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Al Jazeera Futures

In September 2013, Carbon was approached by Al Jazeera to provide insight and perspective on a proposed science and technology segment for aljazeera.com anchored by Tarek Bazley. Using Al Jazeera’s editorial stance in challenging powerful orthodoxies with an alternative and activist perspectives, Carbon formulated editorial, narrative and thematic frameworks through which Al Jazeera could providing a consistent
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Leeds Creative Labs

The labs are a mechanism to help the University of Leeds’ Creative & Cultural Industries Exchange and its partners innovate their academic research by catalysing collaborations between academics and the region’s creative and cultural industries. The lab curates cohorts of academics, students and creative technologists to prototype new works, ideas and methodologies at the intersection of art and technology,
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Life Online

Tracing the history of the internet, the National Media Museum’s Life Online was the world’s first gallery dedicated to exploring the social, technological and cultural impact of the internet. In late 2011, Imran was asked to join the advisory board for the gallery, contributing to the discussions that would shape the gallery’s content and a series of launch events in Spring 2012. As part of its spi
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FutureEverything

Carbon was commissioned by Manchester’s FutureEverything festival to appoint Imran as Conference Director for the 2011 edition, bringing our knowledge of emerging technologies and adjacent cultures to one of the world’s leading idea festivals. Carbon was tasked with programming and curating the conference element of the festival, developing narrative themes, recruiting speakers and panellists, evaluating
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