Tuesday
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
“Utopia or Dystopia? How will technology transform human bodies in the next 20 years?”
Yuval Noah Harari - “Human beings as we know them will disappear in a century or so”
Session 1 Introduction to todays tasks.
Session 2 and 3 with Sara Davey
Session 4 Illustration workshop
Question Time Debate
“Is humanity in crisis yet? What will education look like in the future?”
An audience with religious, scientific, ecological, political and cultural representatives.
Team Task
Research the likely changes to a human body from conception to death over the next 20 years.
Create you own team cyborg to present to others through an artistic form
This could include sculpture, art, music, drama, cartoon, animation or dance.
Key Vocabulary for Human 3.0
Cyborg Gene editing Exoskeleton Bionic devices Prosthetic limbs Transpecies Anthropocene Artificial intelligence
Cognitive enhancement Robotic organs Transhuman Cochlear implant Brain-computer interface Bio-enhancement
Designer Babies Body modification Utopia Dystopia Big data algorithms Bots Nanotechnology
Q: What might our bodies look like in the future?
Review of Day
Today the students worked in groups to try to imagine how we will biologically interact with technology. The results were quite fascinating and it was obvious that they had done a lot of research and thought very deeply about the issues involved.