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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Environmental Ethics & Medical Reproduction by Cristina Richie
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, a new book by Dr Cristina Richie (Centre for Technomoral Futures at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute). In this book\, Dr Richie evaluates ‘medicalized reproduction’ (MR) from an environmental perspective. From pre-conception gamete retrieval to in-vitro fertilization (IVF)\, to birthing suites\, MR has an enormous carbon footprint. But\, unlike other areas of high-carbon health care\, such as organ transplantation or chemotherapy\, medicalized reproduction does not treat\, cure\, or prevent disease. It is supported by an economized medical industry\, and as such\, is open for ethical scrutiny. The event will be followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Cristina Richie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Cristina Richie is Lecturer of Ethics of Technology at the University of Edinburgh. She has previously held positions as Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at Delft University of Technology (2020-23)\, Assistant Professor in Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Brody School of Medicine\, East Carolina University (2017-20)\, and Visiting Assistant Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (2019).
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/book-launch-environmental-ethics-medical-reproduction-by-cristina-richie/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:A New Sound
DESCRIPTION:We are living at a time of extraordinary crisis. What can we do collectively to pick a path through the current uncertainty? Join us for a day of creative discussion with other makers of multi-disciplinary and music driven performance to identify how we overcome barriers and envision a future together. \n\n\n\nA New Sound is for artists in the field of opera\, music theatre\, music driven performance. The day will be led by Mahogany Opera\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, and Snap – Elastic. Please note that some of the sessions will be quite physical\, so please wear clothes you are comfortable to move around in. \n\n\n\nFollowing the day at the Edinburgh Futures Institute we would love for you to join us for a drink. Location: TBC. \n\n\n\nThe Day\n\n\n\nFinding Common Ground\n\n\n\nIntroductory and closing sessions led by Frederic Wake-Walker\, Mahogany Opera \n\n\n\nWhat burning questions\, ideas and concerns would you like to explore today? Through movement\, singing and writing exercises inspired by Mahogany’s recent Great Learning project\, we will come together as a group\, gather expectations and themes\, collectively define the communal threads of the day and formulate some key actions and principles to take away with us. \n\n\n\nBeing a freelance artist making music and theatre can often feel like a lonely or isolated place to be. Let’s find some solace in sharing and strength in community. \n\n\n\nHow to Get Things Going with the Skills You Already Have\n\n\n\nA Self – Producing Workshop with Snap – Elastic \n\n\n\nEszter Marsalko and Claire Willoughby of Snap-Elastic will lead a workshop aimed at artists interested in self producing\, to unpack how best to get started and realise your work. How can we support each other and pool our resources at a time when they are most scarce? In this workshop\, we will connect with our inner Artist\, and explore the ways in which those creative intuitions can best serve us\, and our community as a whole. \n\n\n\nUtopia Lab\n\n\n\nSession led by Jennifer Williams\, Edinburgh Futures Institute \n\n\n\nUtopia 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\, we will be dreaming about the future of opera and art-making: what is your utopian vision? What do you want for your own work in the future\, and how do you envisage the community and artform in 10 years\, 50 years\, 100 years? What can we learn about these desires and imagined futures that can influence how we act and create today? What does it mean to make work that can change the way we think and behave\, that can encourage us to think about the world in new ways\, that can inspire and support positive change… and also be a wonder to behold? \n\n\n\nUtopia is movement\, meditation\, poetry and imagination – you can participate in ways that feel good for you! For more information about Utopia Labs\, please see our website: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/ \n\n\n\nA more detailed schedule will be distributed to attendees a few days before the event. \n\n\n\nAbout the session leaders\n\n\n\nMahogany Opera\n\n\n\nMahogany Opera is a leading commissioner and producer of new opera and music theatre. We work across the UK and internationally. Our vision of opera as an inclusive\, collaborative\, and dynamic artform informs our aim to stretch the boundaries of what opera can be and who it is for. \n\n\n\nWe are committed to developing diverse artists and audiences through three programmes:Snappy Operas – award-winning participatory young people’s programmeVarious Stages – R&D programme supporting artists and new ideasCommissioning innovative work for the stage through partnerships \n\n\n\nEdinburgh Futures Institute\n\n\n\nEFI is a cross-University institute\, with active working relationships with Schools across the University. At the Edinburgh Futures Institute we challenge\, create\, and make change happen. We are focused on tackling today’s increasingly complex issues by bringing people and disciplines together to spark the unexpected and make better futures possible. \n\n\n\nSnap-Elsatic\n\n\n\nSnap – Elastic is an artist-led performance collective making multidisciplinary work for diverse audiences. The three core members are experienced artists and creative leaders\, with backgrounds in theatre\, clown\, opera and movement\, and they work hard to embrace innovation\, to play\, and to engage in cross-form performance and collaboration.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-new-sound/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Futures Dreaming 
