Future News / Storytelling

Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities.

Building directly on the morning's speculative pitches, this session will offer a taste in a hands-on production studio. Participants will dig deeper into their own data and research to build out a speculative news story in small groups — sourcing quotes and figures, manipulating or sourcing photography, and drafting a publishable copy. The session closes with all groups sharing and reviewing each other's stories. The exercise is designed to explore a skill central to the summit's wider aims: translating structural, often abstract critiques of urban inequality into concrete, public-facing narratives that are grounded in evidence and actionable.

Featuring IAS Visiting Fellows - 

• Associate Professor Jessica Espey, University of Southampton
• Carlos David Jacome Polit, Delft University of Technology & ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
• Dr Juliana Gonçalves, TU Delft
• Dr Caitlin Robinson, University of Bristol

Arrivals from 2:00 pm for a 2:15 pm start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be available before this session from 1:00 pm

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

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