Q&A – Michael Slaby
Q&A from the keynote session with Michael Slaby (Avens, Harmony Labs)
Sep 01, 2023•9 min
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Johanna Koljonen – Opening Remarks
Returning moderator extraordinaire, Johanna Koljonen, opens The Conference 2023 and extends a warm welcome to the participants. She begins with a reflection on the personal financial situation that many of us have faced due to last year's economic turmoil. She states, "Working in this economy, we're facing a lot of pressure that we previously have not experienced," and connects environmental threats, financial anxiety, and the unease of social securities, all leading us to a state of prolonged w...
Sep 01, 2023•10 min
Q&A - Enacting Care
Q&A from the session Enacting Care – Putting Sustainability Into Practice with Deb Chachra (Olin College), Becky Lyon (Artist) and Ledama Masidza (Oceans Alive)
Sep 01, 2023•12 min
Monika Bielskyte - Protopia vs TESCREAL Visions of Tech Rapture
In what kind of future would you like to live? Blade Runner or Black Panther? For too long, our futures have been determined by immature science fiction imaginaries still stuck in the mid to late 20th century. Their utopian and dystopian binaries now provide fertile inspiration for police-state-aesthetic VC pitch decks and a cluster of ideologies known as TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. Moreover, many of these ...
Sep 01, 2023•58 min
Ledama Masidza – Weaving a Tapestry of Community for Ecological Care | The...
“We can only manage what we know.” Ubuntu is a concept that embraces the interconnectedness between all living things. No one is independent of the fact that our existence is directly dependent on the care between human and nonhuman communities. Ledama shared a story of hope, the case of Kuruwitu, a fishing community in Kenya that managed to heal itself from impacts of overfishing, coral bleaching and climate change. They did this through collaborative care, and harnessing the collective intelli...
Sep 01, 2023•15 min
Debbie Chachra – How Infrastructure Works
“Energy is general purpose freedom.” “The earth is in a void, every atom has to come from some place, and go somewhere.“ Infrastructure might not be the first thing we think of when we hear the word “care”, but these systems are manifestations of how we ensure quality of life as a society. Debbie Chachra refers to a quote of Amartya Sen - “We want wealth not because it's desirable on its own, but because it gives freedom to actually do what gives life value.” In her talk Debbie pointed out that ...
Sep 01, 2023•16 min
Becky Lyon – A Carrier Bag for Care-Full, and Co-flourishing Decision Making
“The master's house cannot be rebuilt with master's tools.“ “A physical shift with our bodies can shift how we think about a problem.” In her talk, Becky Lyon reminded us that we need to get back to our bodies, in order to create a world where we can thrive. In the dominant European American system the body has been estranged in favor of the rational, the evidence-based and the narrow. It caused us to step outside of ourselves, placing the notion within us that nature is outside of ourselves. Wh...
Sep 01, 2023•18 min
Timothée Parrique – How to Blow Up an Economy
When everyone else calls for economic growth, innovation, and addition, Timothée Parrique demands demolition, sabotage, and removal. Our strive towards infinite growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. So far, no economy in the world has managed to grow its economy without overshooting the planetary boundaries. That’s why we need an economic strategy based on subtractions, not additions. And we need to rethink the economy's purpose, as growth tells us nothing about prosperity and well-being...
Sep 01, 2023•15 min
Dr. Eduardo Castello Ferrer – Blockchain, Robotics and Economic Autonomy
Have you ever met a self-employed autonomous robot artist? Introducing Gaka-chu ("painter" in Japanese), a 6-axis robot arm that creates artistic paintings of Japanese characters. While robots have historically been treated as labour, Gaka-chu explores the concept of claiming agency and economic autonomy using blockchain-based smart contracts. So, can robots actually maintain themselves? And if so, what implications do these economically autonomous robots have? Eduardo argues that instead of tre...
Sep 01, 2023•14 min
Jenny Grettve – Feminist Economies
With severe catastrophes happening around us constantly - ecologically, economically, as well as socially - we tend to feel hopeless. But hopelessness is for the privileged. Our fear makes us hold on to things we already know instead of pursuing new things. We feel lost and want to think that crisis happens elsewhere - climate change does not affect me or my loved ones. But it actually does: When climate injustice happens somewhere, it happens everywhere. And as human beings, we have to act on i...
