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THE 2021 FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
RUNNING 1-30 NOVEMBER 2021
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Creative SHORT Project 3: Costs of convenience - The Secret Life of your smartphone

Environment Themed

What’s on offer?

The online event features the launch of the third of 3 short film/ animations created as part of Cambridge SHORTS Project with an accompanying interview with the researchers. Through out the screening there will be an opportunity to ask questions to the researchers and creative over Twitter: @CamUniEngage

What’s it about?

We take a look at some of the key research taking place at the University of Cambridge on challenging topics that impact our daily lives and the way we perceive our future:     

The secret life of your smartphone - its emissions before reaching your hand.  Within this provocation we are bringing together several perspectives on product development and technological waste. People are passionate about their phones, but this also makes them vulnerable to upgrade pressures and planned obsolescence. This, therefore, is an emotional as well as a technological and environmental issue as it concerns perhaps the most important piece of technology a person owns. The current conversation in the media is on how technology changes, but not on the emissions and impact it has made before reaching the consumer. This video will explore the 'embodied' emissions of the smartphone and how smartphone users can stay informed and lessen the environmental impact of this.  

As part of Cambridge Creative Shorts project, researchers at University of Cambridge joined forces with creative professionals to translate their research into a visual language of short films and animations to reach out to wider audiences. Join us for the screening of this innovative animation created through the collaboration between researchers; Amelia Jabry, John Naughton, Ramit Debnath, Jack Lynch, Duanyang Geng, Hunter Vaughan, from the University of Cambridge, The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy and creative, Stuart Holmes.

The online event features the launch of the short film and animations with accompanying interviews with researchers. Throughout the screening there will be an opportunity to ask questions to the researchers and creatives over Twitter: @CamUniEngage

To register for the event please go to Eventbrite. We’ll share information with the registered participants on how to join the screening closer to the day.

Who’s leading the event?

Researchers: Amelia Jabry, John Naughton, Ramit Debnath, Jack Lynch, Duanyang Geng, Hunter Vaughan, The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge
Creative: Stuart Holmes

Open to

Participants from all ages and background are welcome

Of particular interest to

Of particular interest to those who would like to know more about technological waste and how some technologies can be produced in more sustainable ways.