Our standard rooms are for single attendees sharing with another writer. If you'd like to bring a spouse or guest, we can arrange for a room upgrade (additional fees apply).

Amerigo Vespucci Airport is 7 km from the city center. However, most people fly into either Rome or Venice and take the train to Florence (and it lets you see the Italian countryside along the way!).

As with many organizations, the time has come to address AI. 

Futurescapes works to ensure that the intellectual property of each applicant and participant is respected and protected. We will not use any material submitted to the workshop for any commercial or public purpose. Should we seek to use an excerpt of a student or applicant's work, we will only do so with prior consent. We will also always provide just compensation at competitive market rates.

Generative AI technologies, which can generate creative materials due to their incorporation of innumerable literary and creative works into their predictive software - generally without consent - pose a serious challenge to the protection and creation of original intellectual property. As such, it is prohibited for any staff, student, applicant, faculty member or any other individual affiliated with Futurescapes, to utilize generative AI in the course of creating material for a Futurescapes workshop or program or in generating feedback on the creative materials of a participant of a workshop or Futurescapes-affiliated program.

Two exceptions exist:

1. AI-generated material created as part of student's creative work may be acceptable if it is clearly labeled. The following schema is required for material directly derived from AI-generation (direct quote or paraphrased material) [This Material was generated with the help of AI] content [Close of AI-Generated Material]. For other uses of AI in your creative work, it is reasonable to provide an italicized explanation and justification at the top of the creative work.

2. Feedback provided to another student or participant may utilize ai-generated material if express prior consent is received in writing from the student for whom feedback is to be generated.  

Above all, faculty, staff, students and any party affiliated with the workshop will operate out of respect for the intellectual property of others and in full honesty and transparency regarding their own creative work. Failure to do so may result in expulsion from the workshop, or any affiliated program, without refund of tuition or fees.

Here are a few things we’ve learned over the years:

• Come prepared. Read the submissions of your group members, prep your feedback, and be prepared with questions on your own submission.

• Interact with other participants. One of the best parts of Futurescapes is the community. Jump on the Discord, connect with each other on social media, and enjoy having other writers around. Whether it’s your cohort or other workshop participants as well, now is the time to make lifelong friends.

• Ask the questions. If you have a question, ask it. There will be multiple Q&A sessions for you to ask those pressing questions.

• Be present. We know it can be hard to fully focus on anything with all the things we have going on in our life, but try to give all the attention

• Take time to reflect. After your sessions, take time to reflect on the feedback you receive before the next day. Whether that’s right after your session, or later that night, reflect on the feedback. It may help jostle lose an extra question or start your brain churning on a new idea.

Join whenever you can. There are social events and Q&A sessions that are optional. If you have the time, hop on whatever you can. It’s a great way to learn and meet others.