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. She works at the intersection of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology. Her research and writing explores: “How does landscape effect the way the future is imagined and made? And how might places at the edge make the future otherwise?” She is the author of Energy at the End of the World: an Orkney Islands Saga, which tells the story of how these islands are making their own energy future, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at what some see as the edge of the world.

Session: Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga