This roundtable invites you into a shared space for reflecting on what it means to age alongside technology. Together, we will explore how memory, forgetting, and time shape our relationship to digital life, and how experiences of obsolescence are felt in the body, in work, and in everyday habits.

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Through guided reflection, storytelling, and discussion, participants are invited to share lived experiences, thoughts, and unfinished stories. You might recall a technology that shaped your coming of age, a skill you were encouraged to leave behind, or a moment where you felt out of sync with the pace of change.

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Join us for an afternoon of collective reflection, conversation, and story telling. No preparation is needed, and sharing is always optional. Silence, listening, and half-formed thoughts are welcome.

Using accessible AI tools, you will “vibe design” your own object — moving from feeling to image to 3D form. Through guided prompts and experimentation, you will generate and shape a design that reflects how you want to live with your device, rather than be led by it.

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The workshop is open to anyone curious about spending less time on their phone, becoming more present at home, or exploring new ways of creating with AI and 3D tools. Whether you are completely new to 3D or already familiar, this session offers a different, intuitive approach to making. 

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You will leave with a ready-to-print 3D file, and perhaps a new ritual for where your phone belongs. 

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We will provide access to the tools (Leonardo AI and Meshy AI). Please bring your own laptop.

We cannot wait to spend a long weekend with new and old friends exploring softer directions for digital futures.

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Softer Digital Futures is a conference for actions and for taking part in a larger narrative. It’s a conference for collaboration, participation, for dreaming, feeling hope and creating change.

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Ticket sales will open in May, you can sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know.

1. Another Internet Manifesto
Through playful exercises, we map the digital territories we inhabit: the software, the hardware, the invisible infrastructures that shape how we speak, see, and are seen.

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2. Weaving Webs of Wonder: An HTML Workshop
This workshop will show how to self-learn HTML, provide resources, and subtle guidance creating a simple webpage using HTML and CSS. Using the principles and ideas drafted in the manifesto as our raw material, we will build web pages, side by side.
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SOFTER was born from a longing for a community and learning space where we could see ourselves and our values reflected. Our community hosted events encourage volunteer peer-to-peer learning and the soft exchange of knowledge, ideas and skills. 

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The tutorial introduces the core components of a computer and walks through the process of selecting compatible parts and assembling the machine step by step.

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The build is designed with creatives in mind and supports workflows such as 3D rendering, motion design and video editing.

The full tutorial is available on Softer’s YouTube channel from March 23.

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In this workshop, we’ll explore our current relationship with technology, imagine what a desirable digital identity could look like, and create a symbolic avatar to guide that becoming: a seed, a talisman, a small signal from a future you.

Through reflection, guided meditation, and creative making, we’ll rethink how we want to show up online, with more softness, honesty, and care.