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’.1  \n\n\n\nIn this session invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia\, which we will (individually or in groups) respond to by creating our own artistic\, thoughtful and creative mini-Utopias. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change.   \n\n\n\n11am-12pm: Introductions and Presentations  \n\n\n\n12pm-1pm: Lunch and Dreaming/Making  \n\n\n\n1pm-2pm: Integration\, Contemplation\, Sharing\, Discussion   \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\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\nImportant Notice: This event may be photographed and/or recorded for promotional or recruitment materials for the University and University approved third parties. For further information please contact the organisers.    \n\n\n\n1Sargent\, Lyman Tower (2005). Rüsen\, Jörn; Fehr\, Michael; Reiger\, Thomas W. (eds.). The Necessity of Utopian Thinking: A cross-national perspective. Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Report). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-57181-440-1.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan McCall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan McCall is a Scottish Master Perfumer with over 15 years experience in perfumery. Having worked for a decade as a consultant and perfumer for some of the UK’s most successful fragrance brands\, McCall founded Jorum Laboratories in 2010. Euan’s approach combines advanced perfumery techniques with instinct. Each Jorum creation presents wearers with new olfactory profiles that are original and of the highest quality. Combining a love for natural aromatic essences\, advanced and high-performance manufactured materials and the interplay between the two media every Jorum creation is a rich aromatic story waiting to be discovered. Jorum Studio was founded by McCall and partner Chloe Mullen in 2019. Jorum Studio creates innovative perfumes that are exciting in their newness as well as being highly wearable. Jorum Studio has gained a large and loyal fanbase across the world. www.jorumstudio.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPupak Haghighi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPupak Haghighi is learning to become indigenous to the West Coast of Scotland by building a relationship with the sea and landscape in Moidart and the indigenous community living in Glenuig. She was born in Iran and grew up near the Caspian Sea. She emigrated to Japan with her family in 1984 to get away from the Iran-Iraq war. In 1989-1990 she joined a programme to study peace-making around the world ~ but experienced a deeper war than the one back home. She wrote Theatre O\, Healing from War\, Co-Creating Paradise Earth\, thirty years after her peace studies around the world experience. Theatre O offers a stage to explore the facets of our relationships to the archetypes and to our original stories. By accessing our original stories\, we are able to regain our wholeness. Pupak offers workshops on rewilding ourselves and the world with her husband\, Alan Watson Featherstone in Glen Affric. She has set up a Scottish Charity\, Trees for Hope to facilitate the process of ecological recovery in her native countries. She is a storyteller\, a Scaravelli yoga practitioner\, a massage and somatic healer\, and co-creator of the 1001 mosaic angels for the Fertile Crescent art work. pupakhaghighi.net \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEkaterina Shurkova\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEkaterina Shurkova is a cognitive neuroscientist\, interested in how we connect with the world: how we learn\, play\, communicate\, solve problems\, and change our mind. Her research interests lie in creative problem solving and seeing the world in terms of relations\, including the role of symbols\, metaphors\, and an awareness of space around us in our growth and problem solving. She also has an interest in research on the mind and the brain\, as well as in studies on animism\, ritual\, and ceremony. Ekaterina is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Psychology and runs a private coaching practice\, Symbolic Space.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-futures-dreaming-2/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Futures Dreaming
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. The term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book \n\n\n\nUtopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean.  The word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόπος (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’. \n\n\n\nIn this session invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia\, which we will (individually or in groups\, as preferred) respond to by creating our own artistic and creative mini-Utopias. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change.  \n\n\n\n\n11am-12pm: Introductions and Presentations \n\n\n\n12pm-1pm: Lunch and Dreaming/Making \n\n\n\n1pm-2pm: Sharing  Lunch 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\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\nImportant Notice: This event may be photographed and/or recorded for promotional or recruitment materials for the University and University approved third parties. For further information please contact the organisers. \n\n\n\nImage credit: Andrew Perry
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-futures-dreaming/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Love Machine: Spring 2023
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