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Ghost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics
This project aims to create a platform that makes visible the conflicts in transport logistics that are mostly being concealed from public view.
Brooke Harrington: Offshore, Inequality & States
Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. ABSTRACT Eight people now own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who constitute the poorer 50% of humanity. How did we g
Ghost Platform at September Sessions: Dirty details of the clean startup chime
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist
Urban Futures from Essentials to Experiences - The transformative role of marketplaces in 21st century cities
Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereInformality is on the rise. From remote labour and services-on-demand to food trucks and pop-up shops, its transformat
Of Malthus and Methuselah: does longevity treatment aggravate global catastrophic risks?
Physica Scripta 89 128005 (7pp) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abstract Global catastrophic risk is a term that refers to the risk of the occurrence of an event that kills at least millions of people
Digital fist bumps: searching for datafication and digitalisation in everyday CrossFit coaching practice
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living Abstract The research presented here explores the nuances of data collection and sharing via digital platforms in everyday CrossFit coaching practice. There is a gr
Fernando Filgueira: Latin America`s left shift: why, what it did, for how long and what comes after.
Fernando Filgueira, Senior researcher at CIPPEC (Argentina) and CIESU (Uruguay), and lead author for the UN-Women Gender Progress Report for Latin America and the Caribbean. ABSTRACT As countries in Lat

School impacts of violent relgious extremism
How does the spread of violent extremism in the Sahel region in Africa affect the access to education for boys and girls?