“How do we protect something we do not love and do not understand?” Seán Ronayne is the...
22:40
Dr. Katlyn Turner – Paradigms of Waste, Equity and Consumption
Katlyn Turner
Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab
Katlyn’s talk digs deep into a critical question: "How did we get here?" She challenges us to...
“Underneath the experience of loneliness is always a longing”. It is not part of our human...
22:49
John De La Parra - Decoding the Magic and Mystery of our Food
John De La Parra
Director of the Food Initiative at the Rockefeller Foundation
“As we eat food we are consuming things that we don’t even know what’s in there, because they are...
”We don’t have an energy problem, we have a matter problem.” Matt Jones (he/him) has been...
The QA from the session Planting the Seeds with Jemma Foster and John De La Parra
28:12
Jemma Foster – Listening to and Dreaming with Plants
Jemma Foster
Founder of Wild Alchemy Labs / Co-founder of Semantica
”What future will we dream when we dream with plants?” Jemma (she/her) is an artist, writer and...
16:08
Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes from Time, Trust and Wisdom
Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes
Temporality Lab
“We are the time travelers we’ve been waiting for”. Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes – Gust for short...
What connects Leonardo DiCaprio with the Grateful Dead, a 16th century Dutch diplomat, and a tech...
The QA session from Shifting Systems with Dan Shefet and Dr. Katlyn Turner
“Trust is an outcome – not something you can design for.” For many years designers and users...
The QA from session Time, Trust and Wisdom with Monika Jiang, Gustavo Noguiera de Menezes and...
51:00
Georgina Voss – How To See What's Not There
Georgina Voss
Artist & Author of Systems Ultra
Are we in control of technological megasystems, or are they in fact controlling us? By taking on...
13:36
Tony Olsson – Beyond the Threshold
Tony Olsson
Lead Product Designer at Axis Communications
“When we know who enters what, we can also adapt the situation accordingly” As a part of the...
16:33
Emily Best & Sara Watson – A People’s History of Tech Includes You
Emily Best & Sara Watson
Emily - Founder and CEO of Seed&Spark / Sara - Co-founder & Lead Curator of A People’s History of Tech
“Almost everyone has a story connected to their mobile phone. They are deeply personal and...
19:21
Györgi Gálik – Structuring Structures: Infrastructures of Social Scale
Györgi Gálik
Dark Matter Labs
This century will be defined by society’s capacity to respond to climate breakdown. It’s not...
QA from the session Entangled and Enmeshed with Andie Nordgren, Tony Olsson and Matt Jones
17:21
Andie Nordgren – Agency in Code Landscapes - The Case for Maintenance
Andie Nordgren
VP Release & Engineering Services at Unity Technologies
“Software is an interesting medium. At least in theory, once you make something and it doesn’t...
15:58
Jenny L Beijar & Marco Guadarrama – What made you feel safe at home?
Jenny L Beijar & Marco Guadarrama
Jenny L Beijar - Founder of Our Normal Association / Marco Guadarrama - Design Researcher at IKEA
Think about your childhood – what made you feel safe at home? For many of us, our childhoods were...
QA from the session Structuring Structures with Jenny L Beijar, Marco Guadarrama, Emily Best,...
“We are living in a world where we do not agree.” The spoken word artist Joshua Idehen kicks off...
Beloved The Conference moderator Johanna Koljonen opens the 2024 edition with restating the...
British artist Joshua Idehen (he/him) opens The Conference 2024 with a spoken word performance in...