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

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

Whether you're a creative looking to build a portfolio, a freelancer who wants to build a website for a client or a passion project, or if you’re just curious about websites, this workshop is for you!

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The event is suitable for absolute beginners, but if you have a bit of experience and you would like to join, you are very welcome. 

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We will take you through the full process of designing, building and publishing your site. Including a quick introduction to domains and mapping. The goal is to get something live and published by the end of the second workshop.

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Tickets include 6 months of free monthly personal plan for Readymag for each participant.

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During the evening Rifke will share some of her favourite projects, talk about inspiration, her love of trinkets and how her playful perspective shapes the way she designs for the web.

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We will serve pizza and facilitate a conversation on inspiration, play and curiosity, and celebrate the quirky and poetic internet.

We are happy to help with all and any kinds of projects, but are also more than welcome to absolute beginners. If you do not have a project to bring, you can also be matched with a learning project or tutorial that fits with your interest and goals. Bring a laptop

You will get to try your hand at using the basic building blocks of programming to draw and animate with code! The event is suitable for absolute beginners, but we can also try to accommodate if you come with more experience and are looking for inspiration for the next steps in your learning. Bring a laptop.