Tech Events at Inspace, Edinburgh

A guided lunchtime tour of the Mapping the Anthropocene exhibition at Inspace with the curatorial team.

with Joycelyn Longdon (Climate researcher and founder, ClimateInColour)

Dr Joycelyn Longdon on 'Justice-led Conservation Technology' — designing biodiversity monitoring with forest communities in Ghana, using machine-learning bioacoustics to turn recorded sound into ecological data, and what changes when the people living in the forest shape the tooling rather than receive it. One hour, 16:00 to 17:00, at Inspace on Crichton Street, part of the Design Informatics seminar series run by Edinburgh College of Art. Longdon is an environmental justice researcher, writer and technologist, and the work discussed comes out of her PhD research at the University of Cambridge. No price is listed on the registration page. Why go: a concrete case of applied machine learning where the hard problems are participatory design and data ownership rather than model performance. Best for ML practitioners, designers and anyone building in climate or environmental tech.

The Design Informatics seminar series continues at Inspace with Ricardo Vega Mora. One hour, free.

The launch of Beyond the AI Binary, a publication from Edinburgh College of Art, framed as a conversation on creativity, future practice and change rather than a straight book launch. It runs at Inspace on Crichton Street from 19:00 to 21:00, free, with registration on Eventbrite. The premise is that the public argument about AI and creative work has collapsed into for-or-against, and that practitioners need a third position they can actually work from. Why go: Edinburgh's creative-technology scene is unusually strong, and this is the moment it puts a position on the record. Best for designers, researchers and anyone whose craft is being reshaped by generative tools.

A Saturday workshop at Inspace using design methods to imagine hopeful climate futures, part of the Mapping the Anthropocene programme.

An evening at Inspace built around the Mapping the Anthropocene exhibition, with a panel on how data visualisation and design research make climate and environmental change legible. Inspace is the University of Edinburgh's Design Informatics venue, and its lates reliably pull a mixed room of designers, researchers and technologists.

Design Informatics' seminar series returns with artist-researcher Roel Heremans at Inspace — where design research, sound and data meet.

University of Edinburgh Masters students from the Institute for Design Informatics present their investigations into global interactions with data, technology, and people. Expect embodied, virtual, and playful experiences that merge digital, virtual, and artificial approaches to address environmental, community, and societal challenges. Free drop-in — no registration required. Inspace is one of Edinburgh's best interdisciplinary innovation spaces, right on the doorstep of Holyrood.