What are the long-term trends and ideas – especially in terms of technological change, globalisation and governance – that will have an impact on cities and regions?
What are the key issues facing housing and a new programme of council house building? Can councils deliver what is needed?
This special advance event gives you the opportunity to see the outlines of the new CARGO exhibition through an immersive 360 degree video projection space.
Adapted from a J B Priestley stage play, a group of disparate characters discuss their hopes for an ideal city.
Can you imagine swarms of robots collaborating to identify and help combat city pollution, guide firefighters, save the city? Take part in this immersive experience – an escape room unlike any other.
Who has the right to the city? How can we encourage all to participate in and help make future cities?
Writers, artists, academics and activists debate how guilty cities should feel about their past and – critically – what cities should do about this to create better futures for all.
The Physic Garden is an innovative gardening project, Putting Down Roots, run by homeless charity St Mungo’s. Take a tour of the garden and meet the green-fingered team.
The Addison Act of 1919 introduced the modern council estate. How has council housing changed since then? What can we learn from this?
At school, children are focused on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones. Michael Rosen shows us why all we need more play in our lives.
In a series of three short presentations we look at the challenge of China; the way blackness is shaping new identities in cities; and how cities can make innovation work for them.
We are in the midst of a long-term housing crisis. What role can council housing play? Where is the vision, locally and nationally?
What are the most effective ways to bring energy and life into a community’s public space?
What is the state of extremism in cities and towns? Can the pluralistic nature and tolerance of cities combat extremism and build a better future for all?
In times of austerity, new ways have to be found to provide services and continue to move people and places forward. What lessons can cities share?
What was it like to grow up in council housing? What can we learn from this for the new programme of council housing today?
What would radical cities do today? How would they address issues of poverty, land reform, democracy, the future of life and work?
How do we avoid the problems of the past and create new affordable housing to buy or rent in liveable neighbourhoods?
What can the great city builders of the past teach us about cities now?
As Mayor Marvin Rees reaches the end of his first term, he reflects on the work of his administration and where it goes next.
What was the impact of the women of the Bauhaus? And what can we learn today from their lives and work?
Ensemble Lux Musicae London in collaboration with Flamenco virtuoso Ignacio Lusardi and oud maestro Ahmed Mukhtar set Sephardic and Arabic music alongside Spanish composers of the late 16th to 18th centuries to tell a story of the Iberian peninsula and its music.
What is the Anthropocene and what does it mean for cities? What actions will follow climate emergency declarations?
Has devolution stalled? What have been the successes and problems so far? What should cities be demanding?
Experience Jay Bernard's film – featuring a series of interviews drawing on the history of the Temple Quarter site and the vision for its future – through VR.
New Towns, Our Town: Stories on Screen seeks to increase the visibility of, and pride in, the story of the New Town movement, and the unique social history and heritage of these pioneering towns.
Can you imagine swarms of robots collaborating to identify and help combat city pollution, guide firefighters, save the city? Take part in this immersive experience – an escape room unlike any other.
Speak for and about the city you live in to help build better places for the future.
It's widely agreed we're in a climate crisis, but what do we do? Our panel looks at communities and new economic thinking.
Learn about proposals for building schemes and monuments that never happened, from the practical to the brutally inappropriate to the just plain ridiculous.
New Town Utopia tells the challenging, funny and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon.
What is the Green New Deal, and what would it deliver? What are the implications for cities?
What can women, men and employers do to achieve pay equality for future generations of women?
Immerse yourself in 100 years of life in Knowle West: architecture, music, food, fashion, interiors and stories of everyday cultural icons.
As power is (slowly) devolved to sub-regions, towns and cities need to work together and plan for the future. How can we ensure that both prosper?
Around the world, people are developing ways to gather and interpret real-time data about everything from traffic flows to the moods of crowds. But do we really need all this data? Are we measuring the right things?
How do contemporary Christian organisations contribute to, shape and influence city development and city life?
Cities are increasingly seen as pivotal arenas for tackling the sustainable development goals, but can they deliver on them all? Can cities save the world?
Is there a role for cities in making democracy work for all? How do we get the city leaders we need? How can we get citizens engaged in their city?
How do community-focused support organisations need to adapt as a city becomes increasingly diverse?
Cabot Institute Annual Lecture 2019
Writers and artists debate Orwell and the meaning and importance of Nineteen Eighty-Four today.
Can you imagine swarms of robots collaborating to identify and help combat city pollution, guide firefighters, save the city? Take part in this immersive experience – an escape room unlike any other.
Two significant areas of redevelopment are the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone and the YTL Filton arena project. What's the vision for each project and for the city and West of England?
Who’s doing good work in Bristol on greening the city and helping nature recover and prosper?
Whether it’s countering overt racism and extremism or lower pay, lack of opportunities and discrimination, cities have a crucial role to play in creating better futures for all.
How do we make planning work so that we can build future cities at the same time as ensuring the democratic process is respected?
In Patrick Keiller's film, a fictional researcher returns from a 20-year absence in the Arctic to find that the UK's houses are the most dilapidated in western Europe.
Access to advanced analytics, like data science and machine learning, is more democratic than ever. But, it can be hard to know where to start. This event will match applicants with Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics scholars for coaching and advice on where to start.
Old Market is a barometer of Bristol and British history. Edson Burton charts the fascinating journey with a range of anecdotes drawn from interviews with past and present residents.
For more than 30 years Eugene Byrne has been filing away historical yarns, plus the tall tales he’s heard in the pub or newsroom. Join him for a tour of some of Bristol's least believable stories.
Ashton Rise is a new housing development in Ashton Vale, South Bristol for private and council houses. Take a tour and discuss the innovation there.
How can we use green infrastructure to tackle climate change and also ensure that our responses make cities greener and better places to live?
Futur Ville is a series of events inspired by the complex relationship between artists, creative communities, urban regeneration and cultural policy.
Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference?
What practical steps can be taken to make our cities greener and more nature friendly?
What role do – and should – universities play in the places they are based and the communities they work in? What contribution should universities make to social mobility?
The grant holders from the social innovation grant scheme talk about their experiences and what they have planned.
The Bristol slavery trail was first devised in 1999. Madge Dresser leads a walk looking at new findings, debunking some myths, and considering current controversies arising from the city’s slaving past and how it should be remembered.
What makes a liveable neighbourhood? What recommendations can we bring together for future cities?
The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) project was a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
In the centenary of Red Vienna and the Weimar Republic, Paul Mason looks at radical cities in the past and now.
What do Bristol's four MPs think about the future of the city?
Join researchers from the Hauert Lab at the University of Bristol and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory to help define the role of robot swarms in future cities.
At a time when nation states are pulling up the drawbridges and putting up barriers and walls, Gentleman and Grant explore how to create better and more tolerant places in the future.
A House Through Time has captivated viewers with its first two series and the next series will feature a Bristol house. What do the findings tell us about how cities have changed? And what might houses and places be like in the future?
Nadiya Hussain considers her roles as mother, Muslim, working woman and celebrity, and questions the barriers which many women must cross to be heard.