Hack Your Age: Imagine Technology For Your Future

Mon 14 – Fri 18 October 2024, 10am – 2pm

Citadel Youth Centre

175 Commercial Street

Leith, Edinburgh

EH6 6JE

Lunch Provided!

About:

The internet is becoming more embedded in our lives. But what information does it collect about you? Do you think it is designed for you? Do you know how it works or what it looks like? Do you trust it? Will it be important to your future happiness or health?

We are inviting those who are starting to consider their old age, now or in the future, to join us at the Citadel Youth Centre for a week of workshops from Mon 14 – Fri 18 October 2024, 10am – 2pm.

Through discussion, storytelling, theatre and crafts, we will make props and short performances based on your own future selves. We will explore what matters to you when it comes to the future, and the role technology might play in this (or not!). You will have a chance to “break the internet” in a safe space and make your own fictional technology for an imagined future. No specialist knowledge is required to enjoy this workshop – just bring your imagination and curiosity.

Hack Your Age blends tech and drama to explore what the role of technology will be in the future especially in our older age. It’s for younger and older people from all backgrounds and cultures.

In the programme we will:

• Explore what technology means in our lives today.
• Invent new technology that might exist in 10, 20 or 50 years time.
• Create and perform dramas about how that technology might work and go (badly) wrong.
• Present a performance of the plays using prototypes of the new technology we invent on Friday the 18th October for an invited audience. This will kick off a discussion about what we want technology to do for us, both now and in the future.

For more info and to take part, contact Ryan McKay at:

ryan@citadelyouthcentre.org.uk