The Future of Education… but make it a meme.
Join us for a playful, interactive online workshop where we’ll use memes as a tool for imagining the future of education. Together with educators, innovators, change-makers, and curious minds, we’ll explore how humor and critique can spark new perspectives, create space for dialogue, and inspire collective visions.
Bring 1–2 of your favorite memes (education-related if possible, but any meme that made you laugh, think, or feel seen works). We’ll use them as starting points for conversation and co-creation.
Expect meme-sharing, creative co-design in breakout rooms, and a gallery of “postcards from the future” that capture our hopes, critiques, and visions for education’s tomorrow — possible, probable, preferred, and playful. Think of it as a futuring session with extra humor and creativity.
Need some inspiration? You can explore meme repositories e.g., https://imgflip.com/memetemplates?sort=top-all-time
Lead Workshop Facilitator
Esranur Efeoglu
Esranur is a researcher in language studies, working at the intersection of linguistics and language education. She holds a PhD in Language Studies from METU and completed her postdoctoral project at King’s College London, at the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication. Her research focuses on crisis discourses, youth language, and multimodal linguistic practices in digital contexts. She is the co-founder and co-convener of the Discourse and Corpus Research Group at METU, as well as the co-convener of the Corpus and Beyond seminar series at King’s College London. More recently, she has started exploring and incorporating art-based research methodologies, reflecting her interest in creativity and imagination as key dimensions of language and interaction.