This session is facilitated by Elvia Vasconcelos
About this session
The digital structures we have been creating mirror, reinforce and amplify systems of oppression that exist in real life* - it’s the IRL-Digital loop of rubbish.
How can we enable conversations to talk simply about these issues, but also about our collective hopes for the future(s)?
Elvia Vasconcelos invites audiences to join her in co-creating large-scale word maps to explore the ways in which society’s inequalities are further expanding through digital structures and the ways in which to counter this through acts of resistance.
Our collective hopes: many stories, counter voices is an intervention that examines key concepts behind our technologies to make visible the underlying power structures embodied in our digital worlds. Centered on the conversations happening throughout the weekend, the map will grow and be shaped by participants in reflecting on what they find to be the most urgent issues about the internet and its impact on people and the world today.
What stories can we tell about the acts of resistance that counter oppressive digital systems? What collective stories can we tell about our hopes for healthier futures?
*nod to Virginia Eubanks ‘Automating Inequality’.