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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...
Nov 21, 20227 min read
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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...
Nov 14, 20225 min read
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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...
Nov 7, 20224 min read
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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...
Nov 7, 20223 min read
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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...
Sep 30, 20225 min read
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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...
Sep 23, 20223 min read
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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....
Sep 16, 20226 min read
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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...
Jul 15, 20213 min read
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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...
Jul 15, 20212 min read
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