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“We need an infrastructure that deepens our spiritual connection to the world – a spiritual infrastructure.” Filmmaker, designer and futuris...
”We don’t have an energy problem, we have a matter problem.” Matt Jones (he/him) has been designing digital products and services since 1995...
Kickstarter helps bring projects to life and as the first crowdfunding platform with $7 billion pledged and 239,000 projects funded, so what...
“It’s very fun to make AI tools magical. [...] But when you make AI feel airy, you remove the possibility for people to ask questions. So it...
“Could AI ever be a common pool of resources?” Researcher Somya Joshi makes a compelling observation: the same extractive narratives of 19th...
The Conference's main partner IBM hosted a talk during Wednesday’s Getting Grounded session focusing on approaches on AI, its uses and adapt...
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The Conference's partner IKEA hosted a talk during Wednesday’s Getting Grounded session focusing on IKEA most recent findings on play, desig...
The Q&A from the session Late-Stage Digitalization with Somya Joshi and Trudy Painter
The Conference's main partner IBM hosted a talk during Wednesday’s Getting Grounded session focusing on approaches on AI, its uses and adapt...
“How do we protect something we do not love and do not understand?” Seán Ronayne is the ornithologist who came up with the idea to sound-rec...
“We are living in a world where we do not agree.” The spoken word artist Joshua Idehen kicks off the session by delivering a humorous perfor...
Q&A from the session Structuring Structures with Jenny L Beijar, Marco Guadarrama, Emily Best, Sarah Watson and Györgi Gálik
Think about your childhood – what made you feel safe at home? For many of us, our childhoods were unplugged. Now, times have changed. We’re...
“Software is an interesting medium. At least in theory, once you make something and it doesn’t become successful, it doesn’t cost anything t...
Q&A from the session Entangled and Enmeshed with Andie Nordgren, Tony Olsson and Matt Jones
This century will be defined by society’s capacity to respond to climate breakdown. It’s not going to be like the movies, a CGI spectacle of...
“Almost everyone has a story connected to their mobile phone. They are deeply personal and interconnected with our daily lives.” But what if...
“When we know who enters what, we can also adapt the situation accordingly” As a part of the session ”Entangled and Enmeshed”, Tony Olsson s...
Are we in control of technological megasystems, or are they in fact controlling us? By taking on a critical approach to modern technology, G...
The Q&A from session Time, Trust and Wisdom with Monika Jiang, Gustavo Noguiera de Menezes and Valeria Adani
“Trust is an outcome – not something you can design for.” For many years designers and users alike have been pushing for “seamless” technolo...
“Underneath the experience of loneliness is always a longing”. It is not part of our human nature to isolate ourselves from others – yet thi...
Katlyn’s talk digs deep into a critical question: "How did we get here?" She challenges us to confront a deeply embedded paradigm—the "Twin...
The Q&A session from Shifting Systems with Dan Shefet and Dr. Katlyn Turner
What connects Leonardo DiCaprio with the Grateful Dead, a 16th century Dutch diplomat, and a tech CEO recently arrested in a French airport....
“We are the time travelers we’ve been waiting for”. Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes – Gust for short – founder of Temporality Lab, takes us on a...
”What future will we dream when we dream with plants?” Jemma (she/her) is an artist, writer and curator working with plant intelligence and...
“As we eat food we are consuming things that we don’t even know what’s in there, because they are unknown and we don’t even know where to lo...
The Q&A from the session Planting the Seeds with Jemma Foster and John De La Parra
Moderator Johanna Koljonen speaks to a packed Theatre stage before the closing keynote on Wednesday. She talks of the collective dreams that...
The Q&A from session Rewilding Us with Giulia Testa, Michael Kibedi and Seowoo Nam
”Climate change is hard to sense but we can try to rewild ourselves by reconnecting our senses to the planet.” Data definitely feels more ha...
“We should look inwards and consider who gets to be called a designer and think of the cultural exclusion that’s happening there.” In this i...
“By adding AI to software we can create something magical.” Ella Fitzsimmons cleverly draws parallels between AI and how magic has been used...
“Sometimes one has to travel to another planet in order to understand what is going on in one’s own”. — Trojan Horse James Taylor-Foster exp...
“Through others we become ourselves, we learn, we grow and acquire knowledge”. As society becomes increasingly digital, people become more s...
The Q&A from session Learning How to Learn with Ella Fitzsimmons, James Taylor-Foster and Lore Oxford
“Do we want species to exist only at the bare minimum, just above the threshold of being considered endangered, or do we want a thriving nat...
What does a climavore eat? More than a diet, it’s a call to address the manmade seasons created by pollution, soil exhaustion, and fertilise...
The Q&A from the session Manufacturing Materiality with Rosa Whitely and Laura Feinstein
Beloved The Conference moderator Johanna Koljonen opens the 2024 edition with restating the question Joshua Idehen asked in his performance:...
British artist Joshua Idehen (he/him) opens The Conference 2024 with a spoken word performance in which he asks the audience “how did you ge...
”We need to move from transaction to relationship.” Nipun Mehta brings us on a transcendental journey to find our compassionate selves. Thro...
Johanna Koljonen closes 2023's The Conference with a recap how we as participators have tried to move away from oppositional binaries but al...
Examining the creativity of generative artificial intelligence tools brings up interesting parallels with human cognition. Just as AI system...
BITOI stands for Bass is the original instrument. BITOI are exploring the boundaries of the voice and the electric bass. The band is made up...
Q&A from the sessions Tending To Transformation – For Creative Leaders Who Stay With The Trouble with Pernilla Glaser (Author, Educator), Ly...
“Are you willing to dig deep and choose what your heart wants in the face of fear?” How can we begin to view the work that we do as a journe...
“Take time to pay attention. Not everything can be solved in 15 minutes, let it take the time it takes” “Stay in the hard and uncomfortable...