Project News
Barbara Adam interviewed for Stefan Skrimshire Film
'Beyond the Tipping Point?' is a documentary film about climate, action and the future. It is a free resource for groups to provoke discussion and open up debate.
www.beyondthetippingpoint.com
Bambo Soyinka awarded PhD
Bambo Soyinka (PhD) was awarded her Futures Project Doctorate on Thursday 24th June 2010, for her thesis entitled Film Futures: Imagining the future through the "here and now" of documentary film
Barbara Adam takes up Visiting Fellowship
Throughout October 2009, Professor Barbara Adam will be a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy.
Chris Groves to BRASS
As of 26 March 2008, Dr Chris Groves has taken up a post at BRASS, a research centre at Cardiff University which combines expertise from the Business School, the Law School and the School of City and Regional Planning.
Information on Chris' work at BRASS is available here.
Future Matters Now Published
Co-authored by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves, the monograph Future Matters has now been published by Brill. It is available direct from the publisher.
Amazon link
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International Award for Excellence
Dr Chris Groves has been awarded the International Award for Excellence in the Humanities for his paper, ' Technological Futures and Non-Reciprocal Responsibility’, published in 2006 in the International Journal for the Humanities
The paper was selected by the editors as the best of the ten highest-ranked papers emerging from the referee process in 2005-06.
The award will be presented at this year's International Humanities Conference in Paris.
Project Concepts Glossary
A new glossary of central concepts from the In Pursuit of the Future project is now available for download.
Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics Publication Date
A monograph, entitled Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics and co-authored by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves will be published in September 2007 by Brill in the Netherlands.
Focusing on the relationship between social practices for knowing, creating and minding the future, the book investigates how the interdependencies between these practices have become broken in contemporary societies, and explores openings for change.
Future Matters - Futures Known, Created and Minded
An International Conference
Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building
September 4 – 6, 2006
The conference brought together artists, academics, entrepreneurs and policy makers to consider the future. Questions of the future were addressed under three overarching themes.
- Knowing futures - relates to our ability to anticipate futures through art, science and imagination.
- Creating futures - relates to industrial societies capacity to produce long-term futures. We produce such futures everyday through work and play, politics and technology.
- Minding futures - Relates to sustainability and the need to know, care and take responsibility for long term futures of our making that are already underway.
The conference presented a unique opportunity for speakers to address an audience beyond their usual field of expertise, and proved to be a lively multi-disciplinary event.
Keynote speakers were:
To view a list of presentations (some downloadable conference papers are available) please click here
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