Seminar 4: Forecasting the Future

8th November 2013, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London

Organised by Rebecca Coleman and Richard Tutton

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Welcome and Introduction

Rebecca Coleman (Sociology, Goldsmiths) and

Richard Tutton (Sociology, Lancaster)

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‘Endogenous futures and transformative scenarios’

Arie Rip, Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Response: Paul Martin, Sociology, University of Sheffield

Listen to the talk here: Rip and Martin

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‘Inclined plan(e)s. The revolutionary business futures of Dupont de Nemours, Father and Sons & Co. (1797-1804)’

Martin Giraudeau, Accounting, LSE

Response: Joe Deville, Sociology, Goldsmiths

Listen to the talk here: Giradeau and Deville

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‘[Big] data futures, from the street’

Alex Taylor, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Response: Bethan Evans, Geography, University of Liverpool

More information on Alex Taylor’s Tenison Road Big Data project here: http://tenisonroad.com

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Workshop: Why do methods for imagining and materialising the future matter to austerity, and why does austerity matter to them?

Led by Michelle Bastian, Edinburgh College of Art

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Crowd-sourcing planning for the conference

Led by Michelle Bastian, Edinburgh College of Art