The program includes a workshop with media artist and cultural organizer Alice Yuan Zhang (US), a talk by climate activist Selma de Montgomery (DK) and delicious homemade cake, cucumber sandwiches and tea.

The themes of the first SOFTER Sunday are technology, climate activism, community and perceptions of nature. These themes are are undeniably connected and relevant in a time where the technological development is both a part of the problem and the solution.

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Softer Summer Days are dedicated to exploring how to introduce and manifest feminist values into technology, how to embody our ways of being and practicing in the directions of digital futures and how to use-world building as a tool for gaining collective agency.

Over the course of four days we will create, debate and investigate various topics and themes surrounding art, technology, nature and beyond, through workshops, lectures and group sessions. Together with our guest teachers, we will share thoughts, feelings and knowledge - using both our bodies and minds as tools for reflection - while working on a collaborative art project that we will define together.

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We are manifesting and exploring SOFTER visions and values through our new conference format, Softer Digital Futures, where we will address the structural issues and challenges which are embedded in the current direction of art and technology.

As women working within 3D and coding, we have experienced feeling left out, not good enough, not tech bro enough, not professional enough, not worth enough - but this started changing when we met each other over the building of a computer, and eventually started SOFTER.

We are hosting this event to inspire and share knowledge with our community, but also to hopefully create a space for new friendships, alliances and collaborations.

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