Laura Watts

Laura Watts is an 'Ethnographer of Futures' and writer, artist, poet, and scholar. She is an Interdisciplinary Senior Lecturer in Geography and the Lived Environment, Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, working at the intersection of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies (STS). Her research and writing explores the way the landscape effects the way the future is imagined and made...

She has developed futures for the telecoms industry, the public transport sector, and has spent the last decade working on renewable energy futures with Orkney, Scotland. She is known for both her poetic writing style and her storytelling performances. She is currently completing a novel.