Transformative Technologies is a new strand of UCL research that explores the power of technology to radically reshape the world we live in.

UCL Culture invites you to a programme of events that introduces this research by looking at the interplay between technology, arts, and nature.

Events programme
 

Robot Tours

Using a telepresence robot and 3D printed objects, visitors will be able to experience UCL’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology via remote access at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. Could these technologies offer solutions for people who find museums inaccessible due to motor disabilities or other impairments? 

Museum Soundtrack

Museums are usually quiet spaces, but at this event you will have musical accompaniment. A new music generation software programme will produce music in real time that will be a personalised soundtrack to enhance your viewing experience.

Altered States

In a club night like no other, we will use light, sound and technology from 1920s Russia to explore how we experience and engage with the space around us.

Big Data Sing

The collection of large data sets, or ‘Big Data’, is revolutionising our ability to understand the world around us. We will explore the use, ethics and value of ‘Big Data’ through discussion and debate. During the event, we will debut a commissioned piece of choral music that uses song as a means of experiencing large data sets.

Ways of Seeing: Visual Impairment Hackathon

Join us as we bring together visually impaired groups and researchers to ‘hack’ technologies to to create more accessible, inclusive and empowering museum experiences.

The Pod

Step into our pod and meet a researcher who will discuss a new transformative technology using one or more items from UCL’s spectacular museum collections. The pod will be popping up across the two weeks of the event series.

Alt-Art

A series of artworks by Slade artists, staff and students which use innovative materials and processes to explore contemporary issues such as dwindling food supplies, big data, geotracking and climate change.

Produced in partnership with UCL Grand Challenges programme.