1. The Edinburgh Futures Institute
Rethinking Capitalism, Innovation and Societies
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2. Entrepreneurial Citizens
Able to work across different institutional spaces (public, private, NGOs, etc.)
Operate with multiple organising logics (industrial, civic, polity, market)
‘Speak’ several languages (economic, political, technical, social)
Act as cultural mediators between the business and the civic dimension of managerial actions
The making of
Entrepreneurial Citizens
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3. across UoE or across the box)
Foundational
Courses
20 credits each
1 obligatory choice +
Thematic Core
Max 60 credits
(20 or 10 credit courses) +
Electives
(40 Credits of existing
across UoE or across the box) +
Interdisciplinary
Project
(60 credit)
Public Services & Health care
Finance, Tech & Policy
Creative industry
Leading Major Programmes
Business 2.0
Digital Arts
International development
New Business Models & Valuation
Education future
Resilience
Cultural relations
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4. Pathways and Programmes
Policy, Communities & Infrastructures
MSc Public Services Pathway
MSc Leading Major Programmes pathway
MSc International Development
MSc Resilience
Creative, Digital and Educational Futures
MSc Creativity: industries & Entrepreneurship
MSc Digital Arts
MSc Education Futures
Society, Markets and Values
MSc Finance, Technology and Policy
MSc Business 2.0
MSc New Business Models: the Environment, Values and Valuation
MSc Cultural Relations
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5. Edinburgh Futures Institute / A Part to Play
Foundational Courses
Re-imagining capitalism, knowledge and democracy
Technology and the shift from industrial to post-industrial or information age
Political governance: technology, the functioning of capitalism and its socio-economic context
Strength of the clusters of innovation
The creative economy and new forms of work: project-based and self-employment
Dynamics that exacerbate inequality and may undermine social, political and economic stability
economic and social policies that enable nations, states and cities to capitalize on the benefits of the creative sector while ameliorating its negative dynamics
Multilevel governance: local, regional and the transnational dimension
The fragmentation of central states and the emergence of new forms of collective deliberation
Prof JP Singh
Prof Candace Jones
Prof James Mitchell
SSPS
UEBS
Data, digital technologies, decision making and intractable problems
Mapping the impact of digital and data-driven technology on society and our sense of what it means to be human
Data-driven paradigms for governance, decision-making, the digital economy and technological interventions in cognition and selfhood
Decisions that change the world
What counts as a good decision
The practice and process of decision making
Risky decisions
Understanding the social knowledge base needed for successful completion of a pathway through the EFI Masters portfolio.
Prof Chris Speed
Prof Siân Bayne
Prof Chris Carter
ECA
Education
UEBS
Creative, critical and design thinking
Critical design thinking: “how do designers ‘do things differently'?" "how to design for unknown futures?"
Social research methods (ethnography, interviewing, and digital media analysis)
Interdisciplinary analysis of social and material “on the ground” circumstances, with a focus on human experience and social outcomes
Critical attention to issues of social, racial, and economic justice
Prototyping for unexpected outcomes through creative and reflective processes.
Training in sociological assessment and skills for understanding the nature of social relations, community development, and sustainability
How imagination, narrative, rhetoric, fantasy, belief, visualization, speculation etc. constitute, sustain, and/or destabilize organisations, markets, and societies 
Dr Paul Crosthwaite
Dr Karen Gregory
Dr Arno Verhoeven
LLCC
SSPS
ECA
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6. Creative, Digital and Educational Futures
Space and Placemaking
Space and places are central to how creative industries are experienced and where they arise
Prof Suzanne Ewing
Dr Eric Laurier
ECA
Geosciences
Visual and Cultural Methods
Creative products and services persuade through visual media and play with cultural understandings, including visual forms, data visualization, and visual rhetoric
Prof Richard Williams
Prof JP Singh
ECA
SSPS
Digital Arts
Problem solving in the digital arts: space
Real and virtual spaces of production and distribution in the digital arts
Dr Martin Parker
ECA-Music
Problem solving in the digital arts: public programming
How to develop a public programme in the digital arts; theory and case studies
Dee Isaacs
ECA-Music
Problem solving in the digital arts: public policy
Public policy in the digital arts, history, theory and practice
Dr Dave O’Brien
ECA-History of Art
Problem solving in the digital arts: theory
Critical theory and critical thinking in relation to the digital arts
Prof Richard Coyne
ECA-History of Art
Problem solving in the digital arts: the city
The city as site of production, distribution and exhibition of the digital arts
Prof Richard Williams
ECA-History of Art
Finance, Technology and Policy
Data Value Chains & Constellations
Analysis of the shift from value chains toward data value chains and data value constellations
Role of data in understand the multiple stakeholders in defining the value of design
Prof Chris Speed
ECA
8 / 66 courses (12% of the chocolate box)
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8. Research Culture… Post disciplinary / Post School?
Do the research groups / centres help, or are they legacies of School centred research?
What is missing in the current EFI research constitution?
How does what we know about the emerging funding landscape inform initiatives?
How might practice research lead in an old Infirmary?
What does our research culture look like in 2021?
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