Futures of Care Symposium at the Thackray Museum of Medicine The Futures of Care Symposium ran 8 April 2022 in the Thackray Museum of Medicine, as a bookend to the Launch of the ‘Can Robots Care?’ exhibition back in November 2021. Subtitled ‘Relationality and Responsibility in more than Human Worlds’, this day-long, multi-disciplinary event explored … Read more
Lizzie Wright spoke to Professor Teresa Heffernan about the relationship between robot fictions and real-life robots, the films Wall-E and Ex Machina, and the importance of remembering the materiality — and material cost — of technology. This is an edited extract of their conversation. Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Saint … Read more
Ahead of the opening of our exhibition, Can Robots Care?, our Project Intern Lizzie Wright spoke to Professor Aimee van Wynsberghe about her work.
Futures of Care: Relationality and Responsibility in more than Human Worlds