Claire is interviewed by Australian journalist and publisher of Women Love Tech, Robyn Foyster, about storylistening.
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Sarah and Claire delivered a talk at the Oxford Martin School introducing Storylistening, and answering question from the in person and online audience.
Sarah joined Sir Professor John Aston and Dame Professor Theresa Marteau for a discussion hosted by Professor Dennis Grube at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy’s annual conference on decision-making in government.
In this UNESCO Transforming the Future webinar – held online on 3rd February 2022 and chaired by UNESCO Head of Futures, Riel Miller – Sarah and Claire outline the storylistening framework and explain its direct consequences for Futures Studies (FS), inviting new reflections on the relationships between stories and scenarios, on the roles of narrative within established FS techniques, and on the relationships between FS and Science Fiction.
Claire and Sarah launched Storylistening in an online event on Thursday 25th November, hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy.
They introduced the book, and talked to Bennett Professor of Public Policy Diane Coyle about the urgent need to use stories to improve public reasoning. They were joined by Professors Genevieve Liveley, Peter Gluckman and Mike Hulme to reflect on the roles of stories in the public humanities, scientific advice, and climate change debates.
In 2021, the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) is producing an interview series with some of the key global practitioners at the interfaces between science, policy and society. This INGSA Horizon Series looks beyond the immediate lessons of the pandemic to how the complex systems of our society need to adapt to face future wicked challenges. Sarah interviewed Claire about the implications of Storylistening for practitioners working at the science/society/policy interface.
Sarah contributed to a panel at the annual CogX festival discussing the future of AI from humanities’ perspectives, including historical and literary critical. Sarah talks (from 20 minutes 33 seconds in) about science fiction, about how AI stories directly inform AI research, and about how AI research is driven by storytelling. She suggests that the very idea of ‘AI’ itself might be thought of as a ‘grand narrative’. She considers the cognitive value of stories, and how storytelling and storylistening offer alternative methods for thinking about what is called ‘AI ethics’.
Sarah tried out some early ideas from the Storylistening book at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Forum in Paris in December 2019. She was interviewed at the event and talks here about her hopes for the storylistening session, what she understands futures literacy to be, and how stories are crucial to imagining the future and making decisions in the present.