Exploration Bazaar
Ignite your curiosity, play with new ideas and join the debate at our free showcase of the tech, projects and people at the forefront of creative AI innovation.
Dive into a debate, discover new perspectives on the future of AI or spend time exploring and playing in the Exploration Bazaar with the emerging creative technologists who are pushing the boundaries of art, design and tech.
Drop by and meet students, researchers and creative technologists from Royal College of Art, UAL Creative Computing Institute, Goldsmiths University and City St George’s. Get to know their always innovative and often surprising projects exploring the changing relationship between creativity and technology.
Say hello to the people behind the work, try out ideas, ask questions and leave with new ways of thinking about AI, art, design, learning and everyday life.
Fancy getting your teeth stuck into the juiciest questions around the future of AI? We’ve got a series of accompanying pop-up public debates and live conversations bringing together artists, experts, young people and, most importantly, you!
Join the conversation as we tackle ideas like: What do we want from the future of AI? How might we shape the way we use AI to create, learn and work? And how can we protect human wellbeing as these technologies become part of daily life?
Exploration Bazaar, a free public showcase at the heart of Creative Intelligence, is brought to you by digital and AI agencies Unthinkable and EVR.
Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre. Curated with PACT – Planetary Art Culture Technology.
Need to know
1pm
The future of AI and creativity
Host: Justin Spooner
Provocateur: Dr Rachel Falconer
Rachel Falconer is Head of Subject for Creative Technology at Goldsmiths University and a digital art curator, researcher, writer and educator working at the intersection of contemporary art and emerging technologies. Her work brings a critically optimistic perspective to how AI is reshaping authorship, agency and creative collaboration and how artists can challenge, reimagine and transform the systems entering our culture.
3pm
The future of AI and learning
Host: Prof. Rose Luckin
Provocateur: Lord Jim Knight
Lord Jim Knight is a former Schools Minister and member of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, with a career spanning education, public policy and technology. As Chair of Century Tech and STEM Learning, he brings first-hand insight into how AI is reshaping teaching and learning and the choices we face about education’s future.
5pm
The future of AI and wellbeing
Host: Justin Spooner
Provocateur: Laura Kirsop
Laura Kirsop is Interim Chief Technology and Product Officer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, where she leads the development of digital products that help young people learn, create and think critically with technology. Drawing on her work in educational technology, she brings a vital perspective on how AI can enhance learning while still protecting young people’s agency, safety and wellbeing.
1pm
The future of AI and creativity
Host: Justin Spooner
Provocateur: To be announced
3pm
The future of AI and learning
Host: Prof. Rose Luckin
Provocateur: Mark Martin
Mark Martin is an educator and Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Education Practice who has spent two decades championing digital skills, inclusive innovation and equitable access to technology. He recently launched the UK’s first National AI Awareness Day, bringing schools together to help young people understand AI, question how it works and learn to use it wisely.
5pm
The future of AI and work
Host: Prof. Rose Luckin
Provocateur: Jessie Auguste
Jessie Auguste is an award-winning software engineer and co-founder of Glowing in Tech, a community platform amplifying underrepresented voices in technology. Working at the frontline of software development, she brings a first-hand perspective on how AI is reshaping jobs, skills and professional identity and on who gets to participate in that future.
Professor Rose Luckin is an expert on AI in education, with more than 30 years’ experience exploring how technology can strengthen teaching and learning while keeping human intelligence at the centre. She is Professor Emerita of Learner Centred Design at UCL and founder and CEO of Educate Ventures Research. A prolific author and co-founder of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education, she brings a deeply informed but practical perspective on how education must evolve in an AI-shaped world.
Justin Spooner is Co-founder and Director of digital innovation studio Unthinkable. As co-curator of Exploration Bazaar, his focus is on how we can shape technological change on our own terms – protecting human judgement, critical thinking and wellbeing while expanding the ways people imagine, make, connect and collaborate.
Times & tickets
Dates, times and prices
Dates & times
12 Sep & 13 Sep 2026, 12 noon
Run time
7 hours and 30 minutes (approx)
All timings are approximate and subject to change
Standard entry
Free – no ticket required
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For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.
Plan your visit
The Clore Ballroom is located inside our Royal Festival Hall on Level 2.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
There is step-free access to The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, via a ramp.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.