Caring For Futures – lunchtime event

Join Bashart Malik and Helen Farmer from the Frank Conversations Collective for this Caring for Futures event, supported by The Studio in Bath.

The event will start with a 10 minute film, Is AI Taking Your Jobs, about how Data and AI are shaping the futures of University of Bristol researchers and young people from Bristol, followed by a walk and talk in Victoria Park, Bath (bring your own picnic).

What if the digital future belonged to everyone?

This collaboration between Frank Conversations Collective and the University of Bristol’s ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures brings a youth lens to some of the most pressing questions in tech today.

Lead curator Bashart Malik’s mini-documentary Is AI Taking Your Jobs? draws on a 2–3 year project involving young people from diasporic backgrounds, across Bristol, alongside artists, technologists, academics, and researchers. The result is a piece of work that asks who gets to shape AI and virtual reality, and whose voices are missing from that conversation. Supported by The Studio, Frank Conversations puts storyowners at the centre.

This short film hears from University of Bristol researchers and young people with a range of Bristol heritages, identities, cultures, beliefs and faiths, about how data and AI are shaping their futures.

Algorithms and AI are increasingly being used to make decisions in child welfare. How much do young people know and understand about how their data is being captured and processed?This new short film, part of the Caring for Futures project, explores this issue in detail with interviews from leading academics and researchers including CenSoF’s Debbie Watson and Lisa May Thomas. Six workshops were held with groups of young people from all over Bristol, to delve into their understanding of how their personal data is being stored and used. With interview and workshop footage, this film hears directly from researchers and young people about their views on data, AI and different possible futures.

Thanks to all the young people and Community Leaders involved, Bashart Malik, and the Centre for Sociodigital Futures for sharing this with us. They are hoping to attend the Frank Walk and Talk too to meet you.

Founded by Resident Helen Farmer, the Frank Conversations Collective explores stories and spaces for better work and workplaces. We focus on the Unsaid and Undone work through creative, disruptive opportunities and support.Our core values of Justice, Belonging, Joy and Accountability align with an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach.

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We seek to make all our events accessible.
* All interior areas of the event are wheelchair accessible.
*The event space is through 2 doors from the street, with no steps.
*There are accessible toilet facilities available on the same floor as the main event, through one door.
*We provide a separate quiet room for delegates to use throughout the event.
*Parking is available in a car park near to the venue. Charlotte Street Car Park is the closest.
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