Nick Dunn, ImaginationLancaster, and author of the Foresight report 'A Visual History of the Future', looks at how future cities have been depicted over the last 100 years. He considers what these depictions sought to communicate and why; what types of city visions have had the most influence on UK cities; and the important role they have in shaping our thinking on cities and our future urban strategies.

Speaker biography:

Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design at ImaginationLancaster and Associate Director of Research of the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University. He is Associate Director of the Institute for Social Futures, where he also leads research in the Future of Cities and Urbanism. In particular, he is interested in why and how (maybe even where and when) we design, rather than what we design.

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