John will be a guest speaker at the forthcoming Cultural Futures Foundry event, which will be held in their online, immersive Cultural Futures Hub.
There are two days of presentations, Q&As and discussions, which are FREE to attend (but which do require a ticket).
Join us online at The Cultural Futures Hub on Spatial.io, 1st and 2nd March, 2025 (11am-3pm GMT)
Day 1: Inclusive communities
- Presentation: Folklore Without Borders. (Dr Paul Cowdell and Dr Matthew Cheeseman.)
- Presentation: Folklore and communities of violence. (Dr Andrew Fergus Wilson.)
- Group discussion: What are cultural futures? (Dee Chainey-Jones.)
- Panel Q&A: Inclusive community engagement. (Dr Caroline Oates, Mark Norman and Joana Varanda.)
Saturday 1st March
Day 2: Inclusive storytelling
- Presentation: Toothy Terrors: An archetype of the sexually dangerous woman. (Dr Emma Woods.)
- Panel Q&A: Storytelling in the 21st-century. (Helen Lundström Erwin, John Reppion and Paul Watson.)
- Presentation: Ecological Kinematics: How to create climate narrative using game engine, and to create a dialogue between art and science. (Dongni Liang.)
- Panel Q&A: Inclusive storytelling. (Dr Corey Hartley, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Beth O’Brien and Suresh Ariaratnam.)
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More information can be found at www.culturalfuturesfoundry.com/conference-2025/
You should also check out their experimental Green Knight XR experience, which was unveiled at Spirits of Place last year.