#human futures

In June 2016, scholars from across the University of Glasgow gathered to share ideas on the future of humanity. 18 self-selected speakers gave 15-minute presentations from their own disciplinary perspective. The programme of talks was diverse, including ideas as far-flung as the French Revolution and Fossils, Dyson Spheres, Prosthetics and Geoengineering. The main objective of the event was to facilitate disciplinary discussion away from the everyday demands of academic life. My colleague, Rachel Hunt, and I were asked to document the event. To do this we interviewed participants to camera, set up a twitter hashtag, designed post cards to collect feedback, and installed a tree branch in the seminar room where participants could attached paper leaves with old ideas written on brown leaves and newe ideas on green. Following the event we produced a three-page report on the event and a short video with extracted from the interviews.

https://vimeo.com/175297650