Futures Thinking Seminar: Exploring lived futures through place and heritage
- Tuesday 27 January 2026
- 12:30 - 14:00
- Audience: Open to the public, staff and students
- Booking: This event is free
Join us in welcoming Professor Richard Sandford for the fifth talk in our Meddwl am y Dyfodol | Futures Thinking lecture series.
Speaker
Professor Richard Sandford
Professor of Heritage Evidence, Foresight and Policy at UCL
Richard Sandford is Professor of Heritage Evidence, Foresight and Policy at UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Heritage, where his research explores the relationship between heritage and the future, drawing on notions of care, maintenance and repair to develop alternative orientations towards the future, and developing an account of the particular capacities of heritage practices to shape the future. Before joining UCL, Richard led horizon-scanning teams in the UK Civil Service, developing the capacity of strategy and policy groups across government to work with long-term change and uncertainty. His previous research in education futures addressed young peoples’ ideas of the future, futures literacy, and the place of new media technologies in learning.
Contact
- Welsh School of Architecture
- [email protected]
Location
Bute Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF10 3NB