Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
Join us at Edinburgh Futures Institute for a panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library!
About Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
| 22nd November 2024 | |
| 6pm - 7:30pm | |
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Edinburgh Futures Institute The University of Edinburgh 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh South EH3 9EF |
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To mark the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library, we gather to discuss what it means to be “futures literate”. We explore relationships between place, knowledge, imagination and time in making meaning from and engaging with different futures.
Katie Paterson (born 1981, Scotland) is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world, Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment. Combining a Romantic sensibility with a research-based approach, conceptual rigour and coolly minimalist presentation, her work collapses the distance between the viewer and the most distant edges of time and the cosmos.
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