2024 program
This year’s program embraces the powerful triad of hindsight, insight and foresight.
On day one, we look backwards into our many pasts—the systems, infrastructures, and relationships—before peering over the horizon on day two. We’ll look ahead to the tools and trends, creative spaces, and mental models needed to build many preferable futures.
Speakers and experiences are curated to help leaders and weavers make clear-eyed decisions in our present day. You’ll walk away with new mindsets and materials, teachings and tools, practices and parallels to help get us out of “oh fuck,” and into “now what?”
We’ll connect and reflect with radical candor, lean forward and learn in community, then move through to what’s next—inspired, informed, and invigorated with hope.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
The Theatre
hosted by
Johanna Koljonen
The Hall
hosted by
Kristoffer Tjalve
The Bar
hosted by
Himanshu Rohilla
08.00 - 09.00
Registration
Performance by JOSHUA IDEHEN
JEMMA FOSTER, Wild Alchemy Lab
JOHN DE LA PARRA , Rockefeller Foundation
09.00 - 10.15
KEYNOTE: Planting the Seeds
‘We scarcely have much choice….It is up to us to change our ways of changing’
(Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern)
10.00 - 10.45
BIG SNACK BREAK
10.45 - 11.45
Shifting Systems
KATLYN TURNER, MIT Media Lab
DAN SHEFET, Tech and human rights lawyer
"It is clear we are part of a series of systems. And those systems are both brittle and fragile and unexpectedly deep."
(Genevieve Bell, The Past, Present and Future of Technology)
10.45 - 11.45
Time, Trust & Wisdom
GUST NOGUEIRA, Temporalist
MONIKA JIANG, Community Builder
VALERIA ADANI, Projects by IF
“This is the realm of friction: Unexpected alliances arise, remaking global possibilities.”
(Anna Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection.)
11.45 - 12.00
BREAK
12.00 - 12.55
Keynote: Experiencing Systems
GEORGINA VOSS, Author of Systems Ultra
"In the light of increasingly complex networked technologies and phenomena such as climate change, there's been a growing rumble of calls for a new kind of systems literacy: not to treat these strange entanglements of nodes and connectors as definable things but to create a fundamentally different way to know them."
13.00 - 14.00
LUNCH
14.15 - 15.15
Entangled and enmeshed: Networked Environments
“Study a city and neglect its sewers and power supplies (as many have), and you miss essential aspects of distributional justice and planning power. Study an information system and neglect its standards, wires, and settings, and you miss equally essential aspects of aesthetics, justice, and change.”
(Susan Leigh Star, The Ethnography of Infrastructure)
14.15 - 15.15
Structuring structures: Infrastructures of social scale
GYÖRGYI GALIK, Dark Matter Labs
SARA WATSON and EMILY BEST,
Co-Founders A People’s History of Tech
MARCO GUADARRAMA, IKEA
JENNY L BEIJAR, Our Normal
"...social order is progressively inscribed in people’s minds’ through ‘cultural products’ including systems of education, language, judgements, values, methods of classification and activities of everyday life"
(Pierre Bordieu, Distinction)
15.15 - 16.00
BREAK
16.00 - 17.00
KEYNOTE: Now What?
Performance by JOSHUA IDEHEN
SEÁN RONAYNE, Author, Ornithologist
19.00 - 22.00
The Party
Location: Far i hatten, Folkets Park.
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