highlights
We had a party…
We celebrated two big milestones: 10 years of our research centre, and 20 of our Masters programme.
Planetarised humanity in the Swiss Alps
The wonderful Villars Anticipation Workshop on Planetarised Humanity, hosted by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator.
New Masters course: Utopia and the future
I taught my new Masters course this month – Utopia and the Future – with some brilliant student work emerging.
The Future of Education: AI – a panel discussion at the Edinburgh Futures Institute
Conversations around AI in education are shifting from captivation and adaptation to criticism and pushback.
New paper: Speculative futures for higher education
Jen Ross and I published a paper which sets out the methodological basis of our Higher Education Futures work.
Online Educa Berlin 2023: the futures we choose
How do we reclaim a sense of individual and institutional agency in the face of rampant techno-determinism in education?
Actions toward digital education utopia
Utopia – what are we supposed to actually do?
New paper: Digital Education Utopia
My new paper, just out, uses Levitas’s ‘utopia as method’ as a way to approach the histories of digital education and its utopian possibilities.
Scorched earth technologies: work-in-progress seminar
The recording from my recent ‘work-in-progress’ seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is now online. It’s on the theme of utopia, re-imagining possibility through Ruth Levitas’ Utopia as Method.
Podcast: desiring otherwise
I recently recorded a podcast with Felipe Sánchez, as part of the ‘future of education’ series at Lancaster University.