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Interview: Human-centred design and curiosity with Tianxiao Wang

New technologies have the potential to impact and change people's lives for the better. In this interview, we sit down with design...

Making the ‘invisible’ visible by Israt Abdur

At the end of 2020, we launched our poetry competition ‘This is the Year’. Working collaboratively with Theatre Peckham and poet, Belinda...

Interview: Curiosity, questions and human qualities with Laura Hack

Many of the short stories published in our anthology ‘One day in 2070’ warn us about how new technology can be used for good and bad. We...

Interview: Race, racism and genomics research with Sasha Henriques

Social categories like race and ethnicity play a complex role in emerging technologies. We sat down with researcher and founder of...

Interview: Authoritarianism and free will with Caelan Ho

There is nothing more exciting than a story that transports you to a place or a situation that is beyond our current understanding. In...

Interview: Pandemic Poetry with Tiny Cingoz

At the end of 2020, we launched a poetry competition 'This is the Year', inviting young people from South London to reflect on life...

Interview: Technology and the need for social connection with Janice Ho

In our short story competition, 'One Day in 2070', we asked budding science fiction writers to imagine the world fifty years from now....

Predictions and pandemic: Utopia Now! at Theatre Peckham

If a grown-up would have asked a twelve-year-old-me what I thought the future might look like, my predictions, I have no doubt, would...

One day in 2070... when academics and young writers imagine the future together

As a first-year PhD Student in Computer Science, I joined the Utopia Now team to bring an Artificial Intelligence researcher’s...