Description
As part of the Digital Design Weekend 2024 in London we curated two 1hr panel discussions held in the Lydia and Manfred Gorvy, V&A Lecture Theatre and made up of both hiCraft project investigators and invited speakers. This included:Dr Ame Elliott – Designer & Researcher
Prof Vladan Joler – Artist Researcher
Neha Singh, Director – Quicksand Design Studio, Designer and Researcher
Dr Geke van Dijk – Co-director of Stby & Design Researcher,
Prof Justin Marshall – Digital Craftsperson & Researcher
Prof Andrew Prescott – Historian & Archivist
Prof Jon Rogers – Creative Technologist & Researcher
The two sessions focused on how ecological and craft thinking provide an alternative vision for a healthier internet. Using the recent call to ‘rewild’ the internet as a starting point, the first session entitled ‘Is the Internet a monoculture?’ focused on a critique of the ‘wall gardens’ cultivated by global digital platforms. The second session entitled ‘Crafting an Internet for Everyone’ explored how craft principles, like localism, provenance, and care, can inspire more humane digital experiences, and present alternative visions for a more empathetic and inclusive internet. The audience was broad and made up of students, experts and the general public across a range of 16+ ages. Short presentations provided critique of current internet culture alongside historical context and examples from other fields of practice that provided the basis for open audience discussions at the end of each session.
| Period | 21 Sept 2024 |
|---|---|
| Event title | Recrafting the Internet |
| Event type | Other |
| Location | londonShow on map |