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  • August 2025

  • Wed 13
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    Future Library

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Talk/Discussion
    13th August 2025 8:15 PM - 9:30 PM BST
    Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.

    £15.50
  • Fri 15
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    Utopia Lab

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Workshop
    15th August 2025 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM BST
    Room 1.52, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    Exploring how we can repair objects with creative writing and sculpture, to imagine positive futures, affecting present change.

    £35
  • Sat 16
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    Repair Cafe Edinburgh

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Workshop
    16th August 2025 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM BST
    Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Got something that’s broken? Repair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item for repair.

    Free
  • Sun 17
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    Halle O’Neal: The Buddhist Approach to Healing

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Talk/Discussion
    17th August 2025 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM BST
    Spiegeltent, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.

    £15.50
  • Tue 19
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    Spark Exhibition

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Exhibition
    19th August 2025 10:00 AM - 24th August 2025 9:00 PM BST
    Anthea Bond Exhibition Room, Level 1, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    Young people from the Alternative School at Spartans Community Foundation are back at the festival, with a new exhibition.

    Free
  • Tue 19
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    Repair Skills Workshop with EFI Makerspace

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Workshop
    19th August 2025 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST
    Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Sharpen your technical repair skills under the guidance of EFI's Makerspace team.

    Free
  • Sat 23
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    Repair Cafe Edinburgh

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Workshop
    23rd August 2025 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM BST
    Edinburgh Futures Institute, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Got something that’s broken? Repair Cafes are free community events where you can bring your item for repair.

    Free
  • Sun 24
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    Richard Susskind: Navigating the AI Revolution

    • Edinburgh International Book Festival
    • Talk/Discussion
    24th August 2025 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM BST
    Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.

    £15.50
  • September 2025

  • Tue 9
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    The Future of Digital Place

    • Creative Industries
    • Talk/Discussion
    9th September 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BST
    Online Edinburgh

    Join us for a series of conversations that explore the future of our creative industries and practices.

    Free
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Making Waves

Making Waves is an exciting programme of events that explores creativity in different forms, crossing areas such as the arts, technology, science, and the environment..

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Learning Curves

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

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POWER TRIP

Our Autumn 2023 programme of events explored leadership in all its forms – from the seats of power to the front lines of activist movements and even in our own workplaces.

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Love machine

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

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First Breath

Our Autumn 2022 programme featured more than 20 events exploring crisis, migration, displacement and equality coalescing around the theme of Climate Justice.

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

Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

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

Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

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

Event attendee, Love Machine Spring 2023

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

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Meet the events team

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Alice Disley

Events Co-ordinator

Fraser Pringle

Project & Events Administrator
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Ioannis Kalkounos

Programme Manager
Lewis Williams

Lewis Williams

Events Technician

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