Tales from… Episode #2 A New High Street

Ben Greenaway
talesfromthecybersalon
2 min readJun 2, 2021

Cybersalon presents: ‘Tales from the Cyber Salon’; a series of interdisciplinary, technology and policy investigations through science-fiction storytelling. Spanning four events across the year, ‘Tales from the Cyber Salon’ will feature newly commissioned, speculative short stories written for the exploration of Healthcare, The High Street, Social Communities and Political Representation.

Four new stories now available here.

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Join us for our second event on Tuesday, 8th June when we will be interrogating near-future and post-retail visions of the high street and reimagining the centres of our towns and cities.

To help explore our tales on this theme and those of the accelerated, digital transformations brought about by Covid-19 we will be joined on the night by:

  • Priya Prakash (@priyascape) — Founder & CEO of Design for Social Change, BSI Smart Cities Interoperability Committee Member, D&AD Impact Council Jury President & Member
  • Rachael Armstrong — Professor of Experimental Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, 2010 Senior TED Fellow & Metabolism Lead Coordinator for the Living Architecture Systems Group
  • Paul Wilson — Chief Business Officer of Connected Places Catapult & Chair of the Advisory Board for Smart Cities World

Telling their tales on the night and providing their stories from June 2nd on Cybersalon’s Medium page to seed the discussion will be;

  • Vaughan Stanger
  • George Jacobs
  • Stephen Oram
  • Jane Norris

Cybersalon Chairperson: Eva Pascoe

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Ben Greenaway
talesfromthecybersalon

I write to avoid a life in politics and to shortcut the product development cycle!