Tech Tuesdays #3: Automation – Your New Business Partner
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomExplore how automation and artificial intelligence could run the back office of your tourism or hospitality business.
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The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
Open Methods for Digital Conservation of Historic Musical Instruments
Room 2.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis talk discusses work carried out at the NEMUS project on the topic of digital conservation of historic stringed instruments.
Free
Alternative Futures – Who Decides?
Dovecot Studios 10 Infirmary Street, EdinburghThe Binks Hub and the Ripple Project warmly invite you to an exhibition of co-created art that challenges the status quo and offers an alternative view of what communities need to flourish.
Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.
Free
Wikidata, biographical lives, and linked infrastructures of women’s work 1870-1950
Room 0.10, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghA project deep dive by James Baker, Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton.
Free
Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.
Free
Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomAs part of Black History Month, this event will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education.
Free
AISOMA: Wayne McGregor x Edinburgh Futures Institute
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghA new performance from Studio Wayne McGregor and composer Chris Lyons.
Free
CTMF Flagship Lecture with Professor C. Thi Nguyen
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin this Centre for Technomoral Futures Flagship Lecture event with award-winning author and philosopher, Professor C. Thi Nguyen, on technology’s role in shaping human values.
The Future of Education: Crisis
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do.
Free
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Shannon Vallor
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomJoin us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Shannon Vallor.
Free
The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
Critical Data Studies Cluster Coffee Morning
Room 1.82, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe Critical Data Studies Cluster at the Futures Institute invites you to join a morning coffee and natter about datafication and data-driven systems.
The Future of Education: Utopia
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
Free
The Politics of Numbers: Queer Data and the Counting of LGBTQ Communities
Room 2.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghDr Kevin Guyan shares his work on queer approaches to the collection, analysis and presentation of data.
Free
A digital economy in crisis: Palestine’s tech sector and the road to economic recovery
MacLaren Stuart Room (G.159) University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EdinburghThis event brings Gaza Sky Geeks in conversation with researchers at the University of Edinburgh to discuss how Palestine's digital economy can remain resilient in the current crisis.
The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
Poetry for Change and Action
This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism.
Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis event will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
Free
Beyond Precarity: Imaginaries, Constraints, and the Meaning of Platform Work
This talk with Arturo Arriagada will analyse the daily routines and economic pressures faced by today's digital workers.
Free
Entangled Singing with Rhubaba Choir
Edinburgh Futures Institue, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis workshop will generate material which will be collectively sung by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in flowing, following, falling.
Free
Entangled Performing with Karen Christopher
Edinburgh Futures Institue, Level 4 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be performed by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in falling, flowing, following.
Free
The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
Join this weekly reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
