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Imagining the home of the future
28 April 2022, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
This lunch hour lecture brings together the diverse voices who helped to create the story behind the Tomorrow's Home exhibition. The speakers will reflect on the provocations raised, the lessons learnt and the questions still unanswered.
This event is free.
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About the lecture:
Tomorrow's Home 2050 was an immersive exhibition at the Museum of the Home where the home of the future - 30 years from now - had become a reality. Drawing upon real, leading research from UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, it playfully imagined how our dwellings could help us live independently and healthily in a future influenced by climate change, an ageing population and digital automation.
Through eight-weeks of museum visitors, online conversations with experts and a programme of workshop activities, Tomorrow's Home invited the public to cross the threshold into the future and explore how our homes could support us, our communities and our planet. Now the exhibition has closed its doors, this lecture brings together the diverse voices who helped to create it to hear the story behind Tomorrow's Home. We will reflect on the provocations raised, the lessons learnt and the questions still unanswered.
Arrive ready to explore your sense of ageing, the meaning of home and the role of technology in our experience of health. Meet some of the community involved and find out more about our next chapter. Imagine the home of the future.
Image credit: Mike Massaro
About the Speakers
Mine Orlu
Associate Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy
Mine Orlu is Associate Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy. Her research focusses on designing pharmaceutical formulations tailored considering the physiological changes and medicine administration related needs occurring at advanced age.
Cian O’Donovan
Senior Research Fellow at UCL's Department of Science and Technology Studies
Cian O’Donovan is a Senior Research Fellow in UCL's Department of Science and Technology Studies. Cian is researching the impacts of digitalization on social care and uses social care to study who benefits from innovation more broadly, who pays for innovation, and who decides.
Dr Ben Littlefield
Public Engagement Manager at UCL Engagement
Dr Ben Littlefield is a Public Engagement Manager within UCL Engagement. He has over 15 years of experience working in science communication, outreach, widening participation and engagement and this journey has taken him from designing a giant walk-through colon to being the lead chemistry consultant for nationwide programmes on the Secret World of Gases, reaching hundreds of thousands of people. He is particularly passionate about equitable engagement with the physical sciences, how we support and train researchers to involve the public in their work and the joy of bringing people together to find shared languages.