About IAM Weekend 19 randomness
IAM Weekend 19 — the Quantumness of Archipelagos, check it out!
IN RANDOMNESS WE TRUST
It’s not only the slogan of the most amazing conference I’ve been to but also something I personally profoundly believe.
That’s why, after coming back from Barcelona my head is full of random images, quotes and brilliant ideas from the weekend.
Here you can find a list of the inspiring speakers with some inspiring quotes I wrote down in my notebook during the conference.
As may seem out of context (and they are), just embrace the randomness and get inspired!
Official videos of the presentations will be soon released by IAM Weekend!
Session I: The Quantumness of Archipelagos
Dr. James Beacham
Particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider / CERN
What’s at the edge of the universe? Maybe there’s no edge.
We, as humans, have to overcome the fear that we are not as special as we think we are.
The safety of ignorance can’t compete with the beauty of curiosity.
Taller de Casqueria _ BLACK ISLANDS
Where are the boundaries between real and virtual?
Is virtual reality an alternative to physical colonization? Is Google Earth the new battlefield?
Dr. Francesca Ferrando
Can technology be enlightened?
The future is here, now!
Everything is possible but nothing is neutral.
By existing we are shifting the direction of our planet.
Is technology brain hacking or addiction coding?
Renata Avila _ Digital Future Society
What is happening with internet is what is happening with the planet.
Session II: Decolonising & Depatriarchising learning
Alejandro Mayoral Baños _ Indigenous Friends Association
How do we embody indigenous cultrure and create a safe space? By integrating indigenous knowledge, indigenous ways of doing, indigenous knowing and indigenous being.
Madelein Morley _ AIGA’s Eye on Design
It’s not like there is less design made by women, it’s that they get less attention than men.
Decelarating Ecosystems
Michaela Büsse _ Migrant Journal
Who is native to one place?
Claudia Garza _ Citizen/Player
What would happen if videogame designers designed the cities of the future?
How can we become better citizens through gaming?
The way you play is the way you are.
Jessica Bishopp _ Integration and Digital Practices: An Ethnographic Study of Young Refugees in Berlin
Do refugees need an “integration app” or is it positioning them as users and consumers?
Kris De Decker _ Low-Tech Magazine
Is technology always the solution? Or maybe we should look at past solutions to solve current problems.
⬆️ it’s a solar — powered website, how cool is that? 😎
Tomas Diez _ Fablab Barcelona
Reloading the future of the internet(s)
Pitch Studios _ Virtual Gap Year
Laszlito Kovacs _ Wetransfer
The past is unpredictable and the future is certain (Russian say)
Let’s bring our teen spirit. Algorithms are based on probabilities, so if we are random then they cannot predict us. The future is certain no more.
Isabel Martinez
Grow your own cloud
What will it take for humans to truly value nature?
We have to rethink the Cloud. DNA can be a storage medium. Store your data, Nature’s way.
Do you want your data to pollinate?
Xiaowei Wang _ Postcards from the end(s) of the world(s)
Browsing the ethics of design, foresight & AI
Raina Kumra _ Ethical OS
If the technology you’re building right now will some day be used in unexpected ways, how can you hope to be prepared?
Miguel Jimenez _ Future design is bullsh*t
Innovation is what happens when you switch horizon.
The future is eternal, not new.
Gabriel Bianconi _ Artificial Neurodivergence
Simone Rebaudengo _ automato.farm
Debriefing imaginations
The glad scientist
What would a VR experience for blind people look like?
Joanna Skorupska _ radicalzz studio
Most interactive presentation ever! 📱👆↔️
Machines are what we feed them.
Moshen Hazrati _ FAL project
Rasheedah Phillips
Time is the longest distance between two places.
And that’s it for IAM Weekend 2019, can’t wait to next year’s event.
The topic will be THE WEIRDNESS OF INTERDEPENDENCIES!
Keep an eye on the website!
and please, DON’T PUSH THE BLUE BUTTON! 🔵
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