On the 8th to 10th November 2017 the 2nd International Conference on Anticipation was held at Senate House, School of Advanced Study in Central London. The purpose of the conference was to provide an interdisciplinary meeting ground in which researchers, scholars and practitioners who are seeking to understand anticipation and anticipatory practices could come together to deepen their understanding and create productive new connections.
The overarching aim of the conference and of the emerging field of Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how individuals, groups, institutions, systems and cultures use ideas of the future to act in the present. This was the second conference held in this field, and built on the 1st Conference of Anticipation, held in Trento, Italy in 2015 which saw over 350 delegates gather to explore topics ranging from design futures, to anticipatory economics and the philosophy of the present.
For the second conference the organising committee wanted to put into dialogue the empirical, practical and theoretical insights that are emerging in highly diverse fields ranging from biology to psychology, cultural geography to critical theory, physics to design, history to mathematics, urban theory to engineering.
Slides, papers and various media from the conference can be found on the Outputs page.
The next conference will be held in 2019.
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Il futuro del lavoro. Secondo incontro dei futuristi italiani
Si terrà al CNR Area Ricerca di Bologna il 16 e 17 aprile 2018 il secondo incontro dei futuristi italiani, organizzato dai promotori del primo incontro del 2017 – cattedra UNESCO di Anticipazione dell’Università di Trento, Italian Institute for the Future, nodo italiano del Millennium Project – insieme al CNR e all’Università di Parma.
Il tema centrale del meeting sarà il futuro del lavoro, ma saranno affrontate anche altre tematiche legate ai futures studies, alla previsione sociale e agli studi di anticipazione.
Tra i keynote speakers dell’incontro: Luca De Biase, giornalista di innovazione per Il Sole 24 ore; Roberto Cingolani, direttore dell’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Enzo Mingione, docente di Sociologia a Milano-Bicocca; Luigi Nicolais, già presidente del CNR, professore emerito dell’Università di Napoli Federico II; Donato Kinigier-Passigli dell’ ILO-International Labour Organization; Fabiana Scapolo del Joint Research Centre della Commissione europea.
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