Aug 31, 2023•16 min
Cassie Robinson – Emerging Futures: Patterning the Third Horizon
Cassie Robinson Associate Director of Emerging Future at Joseph Rowntree Foundation “There’s always something growing and declining at the same time. I am ending and beginning at the same time.” From external events such as the pandemic to the hyper speed development of AI and tech to the increasingly urgent climate crisis discourses, how do we navigate ourselves in the midst of all these life-changing events? Are all changes – particularly the ones that liken to the ending of a cycle – inevitab...
Aug 31, 2023•45 min
Liselott Stenfeldt – The Senses of Belonging
“People don’t change behaviour just because you tell them too. People need innovation in a public space to change” “Space and life goes together, and it's important to work with them together.” “Wise cities are making the invisible visible” and the ways we can make it visible means listening and looking at a variety of different data sources. Liselott Stenfeldt is the head of research and development at Gehl, a company which has been playing a leading role in understanding and supporting public ...
Aug 31, 2023•14 min
Ling Tan – Why Participate?
“Work with people who disagree with you and with each other and still work together. This is where participation can begin.“ “Reflection to time and place is important to make people participate.” How do we get people to participate in creating the cities that they want? And once we do, how do we get them to act towards a common goal? These are some of the questions that Ling Tan works with on a daily basis and addressed in her talk. In order to create collective action, meaning getting people w...
Aug 31, 2023•13 min
Arnaud Grignard – Tangible Interfaces For Urban Spaces
“The goal is to share knowledge through open-sourced tools, and for people to use them as much as possible” In his presentation, Arnaud Grignard shared some of the work he does with his team at the City Science group at the MIT Lab, specifically a tool called City Scope. The common thread for all examples was how this tool made it possible to use data visualisation to analyse patterns and potential outcomes when developing cities. By building physical representations of cities, and projecting da...
Aug 31, 2023•16 min
Q&A – Imagining Institutions
Q&A from the session Imagining Institutions – (Re)making the Pillars of a Liquid Society with Dan Lockton (TU Eindhoven) and Anne Kaun (Södertörn University)
Aug 31, 2023•23 min
Dan Lockton - Plural Imaginaries In an Age of Crises
How can we think about institutions differently? In a world of competing fictions, imaginaries are one our most potent resources. Dan Lockton wants to get imaginaries out of people's heads and into a shared space - to do things differently as a result. He has a few ideas about how to do so. Metaphors are central to our imagination. They have the power to harm, to limit, but also to create. So, in the quest to reimagine institutions, Dan proposes the creation of new metaphors, and has created a t...
Aug 31, 2023•20 min
Anne Kaun – Automating Welfare: Interfaces and Backends of the Digital...
Reimagining public infrastructures and systems has the potential to enhance accessibility and usefulness for diverse groups within society. Instead of taking a starting point in creating digital tools (which is often the case), Anne Kaun suggests looking into the frictions that emerge in the use of digital platforms and infrastructures. Anne stages a scene, drawn from her real-life research to exemplify marginal stories of problems with navigating digital platforms and services. Imagine a woman ...
Aug 31, 2023•14 min
Michael Slaby – On the Possibility of a Utopi-Yin Path Forward
What if the cracks in our social and civic institutions are not signs of collapse but the first signs of transformation? Let’s face it: We’ve been living in an overly masculine society focused on dominion, growth, labour as a source of dignity, achievement as our basis of meaning and productivity as our key to purpose. But it’s a tale as old as humankind — and one we’ve put on to ourselves as a survival mechanism. Now, it’s on us to stop being at odds with nature. It’s a role that no longer serv...
Aug 31, 2023•33 min
Audrey Tang – Alignment Assemblies and Collective Intelligence
With the nuclear bombs detonating in 1945, Pandora’s box was unlocked. For Audrey Tang, Minister of Digital Affairs in Taiwan, Artificial Intelligence represents another box of Pandora that challenges us to think about how we can avoid the pitfalls for society and achieve collective global action. We as a society have a choice: Are we going to tumble into the abyss of abuse, manipulation, threat, cyber attacks, and deep fake, or are we going to embrace shared values, democracy, and global AI coo...
