Future Curious

Nesta Predicts 2020! Annual predictions revealed

It's time for Nesta's ten predictions for 2020! This episode delves into the trends, social movements and technological breakthroughs set to impact our lives over the next twelve months. From the beginning of the end for fireworks to an outbreak of silly walks and the chance to meet your digital twin, host Tiernan Douieb [https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb] introduces Nesta's predictors for a rundown of what could be on the cards for 2020. Useful links * Nesta Predictions 2020 [https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/ten-predictions-2020/] * Vicki Sellick [https://www.nesta.org.uk/team/vicki-sellick/] * Tris Dyson [https://www.nesta.org.uk/team/tris-dyson/] Get in touch with the Future Curious team: futurecurious@nesta.org.uk [futurecurious@nesta.org.uk] Or on twitter @Nesta_UK [https://twitter.com/nesta_uk/], #FutureCurious and #NestaPredicts Future Curious is presented by Tiernan Douieb and produced and published by Nesta's communication team. This episode was recorded by Sonia Foday and edited by Wardour Studios. Original music by Ged Flood.

Hold that thought: a bite-sized episode

Listen to host Tiernan Douieb [https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb] give a taster of Nesta Predicts 2020 and discover some innovation-flavoured #GE19 thoughts and reflections from the team at Nesta. Please do come back on Thursday for your full-length weekly fill of the Nesta podcast.  Useful links: * Nesta Predicts 2019 [https://www.nesta.org.uk/event/predictions-2019/] * Nesta's response to the UK General Election manifestos [https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/nestas-response-general-election-2019/] Get in touch with the Future Curious team: futurecurious@nesta.org.uk [futurecurious@nesta.org.uk] Or on twitter @Nesta_UK, #futurecurious Future Curious is presented by Tiernan Douieb and produced and published by Nesta's communication team. This bite-sized episode was recorded by Sonia Foday and edited by Wardour Studios. Original music by Ged Flood.

Hold that thought: a bite-sized episode

Listen to host https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb give a taster of Nesta Predicts 2020 and discover some innovation-flavoured #GE19 thoughts and reflections from the team at Nesta.   Please do come back on Thursday for your full-length weekly fill of the Nesta podcast.  Useful links: Nesta Predicts 2019 https://www.nesta.org.uk/event/predictions-2019/ Nesta’s response to the UK General Election manifestos https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/nestas-response-general-election-2019/ Get in touch with the Future Curious team: futurecurious@nesta.org.uk    Or on twitter @Nesta_UK, #futurecurious   Future Curious is presented by Tiernan Douieb and produced and published by Nesta’s communication team. This bite-sized episode was recorded by Sonia Foday and edited by Wardour Studios. Original music by Ged Flood.

If prevention is better than cure, why does health research focus on the fix?

We know that what matters most for our health is the food we eat, the air we breathe, the places we work and the homes we live in. But even though we know a lot about what causes ill health, we know far too little about how to prevent those factors from making us ill.   In this episode, host Tiernan Douieb [https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb] talks to Nesta's Christina Cornwell [https://www.nesta.org.uk/team/christina-cornwell/] about tipping the health research balance away from the biomedical: what happens when you look for solutions to the causes of illhealth - like pollution and inequality?   We hear from the Ella Roberta Family Foundation founder, Rosamund Adoo Kissi-Debrah [https://twitter.com/rosamund_ElsFdn], about her campaign for better air quality after her young daughter suffered from a fatal asthma attack.  Finally, Lita Wallace [https://twitter.com/yolita22] of The Winch [https://thewinch.org/], joins Tiernan and Christina to talk about why youth violence is a public health issue and how research led by young people in North London is trying to find solutions.   * Proposal for The Nightingale Centre  [https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/nightingale/] * The Ella Roberta Family Foundation [http://ellaroberta.org/] * The Winch's Take Back the Power and podcast  [https://thewinch.org/services/take-back-the-power/] Get in touch with the Future Curious team: futurecurious@nesta.org.uk    Or on Twitter @Nesta_UK, #futurecurious   Future Curious is presented by Tiernan Douieb and produced and published by Nesta's communication team. This episode was recorded at and edited by Wardour Studios. Original music by Ged Flood.

The future of storytelling

From the comfort of your very own podcast stream, join us at London's Barbican for an evening of talks, installations and an interactive performance about the future of storytelling…    Stories of the past have been carved, painted and printed. Today, they are whispered through earbuds, watched through screens and available to download.    In this episode, host Tiernan Douieb [https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb] talks to writer and critic Olivia Laing [https://www.instagram.com/olivialanguage/], near-future author Stephen Oram [https://twitter.com/OramStephen] and writer and narrative designer Chella Ramanan [https://twitter.com/ChellaRamanan].    We will also explore how stories might be told in the future through installations from the Royal College of Art, and immersing ourselves in an animal love story with performance artist David Finnigan [https://twitter.com/davidfinig]. Find out about Nesta's new Alternarratives Prize -  a £15,000 prize for writers to explore innovation in short-form storytelling.    And don't forget to listen out for your discount code for Nesta's FutureFest on 20 March 2020.   * Alternarratives Prize:  https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/alternarratives/ [https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/alternarratives/] * FutureFest 2020: https://www.futurefest.org/futurefest-2020 [https://www.futurefest.org/futurefest-2020]   Get in touch with the Future Curious team: futurecurious@nesta.org.uk    Or on twitter @Nesta_UK, #futurecurious   Future Curious is presented by Tiernan Douieb and produced and published by Nesta's communication team. This episode was recorded on location by Sonia Foday and edited at Wardour Studios. Original music by Ged Flood.