Yesterday we (Susanne Buck and I, Flow Associates) were at the Rising Tide conference, hosted by the Royal Opera House Bridge, taking place at Chatham Historic Dockyard. It was all about Navigating the Future of Cultural Learning, and the role of cultural learning at a time of ‘seismic global transformation’. We were there to run… Read More Navigating the future of cultural learning
We have now written up our research and several tools forming the Future Views toolkit. These will be edited and designed over the coming months so that they are of maximum use to people planning the future of creative learning. Shared in this post is a sneak preview of some of our research. We looked… Read More Provocations on technology
We had a busy time last week, running two workshops with young people and encouraging a national online conversation around Future Views, as well as starting to write up our findings. Consequently, this is a brief post, sharing some responses to the final questions. We asked you to consider: Returning to the present day, and… Read More Your views in week four
This post is by Fatima Khuzen, who is a spatial and service designer and Flow intern. She interviewed Mark Stevenson, who was the co-founder of Flow. Working on the Future Views project has been an interesting amalgamation of answering questions that the project poses about my personal future along with using the same tools to… Read More The future of…A conversation with Mark Stevenson
I’ve been trying to summarise the ways that digital is bringing change to creativity and culture, but is also seeing countertrends or resistance. This is mostly thinking about impacts on the UK and on young people or cultural education. Please comment and tell me if I’ve missed anything, or got anything wrong. How else is… Read More Digital changing culture
In week 3 of the Future Views national conversation we asked you to imagine being a young person in 2026, and to describe a perfect day of meaningful creative activity. We then asked what one thing in this future is likely to have the biggest impact on young people’s creativity and access to culture. Your… Read More One day in the future
The question in week two was asking you to imagine future scenarios. What will our future world look like, especially for children and young people? What will have been invented that didn’t exist before that might affect their lives and creativity? 10 of you responded to this question, aged between 33 and 71. There may… Read More Your views in week two
This is week one, with the first of four questions in the Future Views national discussion about cultural learning. We wanted to know a bit about you Where are you from? 9 from London; 6 from East Kent; 8 from wider South East; 1 from Delhi, 1 from New Zealand, 1 from Wales How much… Read More Your views in week one
Throughout October we will be conducting a national conversation with online discussions and speculative design workshops for groups of young people and experts. Join the online conversation by sharing your views on the first question here. At the end of this week we will summarise all your views into one post, and invite comments on it.… Read More Week one of the conversation
Tate Modern has recently opened its new extension over the tanks where oil for the Bankside power station was stored, and now a whole new kind of energy is emerging from its new interactive and youth-friendly spaces, such as Tate Exchange. Battersea Power Station, also designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, is undergoing a similar transformation.… Read More New power stations of the imagination