Aug 31, 2023•10 min
Q&A – Entangled Economies
Q&A from the session Entangled Economies - Creating Value with Generosity and Interdependence with Jenny Grettve (Anon, When!When!), Timothee Parrique (Lund University), Eduardo Castello Ferrer (MIT).
Aug 30, 2023•8 min
Q&A – Wise Cities
Q&A from the session Wise Cities – Architecting Vibrant Connectivity with Liselott Stenfeldt (Gehl), Ling Tan (Kakilang,Umbrellium), Arnaud Grignard (Université de Lyon / MIT Media Lab).
Aug 30, 2023•7 min
Ann Rosén – Opening performance
Artist and composer Ann Rosén performs a short concert. Ann Rosén (born 1956) is the composer, musician and artist who began her career in the visual arts in the 1980s with interactive, intelligent, and intriguing works. Since the 1990s, the artistic focus has been on music and sound art and Rosén has more than one hundred works behind her. The works have been performed at the Swedish Royal Opera, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and South Bank in London, among others Rosén’s art revolves around the...
Aug 29, 2022•4 min
Johanna Koljonen – Opening remarks 2022
Moderator Johanna Koljonen opens The Conference 2022.
Aug 29, 2022•10 min
Jordi Roca – Senses and Sensibilities
“Why not create a dish from the smell of old book?” “The most beautiful idea is to be able to eat a song.” Senses can evoke memories. Jordi Roca explores the connection and interaction between senses, childhood memories, smell and taste. Inspired by Marcel Proust and his ‘In Search of Lost Time’, Jordi shares about his work evoking memories through smell, taste and texture: how he created desserts inspired by perfumes by deconstructing each perfume to create an aroma leading to him making his ow...
Aug 29, 2022•35 min
Liam Young – Senses and Sensibilities
“Fiction is an extraordinary shared language.” Fiction is a product of culture but it also produces culture: it impacts how we see the world. The line between fiction and reality is a thin one, and the urban space is one where our imaginaries are often played out. Through his piece ‘The Planet City’, Liam Young takes us on a cinematic drift through imaginary worlds: one fictional, one we are currently living in. What if we stepped back, made room and let global wilderness return? How do these fi...
Aug 29, 2022•40 min
Matt Webb – How to use a computer
“Search is not a query. It’s always a conversation. You’re not building a search engine - you’re building a tool for users to embark on a knowledge quest.” Matt Webb explores how different types of common search mechanisms online work and the type of results they return. He goes through a history of more analogue search systems to give context to the search algorithms we all use today. Matt frames search as not being a query but rather a conversation where people are using the search tool to emb...
Aug 29, 2022•17 min
Hillary Juma – How to use a computer
“How will we garden the future of our abilities to speak with computers?” Hillary Juma spoke about how each of us has a different experience interacting with voice recognition systems. The challenges we face in our interactions with voice recognition software differ significantly, for example some accents aren’t understood by systems as well as others because they were not included in training data sets. Being diagnosed with dyslexia prompted Hillary to interact more with the voice-to-text syste...
Aug 29, 2022•14 min
Maya Man – How to use a computer
“My entire life my sense of self has been mediated by a computer screen.” Growing up, Maya Man has always been fascinated with the presentation of self and the meaning of true authenticity in different contexts. Her sense of self has always been mediated by a computer screen, leading her to experiment with the possibilities this presented but also feel that everything she was doing was some form of performance for a third person audience. In her recent work, she has subverted the tone of voice o...
Aug 29, 2022•18 min
Q&A – How to use a computer
Q&A for the session How to use a computer featuring Matt Webb, Hilary Juma and Maya Man
Aug 29, 2022•2 min
Carl Benedikt Frey – Work – what science says
“Occupations paying less than 20 dollars per hour are most at risk to be replaced by technology.” How do you heighten your chances of making money for rent in the future? Carl Benedikt Frey suggests creativity, social intelligence and the abilities to perceive and manipulate will be central skills. These particular skills are still proving hard to automate through Artificial Intelligence. So how do we build and strengthen these skills? Does our education system and social environments support th...
Aug 29, 2022•16 min
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