All seminars take place at 4pm in Evolution House, 1st Floor, T-Room. These talks are free and open to all.
2017 - 2018
Semester 1
Thu 21 Sep | Digital Geographies | George Jaramillo, Glasgow School of Art | View event >
Thu 28 Sep | Linguistic Geographies | Pip Thornton, Royal Holloway | View event >
Thu 5 Oct | Interaction Design | Tim Peix | View event >
Thu 12 Oct | Web Science | Kieron O'Hara, University of Southampton | View event >
Thu 19 Oct | Digital Architecture | Luis Hernan, Newcastle University | View event >
Thu 26 Oct | Digital Urban | Drew Hemment, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee | View event >
Thu 2 Nov | Business and Law | Glenn Parry, University of the West of England | View event >
Thu 9 Nov | Political Ecology | Brett Matulis, University of Leicester | View event >
Thu 16 Nov | Global Creative Enterprise | Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh | View event >
Thu 23 Nov | Interaction Design | Jamie Steane, Northumbria University | View event >
Thu 30 Nov | Storytelling & Design | Denis Mallon | View event >
Semester 2
Thu 18 Jan | Strategy and Innovation | Steven Drost, CodeBase | View event >
Thu 25 Jan | Interaction Design | Caroline Claisse, Sheffield Hallam University | View event >
Thu 1 Feb | Creative Industries | Clive Gillman, Creative Scotland | View event >
Thu 8 Feb | Blockchain & Trust | Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University | View event >
Thu 15 Feb | FinTech | Karen Elliott, Newcastle University | View event >
Thu 1 Mar | Designing for Dementia | Nick Jenkins, University of the West of Scotland | View event >
CANCELLED: TO BE RESCHECULED | Thu 8 Mar | Sound Performance | Venue to be confirmed | John Bowers & Tim Shaw, Newcastle University
CANCELLED: TO BE RESCHECULED | Blended Memory | Tim Fawns, University of Edinburgh
Thu 22 Mar | Digital Humanities | Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh | View event >
Thu 29 Mar | Internet of Soft Things | Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh | View event >
Thu 5 Apr | Data Visualisation | Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh | View event >
Previous seminar series
2016 - 2017
HCI | Maria Wolters, University of Edinburgh
More Than Human | Anne Galloway, Wellington
HCI | Aaron Quigley, St Andrews
Naked Craft | Amelie-Proulx, Québec)
Wallscope | David Eccles, University of Edinburgh
CTO Pycom | Fred de Haro, Eindhoven
Interdisciplinary Design Afternoon | Robert Baines
Democratic Renewal | Cat Macaulay, ScotGov
Data Viz | Rebecca Kaye, University of Edinburgh
Digital sociology | Karen Gregory, University of Edinburgh
Digital Arts | Gosia Walton, University of Edinburgh
Representations of ANT | Michael Johnson, Glasgow School of Art
Cultural Geography | Kate Symons, University of Edinburgh
Studio Andthen | Santini Basra, Glasgow University
Accounting and Social Innovation | Paolo Quattrone, University of Edinburgh
Social Computing | Joe Corneli,University of Edinburgh
The Incredible Machine | Marcel Schouwenaar, Netherlands
Applied Ethics | Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh
Digital Architectures | Cristina Nan, University of Edinburgh
2015 - 2016
Multispecies Methods: Participatory Research and the more-than-human | Michelle Bastian, Edinburgh College of Art
Animal-Computer Interaction: Designing Interactive Systems for and with More-than-Humans | Clara Mancini, Open University
New Trends in Digital Storytelling: The case of Laura Silva | Valentina Nisi, M-ITI Portugal
The GeoMerce Project | Nuno Nunes and Giovanni Innella, M-ITI Portugal and Chiba University
eoSurgical: Improving Skills and Saving lives | Simon Humphrey-Adam/ eoSIM
The Water Next Time: Changing Wavescapes in the Anthropocene | Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Designing Digital Cultures | Gerard Briscoe, Glasgow School of Art
Process and Notation in the work of Anni Albers and Alfred North Whitehead | Simon Yuill, independent artist
From intervention to co-creation: how ‘meSch’ is empowering cultural heritage professionals realise tangible interactive installations | Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University
Designing Digital for the Real | Alexander Cole, Peekabu
Flagging Interest: A neuropolitical approach to implicit identity triggers | Laura Cram, School of Social & Political Science
Cultural Evolution and Human Uniqueness | Simon Kirby, Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Unexpected Items in the Bagging Area | Neil McGuire, After The News
Designing for Creative Intelligence | Mel Woods, University of Dundee
Crafting the Computational Maker: The Conservation of Embodied Phenomenological Experience | Matt Ratto, University of Toronto
Exploring Smart Cities | Simon Tricker, Urban Tide, Smart City Data Experts
Staying safe online and making security usable | Kami Vaniea, School of Informatics
Design Activism: Co-Design in the Wild with Collective Imagery | Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, design activist, academic and poet
2014 - 2015
New opportunities with Beacons | Mark Sorsa-Leslie, Bubbal
The stratification of life, mind and disciplinary knowledge | Cris Simonetti, University of Aberdeen
Process of Drawing | Clare Petherick, illustrator
Free Software | Hadi Mehrpouya, Edinburgh College of Art
Can a designer be courageous? Looking at the ethics of design through the virtues of craft | Jeremy Kidwell, School of Divinity
Data and Life on the Street | Alex Taylor, Microsoft
Summarizing Data Using Probabilistic Machine Learning | Charles Sutton, School of Informatics
Punchcard Economy - Rates for the Job | Sam Meech, artist and videosmith
Towards Bio-Hybrid Soft Robots and Integrated Soft Systems | Adam Stokes, Institute for Micro and Nano Systems & Institute for Bioengineering
Making Unknown Technology | Kristina Andersen, STEIM, The Netherlands
Temporal Design | Larissa Pschetz, Edinburgh College of Art
Evaluating and developing Tangible Interactive Exhibits for museums | Loraine Clarke, University of Strathclyde
Validated by 3D Printing | Filipe Vilela, Heriot-Watt University
Emerging practitioners/creative technologies, why talking about disruptive technologies is wrong | Diego Zamora, Edinburgh College of Art
Keeping you playing: Gaming Analytics | Mark Robinson, deltaDNA
Slow Tech Time | Will Odom, Simon Fraser University
