Which narratives and ways of framing the seminal challenge of our age have the best chance of helping us meet that challenge, climate change? What are the psychological factors that make it difficult for us to address these large scale (and long time scale) issues and how can we best …
Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an American human rights activist and Muslim minister who was a hugely important figure in the civil rights movement. Best known for his advocacy for the rights of people of colour, he is the subject of Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed, award winning biopic, which features Denzel …
Democracy Club is a hugely important initiative that has as its mission “An ambitious goal to provide accurate, non-partisan information on every election and candidate in the UK, unbiased and unfiltered” It is a club consisting of a large network of volunteers across the country, with a similar, but smaller, …
We built a simple tool to help people share a message with their friends and groups on WhatsApp. Clicking the link creates a message in WhatsApp that can be edited and shared with five chat channels in the app. The message itself includes the link to generate the message, and …
How should (and do) current and near-future technology relate to the responsibility of peoples and states to other peoples and states? How can heavily developed countries help developing countries take up the best, and avoid the worst, of the technical means at our disposal? And what should we in the …
This month’s film is 2015’s historical fiction about the epochal struggle for votes for women, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette. Interestingly, it was apparently the first film to be filmed in the Houses of Parliament. Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of perhaps the most famous real-life suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, has said: What I love about the …
Wired have run an article on the civic tech innovations coming out of the Tech for UK movement, including our own Compare the Brexit platform.
This month’s film was made in the same year as our last (2014) and is set in the same year as our previous (1984), but strikes a remarkably different note to both. The film has won numerous awards and will leave you feeling positive. Watch it with us! We view films and …
How can we design technology and shape culture in such ways that they support and reinforce peoples’ intuitive ethics and empathy? The next discussion in the Future Fridays series takes place near Cambridge station from 6-8pm on the 22nd February 2019. Please contact us with some information about you and your …
How is technology changing the art of persuasion? Whether in the field of political campaigning or simply the wider consumerist culture, technology has a large role in supporting the practise of persuasion. What does this mean for democracy and society? The next discussion in the Future Fridays series takes place near …
