Event: IAM Weekend: The Quantumness of Archipelagos (March 21-23, 2019 - Barcelona)
IAM Weekend 19 is the 5th edition of IAM's annual meeting for creative thinkers and leading organisations who care about the futures of the internet(s), digital technologies and their impact in societies.
More info: IAM-internet.com/weekend
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Tickets for individuals starting at 150€, for organisations at 250€ and limited reduced price tickets for students and unemployed graduates 99€
Special 10% discount code for The Dots members (IAMLOVESTHEDOTS)
This year, the ever-expanding IAM community of thinkers, creators, strategists, designers, educators, artists, urbanists, creative technologists, activists, fiction writers, policy-makers, journalists, publishers, (and more…) will converge upon Barcelona for the fifth annual gathering of an event as unique as the goal it sets itself: to understand the internet. Or, more precisely, to explore the co-evolution of internet(s), digital technologies, and societies.
On the weekend of 21–23 March, 2019, in Barcelona, some 400 creative thinkers and leading organisations from all around the world — each in their own way at the forefront of the world’s digital consciousness — will take part in IAM’s annual event to tackle this year’s research theme: The Quantumness of Archipelagos, and its principal open question:
How can we decelerate, decolonise, and debrief the coevolution of the internet(s), digital technologies, and societies?
Photo: Designer Marina Dragzilla in IAM Weekend 18
IAM Weekend is no ordinary conference. Every year since 2015, IAM has brought together a diverse and thought-provoking selection of speakers and participants from the world over who care about the futures of the internet(s) in a bid to develop and update a proposal to design & imagine alternative tomorrows. Year after year IAM edges progressively nearer to its long-term goal for 2050: to envision planetary citizenship protocols (or networks of protocols) that allow humanity to cultivate a collective planetary consciousness.
“We can not look anymore at the internet as a virtual, remote or idealised place or space. We can not think anymore of a singular, venture capital-shaped, monopolised internet. We can not allow corporations or governments to use the internet against us. And most importantly, we can not ignore anymore the impact this has in the environment, our mental health and collective imaginations.”
- Extract from: ‘The Quantumness of Archipelagos: A proposal to design & imagine alternative tomorrows using the internet(s)’
Who can explain the internet? To think of the internet as networks of networks of people — not only feeds, platforms, servers, cables and infrastructure — is to develop the idea of the internet as collective consciousness: what else could link themes as diverse as migration, climate justice, cities, cultural innovation, arts & design education, digital/tech literacy, creative economies, strategic foresight, media & reality?
The stage is set; the weekend will go something like this. Over 2.5 days there will be six sessions broken down into key topics, each with their own sets of open questions. Among these stage sessions will be interspersed workshops, masterclasses, and unconference session for smaller group interactions, as well as creative experiments and ‘notworking’ nights (aided and abetted by the usual useful randomness of Barcelona).
Over 20 speakers and workshop hosts have been announced (with a few more tba in the upcoming days), including the finalists from the call for proposals we launched in December.
Browse the sessions, guest speakers and workshops in the event website: IAM-internet.com/weekend
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