Future Places Centre (FPC), Lancaster

Please note that this is a legacy entry reflecting past infrastructure activity and contributions. It is not currently active.

Description

The Future Places Centre (FPC) at Lancaster University was a Digital Economy Centre on understanding places through everyday computing, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2020. It built on the University’s projects on pervasive computing, the Internet of Things and the natural environment, on futures thinking and on data science, and its research agendas were built on co-creation methodologies with its partners. Its work ran across three themes: Natural Environment, Built Environment and Healthy Living. Its activities included a writer in residence, an environmental essay and poetry prize, the 2022 conference Reimagining Landscape: Environment Communication and the Humanities, and the Arnside Lectures. The centre held its closing celebration on 9 July 2025, presented with the University’s School of Arts.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2020

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University affiliation(s)

Lancaster University
Lancaster

Additional Partnerships

Eden Project North; Lancaster City Council; Lancashire County Council; West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Liverpool CCG; Morecambe Bay Health and Care Partners; Public Health England; Local Council Roads Innovation Group; Blackpool and Fylde College; Blackpool Council; Bristol Council; Heathfield Residential Home; Improva Group; Regenda Homes; Halton Housing; Microsoft Research Cambridge; The Micro-Bit Foundation; Hardy Ellis Innovations; Media 11 Matter; Connected Places Catapult; Small World Consulting; The RSPB; Food Futures - The Closing Loops Project; Escape 2 Make; Samsung; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Sydney; University of Melbourne; University of Technology, Sydney; Interactive Technologies Institute (University of Lisbon); Università della Svizzera italiana; Ludwig Maximilians Universität München; LArsys