory issues emanating from the implementation of the UK government’s vision for an internationally competitive and innovative financial services sector in the UK.
Defiant Lives: The History of the Disability Rights Movement
Online EdinburghA prerecorded conversation about the Disability Rights Movement with the makers of the film Defiant Lives.
