FutureFest 2018 takes place on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 July at Tobacco Dock in London, and there will also be a series of special events leading up to it. You can sign up to the FutureFest newsletter for more info.
Schedule for Friday 6th and Saturday 7th July.
Tickets are available here – Choose General Admission at Registration Page page drop down and add the code WOMENSHIFTDIGI_FF18 at the payment point.
Ghislaine returns for a third time as a co-curator of Nesta’s FutureFest, which takes place this summer in London. body>data>space and Women Shift Digital are also official partners.
Ghislaine is co-curating a range of speakers, installations and debate panels exploring themes linked to the body and data from Future of Work, Machines that Care, to Virtual Physical Immersion and Augmented Bodies.
FutureFest is one of Europe’s largest festivals of the future, and explores how the most pressing challenges of our time could be tackled by developing radical alternative future visions. It features thought-provoking debates, innovative showcases, immersive experiences, and mesmerising installations, along with talks from those putting cutting-edge ideas into practice – across democracy and government, work, health, education and the arts.
A wide range of brilliant women are presenting including:
- Indra Adnan (Co-initiator, The Alternative UK)
- Prof Rebecca Allen (VR artist/art-sci pioneer)
- Ann Branch (Head Unit, EC DG Employment)
- Prof Sarah Churchwell (Researcher/Culture)
- Rachel Coldicutt (COO, Doteveryone)
- Ayça Çubukçu (Author/Human rights expert)
- Prof Caitlin Desilvey (Cultural Geographer)
- Dr Kanta Dihal (Researcher/AI Narratives)
- Dr Patricia Fara (Author/Historian of science)
- Dr Kathryn Harkup (Author/chemist)
- Imogen Heap (Founder, Mycelia/Mi.mu gloves)
- Marie Hicks (Historian of technology)
- Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE (Chief, Stemettes)
- Jasmine Idun Isdrake (Director, Playcentric Industries)
- Anab Jain (Director, Superflux/designer/futurist)
- Shelina Janmohamed (Author/commentator)
- Laura Kalbag (Designer/author)
- Kapka Kassabova (Author)
- Jude Kelly (Founder, Women Of The World Festival)
- Amy Lamé (London’s Night Czar)
- Aleksandra Mir (Visual Artist)
- Dr Marianna Obrist (Researcher/Interaction Design)
- Elizabeth Oldfield (Director, Theos)
- Kate Pickett (Author/Health researcher)
- Anna Rafferty (Director, Digital Studios, BBC Studios)
- Anjali Ramachandran (Editor/Ada’s List)
- Kate Raworth (Economist/author)
- Yvonne Roberts (Journalist)
- Annika Small (Co-Founder/Director, CAST)
- Clara Sousa-Silva (Molecular astrophysicist/scientist)
- Jill Stuart (Space exploration ethicist)
- Dr Günes Taylor (Research Fellow, Francis Crick Institute)
- Lisa Taylor (Director, Future of London)
- Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (Political scientist)
- Sophie Walker (Leader, Women’s Equality Party)
- Joanna Walsh (Journalist/author)
- Ruby Wax OBE (Writer/performer/mental health campaigner)
- Ghislaine Boddington (Co-curator FutureFest/bodydataspace)
In 2016 Ghislaine curated the Future Love theme and directed and produced the major immersive installation Collective Reality.
In 2015 Ghislaine curated the Future Machines theme, which included Blind Robot, by Louis Philippe Demers, a development commission for the Robots and Avatars project (body>data>space, KIBLA, AltArt)