Vauxhall Ampera Forethought Series 

Kings Cross Filling Station

Running over three evenings, three very different partners present a night of thought and ideas, exploring how technology and science are changing our lives

The Vauxhall Ampera Forethought Series is the first event of the 'Vauxhall Ampera Season', the inaugural season of programming at the newly created King’s Cross Filling Station (KXFS), London’s latest landmark.

The Vauxhall Ampera Season will run from July to December 2012 and will explore emerging ideas within modern culture, encompassing popular science, future technology and new thinking through a series of five projects and commissions.

Vauxhall Ampera Forethought Series:

Tuesday 10th July - Motor Culture
Debating heavyweights Intelligence Squared – who have previously hosted such celebrated speakers as Stephen Fry, Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal and Germaine Greer amongst others – will present Motor Culture a discussion on the past and future of mobility.
Speakers include:
• Luke Wright – Poet, speaks about the poet's journey across Britain’s service stations
• Steven Bayley - author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, debater and curator. Debates on the line - “I want that line to have a duflunky, to come across, have a little hook in it, and then do a rashoom or zong” – which is a quote from Harley Earl, the person who invented car styling at General Motors.
• Geoff Dyer - Author and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature speaks about the Filling Station and its significance
• Dr Michael Jump - Aerospace Engineer and lecturer at the University of Liverpool will look at the possibilities for the future of the car including the creation of a flying car

Wednesday 11th July - Four Things You Need to Know for the Future
Wired magazine offer Four Things You Need to Know for the Future with four forward thinkers as a guide to technological innovations that everyone should understand, in a night hosted by Wired culture editor Tom Cheshire.
Speakers include:
• J. Paul Neeley - Founder of search engine Yossarian Lives which is changing the way we access information through metaphorical searching
• Michael Breidenbrücker - Founder of RjDj, an app that makes music on your iphone react to the environment
• Jenny Rohn - Cell Biologist who’s research includes manipulating cell shape through genetics for medical research against tumours

Thursday 12th July - The New City
Architecture and design magazine Wallpaper will curate a line-up on The New City, with pioneering ideas that are changing the way we live and build. A line up of four speakers offer ideas at the forefront of architecture and urbanism.
Speakers include:
• Joe Morris, director Duggan Morris Architects
• Patrick Lynch, director Lynch Architects
• David Liddicoat & Sophie Goldhill, Liddicoat & Goldhill Architects
• Nick Searl, senior projects director, Argent Group

Register for tickets at www.kxfs.co.uk
Drinks and pizza are on sale at KXFS every day from 12pm-10pm

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