The Edinburgh Futures Institute Rethinking Capitalism, Innovation and Societies Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

Entrepreneurial Citizens Able to work across different institutional spaces (public, private, NGOs, etc.) Operate with multiple organising logics (industrial, civic, polity, market) ‘Speak’ several languages (economic, political, technical, social) Act as cultural mediators between the business and the civic dimension of managerial actions The making of Entrepreneurial Citizens Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

across UoE or across the box) Foundational Courses 20 credits each 1 obligatory choice + Thematic Core Max 60 credits (20 or 10 credit courses) + Electives (40 Credits of existing across UoE or across the box) + Interdisciplinary Project (60 credit) Public Services & Health care Finance, Tech & Policy Creative industry Leading Major Programmes Business 2.0 Digital Arts International development New Business Models & Valuation Education future Resilience Cultural relations Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

Pathways and Programmes Policy, Communities & Infrastructures MSc Public Services Pathway MSc Leading Major Programmes pathway MSc International Development MSc Resilience Creative, Digital and Educational Futures MSc Creativity: industries & Entrepreneurship MSc Digital Arts MSc Education Futures Society, Markets and Values MSc Finance, Technology and Policy MSc Business 2.0 MSc New Business Models: the Environment, Values and Valuation MSc Cultural Relations Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play Foundational Courses Re-imagining capitalism, knowledge and democracy Technology and the shift from industrial to post-industrial or information age Political governance: technology, the functioning of capitalism and its socio-economic context Strength of the clusters of innovation The creative economy and new forms of work: project-based and self-employment Dynamics that exacerbate inequality and may undermine social, political and economic stability economic and social policies that enable nations, states and cities to capitalize on the benefits of the creative sector while ameliorating its negative dynamics Multilevel governance: local, regional and the transnational dimension The fragmentation of central states and the emergence of new forms of collective deliberation Prof JP Singh Prof Candace Jones Prof James Mitchell SSPS UEBS Data, digital technologies, decision making and intractable problems Mapping the impact of digital and data-driven technology on society and our sense of what it means to be human Data-driven paradigms for governance, decision-making, the digital economy and technological interventions in cognition and selfhood Decisions that change the world What counts as a good decision The practice and process of decision making Risky decisions Understanding the social knowledge base needed for successful completion of a pathway through the EFI Masters portfolio. Prof Chris Speed Prof Siân Bayne Prof Chris Carter ECA Education UEBS Creative, critical and design thinking Critical design thinking: “how do designers ‘do things differently'?" "how to design for unknown futures?" Social research methods (ethnography, interviewing, and digital media analysis) Interdisciplinary analysis of social and material “on the ground” circumstances, with a focus on human experience and social outcomes Critical attention to issues of social, racial, and economic justice Prototyping for unexpected outcomes through creative and reflective processes. Training in sociological assessment and skills for understanding the nature of social relations, community development, and sustainability How imagination, narrative, rhetoric, fantasy, belief, visualization, speculation etc. constitute, sustain, and/or destabilize organisations, markets, and societies  Dr Paul Crosthwaite Dr Karen Gregory Dr Arno Verhoeven LLCC SSPS ECA Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

Creative, Digital and Educational Futures Space and Placemaking Space and places are central to how creative industries are experienced and where they arise Prof Suzanne Ewing Dr Eric Laurier ECA Geosciences Visual and Cultural Methods Creative products and services persuade through visual media and play with cultural understandings, including visual forms, data visualization, and visual rhetoric Prof Richard Williams Prof JP Singh ECA SSPS Digital Arts Problem solving in the digital arts: space Real and virtual spaces of production and distribution in the digital arts Dr Martin Parker ECA-Music Problem solving in the digital arts: public programming How to develop a public programme in the digital arts; theory and case studies Dee Isaacs ECA-Music Problem solving in the digital arts: public policy Public policy in the digital arts, history, theory and practice Dr Dave O’Brien ECA-History of Art Problem solving in the digital arts: theory Critical theory and critical thinking in relation to the digital arts Prof Richard Coyne ECA-History of Art Problem solving in the digital arts: the city The city as site of production, distribution and exhibition of the digital arts Prof Richard Williams ECA-History of Art Finance, Technology and Policy Data Value Chains & Constellations Analysis of the shift from value chains toward data value chains and data value constellations Role of data in understand the multiple stakeholders in defining the value of design Prof Chris Speed ECA 8 / 66 courses (12% of the chocolate box) Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play

Research Culture… Post disciplinary / Post School? Do the research groups / centres help, or are they legacies of School centred research? What is missing in the current EFI research constitution? How does what we know about the emerging funding landscape inform initiatives? How might practice research lead in an old Infirmary? What does our research culture look like in 2021? Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play