After a year of focusing on other SOFTER initiatives, we realised we were very overdue for some networking and socialising with you, our community.

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On August 5, we’re hosting the next SOFTER Social in London, to open a dialogue about community architectures and how we can build a more collaborative softer future on the internet.

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Together with Campfire Security, we'll learn the basics of ethical hacking, explore common security concepts, and solve interactive exercises using a browser-based learning platform. No previous experience is needed: just curiosity and a laptop.

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Whether you're completely new to cybersecurity or simply looking for a place to learn alongside others, this workshop is all about building confidence, asking questions, and discovering that security can be creative, collaborative, and fun.

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Just bring your laptop!

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This workshop is supported by Østerbro Lokaludvalg.

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There will be two open hacker labs in September as well which this workshop gives access to. More info coming.

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Over 3 days we will transform The Harmony in Rødvig, Denmark into a magical & soft utopia of workshops, exhibitions, talks, panels, performances, shared meals and collective imagination.

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You will enter a parallel universe where we will imagine and create the futures that we long for. It’s a space for meeting likeminded people, getting inspired by the SOFTER network, learning new skills and asking new questions. Together we explore how a softer approach to technology can create more democratic, caring and creative digital futures.  

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This year we are also relocating SOFTER Lab to the conference, softening up the programme, with more time to participate in workshops, to engage with installations, and more time for collective conversations and to connect with each other.  

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We can’t wait to welcome you to the beautiful site of The Harmony and enjoy another magical conference with you all!

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Speakers, facilitators and open calls to be announced soon.

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In a world with increasingly black-boxed technologies and rapidly growing AI models, cyberdecks feel like a safe haven, a breath of fresh air, devices that give us hope for brighter tech futures built on playfulness, participation and decentralisation.

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For more details and to apply, please read more on our blog.

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Artwork by Sian Fan

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The process culminated in a collective work, Remarkable Dreamers, a deep-sea universe that exists in the borderland between fact and fiction, between the recognisable and the foreign.

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Explore the infinite darkness and meet mysterious and mythical creatures — beings that are normally inaccessible to us humans. We know that we are incompatible by nature; we cannot survive in their world and they cannot survive in ours, and therefore we must attempt to approach each other in this digital no man's land.

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Featuring talks from Christie Morgan on Softer Digital Futures, Nadia Piet on alternative AI practices and Calum Bowden on collaborative system change. Followed by Workshops that invite collective exploration, concluding with a final reflection.

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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