Create the Future

We often think of engineering as buildings, bridges, boats ... but what can the ordinary small objects that we put in our mouths teach us about an engineer's process? And why is breaking things just as important as making?

British artist and materials engineer Zoe Laughlin opens up the doors to her Institute Of Making, a research club for those interested in the made world.

Roma Agrawal M.B.E hosts.

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How should we re-engineer our coastlines and oceans to boost marine biodiversity?

Dive into this deep discussion between host Roma Agrawal and Jaime Ascencio, Coastal Engineer and CEO of Reefy, a startup focused on innovations for the blue economy.

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What's the role of microbes in urban design? How can biology dictate buildings of the future? Should a city have senses?

Avowed concrete lover Roma Agrawal constructs a fascinating conversation with two experts on Urban Ecology:

Carlo Ratti is an architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist. He's a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs his MIT Senseable City Lab. His work has been exhibited in international venues including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum and Barcelona’s Design Museum.

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Regenerative Architecture at KU Leuven and a 2010 Senior TED Fellow. Her pioneering work examines how to harness the properties of living systems and scale them up to generate environmental solutions in the built environment.

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Is there life on Mars? And why is it so vital for the future of humanity to find out the answer to that question? What are the ethical implications of the Mars Rover?

Roma Agrawal hosts a rocket-fuelled conversation with two stellar experts:

Dr. Jim Green, physicist and retired chief scientist for NASA.

Abbie Hutty, who worked as lead structures engineer on the 2020 ExoMars rover, and was the youngest ever Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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How can engineering become more inclusive for disabled and neurodivergent people? And what are the engineering innovations that might make the workplace more accessible in the future? Lara Suzuki and Vint Cerf share their experiences and insights.

Larissa Suzuki is a computer scientist, inventor, Chartered Engineer, and entrepreneur, who works with Google, NASA, UCL and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering among many others. She's neurodivergent (Autism and ADHD).

Vinton Cerf is considered one of the ‘fathers of the Internet’, and has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2005, Cerf became Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He's hearing impaired.

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What engineering solutions should we be using on water scarcity, flood, and drought? Do we value our water enough? What is the Slow Water Movement?

Host Roma Agrawal hosts two H2O experts:

Erica Geis, independent journalist and author of 'Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge'.

Yewande Akinola, a chartered engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies.

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There has been an explosion of interest in ‘creative AI’, but does this mean that artists will be replaced by machines? What are the ethics of computer generated art? What are the exciting possibilities?

George Imafidon - Young Engineer Of The Year 2022 - speaks to some real humans about artificial artistry:

Michael A Osbourne is Professor of Machine Learning at Oxford University, and Briana Brownell is a futurist data scientist.

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Might laboratory grown meats be the answer to cutting our greenhouse gas and energy emissions? If they are on the menu, will people choose to eat them? And what do these cultivated meats taste like anyway?!

George Imafidon - Young Engineer Of The Year 2022 - host a meaty conversation with David Hunt from the Good Food Institute and Graihagh Jackson, host of The Climate Question on the BBC.

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Believe it or not, the world of batteries is far more magical than you might imagine! George Imafidon - Young Engineer Of The Year 2022 - chairs his first edition of Create The Future to ask how powerful can the lithium-ion battery become, and what are the environmental and human costs involved in their manufacture? George's guests for this conversation are Dr. Samuel J Cooper of the Dyson School of Design Engineering and Ed Conway, author of 'Material World'.

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How dangerous is Big Data? Should we be scared of the Internet Of Things? How much of our lives will we soon be handing over to smart technology?

Roma Agrawal hosts a debate between two opposing views on this most contemporary of subjects:

Mischa Dohler, VP Emerging Technologies at Ericsson

versus

Brett Frischmann, the Villanova University professor and author who specialises in Internet law, and technology policy.

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