Re-visit the live stream with Nick Dunn here!

Join us for a lecture on how the built environment is imagined and their futures visualized, and why it’s important to get right.

How can we create powerful visions that inspire and initiate action towards a more sustainable, equitable and flourishing future? What can the sectors shaping our built environments learn from the visions of our pasts and presents?

Nick Dunn will join us in Malmö to give a lecture on envisioning the futures of people, places, and planet. Drawing on his work at the Imagination research lab, Professor Nick Dunn will talk about why communicating visions matters. In so doing he will share cases from the history of visualising imagination and methods for getting people and stakeholders aligned on the futures of society.

Speaker

Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design and Executive Director of Imagination, the design and architecture research lab at Lancaster University. Nick’s work examines the ways we think, envision and analyze the futures of people, places, and planet. His research has been funded by numerous research councils and government bodies. Nick is the founding Director of the Dark Design Lab, exploring the impacts of nocturnal activity on humans and non-humans. He is also an Ambassador for the Design Council and a Director of DarkSky UK. Nick has authored numerous books, journal articles, and commissioned reports. His expertise on cities, design, futures, health, and darkness have led to curated exhibitions and invited talks at public festivals and conferences around the world

Moderator

Reeta Hafner, Foresight Lead, Media Evolution

Agenda

• 18.00 – Doors open

• 19.00 – Lecture starts

• 19.45 – Q&A, discussions, conversation and mingling

• 20.30 – Event ends

You can also participate digitally via the live stream.

The lecture is organized as part of The Futures We Build, a strategic project within Smart Built Environment, one of Sweden’s 17 Strategic Innovation Programs, with funding from Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency), The Swedish Energy Agency and Formas (Swedish government research council for sustainable development).