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Bedroom speculations: Nature Re-imagined

Bed Room The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A group exhibition featuring projects: Digital Tree Monument – What does a tree dream of? When an old, iconic tree disappears from our surroundings, it often invokes a feeling of loss. This project creates a digital archive of trees that have disappeared from the Castricum Duinbos. By Nicole Spit. NeoBio – what could emerge if the big commercial tech ... Read moreBedroom speculations: Nature Re-imagined

Hybrid Democracy Experience

Parool Theatre The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Experience what hybridization does to democratic deliberation and decision making. The session is a democracy simulation. The goal of the session is to co-create ten new rights that “fight digital inequality and ensure that data and technology is applied responsibly to guarantee a just, free and inclusive, democratic city”. In order to achieve that the ... Read moreHybrid Democracy Experience

Poetic AI Workshop

Auditorium The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Poetic AI workshop is an invitation to create new worlds with AI, exploring alternate human-machine choreographies. Poetry is an essential artform, with its urgency extending to spaces of reclamation, self expression and explorative imagination. During the workshop, we will invite participants to collaborate with a generative machine learning model to write a poem. Instead ... Read morePoetic AI Workshop

More than human education

Meeting Room 1 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

By seeing humankind as part of the natural world but not central, how can we start to design education from the perspective of all living beings, or a more than human perspective? Stepping outside our human bubble is the first challenge. Once we have taken this step we will experiment with designing interventions for a ... Read moreMore than human education

A Short History of Trust (+ Other Speculations) Infrastructures of Trust

Meeting Room 4 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Without social trust it is impossible to build complex democratic societies. In this lecture we explore how the construction of trust is historically interlinked with information technology, the understanding of objective truth, the ability to scale human cooperation and the sense of community. This societal entanglement can be called the ‘architecture of trust’. In this session ... Read moreA Short History of Trust (+ Other Speculations) Infrastructures of Trust

Digital public space development by and for Amsterdam

Meeting Room 2 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam and Waag develop the digital public space together with several partners in the city. The space consists of applications that allow Amsterdam residents to develop themselves, their opinions and to influence the developments in their city. How does this digital public space differ from the internet as we know it? Are there similarities with ... Read moreDigital public space development by and for Amsterdam

Control Wars: a participatory worldbuilding game (Special edition: AIs Gone Wild)

Meeting Room 3 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Control Wars is a participatory worldbuilding game and auto-theoretical research device that brings people together to explore the values, theories and strategies used to shape change and bring about societal transitions. The game mechanics of Control Wars is built on low-frequency generative conflict, role-play and fiction, used to expose often contradictory emerging scenarios pulsating in ... Read moreControl Wars: a participatory worldbuilding game (Special edition: AIs Gone Wild)

Imagining future urban environments

Parool Theatre The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

How do we use digital technologies to create spaces, works, to communicate, to explore, learn and teach? How do interactive multifunctional spaces and forms within our urban environment look like and how do they challenge us to step out of our comfort zone, think deeper and look further? During this inspirational talk Rich Holland, Experience ... Read moreImagining future urban environments

Is Democracy becoming more Hybrid?

Auditorium The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Society 5.0 is a vision of a human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems. It heavily depends on technological innovation and a full integration of digital and physical space. What will democracy look like in this hybrid future? What can we learn from the perils that plague the digital world ... Read moreIs Democracy becoming more Hybrid?

The power of conversations in landscape restoration

Meeting Room 1 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

In this workshop you will experience how connecting to nature can shift the way we talk about problems and solutions and how living systems can teach us to approach innovation in a transformative, engaging and sustainable way. Expect to use your heads, your hearts, and your hands, to move around and interact with people. You ... Read moreThe power of conversations in landscape restoration

What could the Digital Public Space be?

Meeting Room 3 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

What do you imagine a digital public space looks like? Can a space be digital? What is public space? What is needed for something to be digital public? Philosophical questions with practical consequences. Because what is necessary to develop and maintain such a digital public space? Who decides? The government of the public? And can ... Read moreWhat could the Digital Public Space be?

Co-creating beyond green. If it looks too good to be green, it probably is.

Meeting Room 2 The Student Hotel - Wibautstraat 129, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Co-creating sexy & sustainable futures. In this pressure-cooker diy session we will co-create sustainable futures, using visible and vibrant techniques. Think of prototyping scale models of the AUAS campus that make the energy consumption visible in unexpected ways. Participants explore how they can use, interpret and translate data into a prototype that enable others to ... Read moreCo-creating beyond green. If it looks too good to be green, it probably is.