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.

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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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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Artwork by Sian Fan

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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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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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