Seminar 4: Forecasting the Future

8th November 2013, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London

Organised by Rebecca Coleman and Richard Tutton

Welcome and Introduction

Rebecca Coleman (Sociology, Goldsmiths) and

Richard Tutton (Sociology, Lancaster)

  

‘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

‘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

‘[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

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

Crowd-sourcing planning for the conference

Led by Michelle Bastian, Edinburgh College of Art