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Nov 21, 20227 min

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 14, 20225 min

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 7, 20224 min

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, 20223 min

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...

Sep 30, 20225 min

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 23, 20223 min

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 16, 20226 min

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....

Jul 15, 20213 min

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, 20212 min

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...