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  • May 2025

  • Wed 21
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    MSc Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Information Session

    • Postgraduate online open day
    21st May 2025 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM BST

    Join this online information session to find out more about the MSc in Data and AI Ethics.

  • Thu 22
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    MSc Cultural Heritage Futures: Information Session

    • Postgraduate online open day
    22nd May 2025 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM BST

    Join this online information session to find out more about the MSc in Cultural Heritage.

  • Thu 22
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    MSc Future Governance: Information Session

    • Postgraduate online open day
    22nd May 2025 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM BST

    Join this online information session to find out more about the MSc in Future Governance.

  • Thu 22
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    The Power of Purpose: workshop series

    • Workshop
    22nd May 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM BST
    Online Edinburgh

    Led by Take Note, these workshops will support Scottish charities and grassroots social change organisations in creating effective impact.

    Free
  • Thu 22
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    MSc Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society: Information Session

    • Postgraduate online open day
    22nd May 2025 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM BST

    Join this online information session to find out more about the MSc in Narrative Futures: Art, Data and Society

  • Thu 22
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    MSc Education Futures: Information Session

    • Postgraduate online open day
    22nd May 2025 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM BST

    Join this online information session to find out more about the MSc in Education Futures.

  • Thu 22
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    Traveltech Meet up

    • Mixer
    • Tourism & Festivals
    22nd May 2025 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM BST
    Ward 3.40 - Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

    Join us for an informal evening of networking, reconnecting, and building the future of Travel Tech.

    Free
  • Thu 22
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    Speaking Towards One Another Opening Performance

    • Performance
    22nd May 2025 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM BST
    Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Join the premiere of the first full performance of Speaking Towards One Another in Inspace this May.

    Free
  • June 2025

  • Thu 5
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    The Power of Purpose: workshop series

    • Workshop
    5th June 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM BST
    Online Edinburgh

    Led by Take Note, these workshops will support Scottish charities and grassroots social change organisations in creating effective impact.

    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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