How can we explore what lies at the future intersections of gender, race, sexuality, culture, technology, AI, ethics, social justice, and intimacy? Given that we can't gather data or evidence from events which haven't happened yet, how can exploring times to come usefully inform issues we face in the here and now? What lies beyond hope, fear, expectation, and prediction when we look to what tomorrow holds?

This session will explore the use of future scenarios to inform discussions around identity, sexuality, and justice. It draws on the work of Europe's IMAJINE project to consider the question of "spatial justice", or the ways in which jurisdictions and geographies affect our rights and opportunities. Alongside this, it addresses Verónica Gago's work on the "body-territory", with its idea that bodies and territories are entwined in their exploitation, and complex multidirectional dynamics arise between the individual body, the collective, and the various territories they inhabit.

Bio:

Dr. Matt Finch is a strategist and researcher at mechanicaldolphin.com, and an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He has worked globally in the public, private, and non-profit sectors as well as academia, and has advised communities and organizations across fields including healthcare, intellectual property and the legal sector, education and heritage, and the media.