IAM Weekend is the meeting for creative thinkers and leading organisations who care about the futures of the internet(s).
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March 21-23, 2019
Barcelona
IAM Weekend is the annual event where you can discover, be inspired and interconnect with diverse perspectives on the post-technological futures of the internet(s) and everything else.
Key topics: migration, climate justice, cities, cultural innovation, arts & design education, digital/tech literacy, creative economies, strategic foresight, media & reality.
IAM Weekend in the media
“a thought-provoking, challenging and inspiring weekend that will challenge what the near future might look like if we act as individuals and collectively”
“For observers like myself, IAM Weekend served as an introduction to new ideas and previously-unquestioned questions”
“At IAM Weekend, speakers brought a critical eye to our relationship with the internet, technology and digital mediums”
Line-up:
Sessions & confirmed guests, workshops and screenings
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Session I : The Quantumness of Archipelagos
How can we decelerate, decolonise, debrief the coevolution of the internet(s), digital technologies and societies?
Renata Avila
Executive Director, Smart Citizenship Foundation
🌎 Guatemala
Carina Lopes
Head of Digital Future Society Think Tank at Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation
🌍 Barcelona
‘Black Islands’ by Taller de Casquería
Art & Architecture Collective
🌍 Madrid
Key topics: Philosophy / Post-anthropocentrism / Critical, Long-Term, Planetary Thinking
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Session II: Decolonising and Depatriarchalizing Learning
How can we embrace critical, conscious and post-binary attitudes in knowledge-sharing and consumption experiences?
Key topics: Cultural innovation / Arts & Design education / Digital, tech, media literacy
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Session III: Decelerating Ecosystems
How can we use the internet to rethink our relationship with the planet and everything else inside and around it?
‘Integration and Digital Practices: An Ethnographic Study of Young Refugees in Berlin’ by Jessica Bishopp
Filmmaker and Design Researcher
🌍 Berlin
‘Citizen/Player’ by Claudia Garza / TEC
Academic Program Director - Animation & Digital Art - Tecnológico de Monterrey
🌎 Monterrey
Key topics: Migration / Climate & Environmental justice / Cities & citizenships
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Session IV: Reloading The Futures of the Internet(s)
How can we reimagine better internet(s) moving forward and what can we learn from the last 10 years of the evolution of the internet as cultures?
Ingrid Burrington
Artist & Writer
🌎 New York
Laszlito Kovacs
VP of Creative, WeTransfer
🌍 Amsterdam
‘Grow Your Own Cloud’ by Monika Seyfried
Interaction Designer
🌍 Copenhagen
‘Grow Your Own Cloud’ by Cyrus Clarke
Designer, explorer, artist and researcher
🌍 Copenhagen
Key topics: Alternative business models / Platforms & communities / Policy, Privacy & Internet Cultures
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Session V: Browsing The Ethics of Design, Foresight & AI
How can we anticipate the long-term social impact, unexpected uses and ethical challenges of the tech we design today?
‘Artificial Neurodivergence’ by Gabriel Bianconi
Founder of Scalar Research
🌎 New York
Key topics: Digital & Social Innovation / Strategic Design & Foresight / Ethics of Automation
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Session VI: Debriefing Imaginations
How can we empower ourselves and others to redistribute power using inclusive, decolosined and plural narratives about what happens next?
‘SolarPunk and Cyber Ecology’ by Joanna Skorupska
Radicalzz.studio
🌍 Warsaw
‘Let the Blind Lead: Hacking Visual Culture’ by Daniel Sabio
Art Director/VR Musician
🌍 Berlin
Key topics: Creative Economies / The Futures of Futures / Media, perceptions & realities
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Workshops, masterclasses and special projects
Collaborative group activities between sessions to transform insights into collective action and learning
How To Use The Internet Mindfully
hosted by The Creative Independent + Are.na
The Beauty and the Ugly of AI by Sergio Albiac
Visual artist
🌍 Barcelona
'Digital Self' Workshop by Joana Mateus / Cached Collective
Designer
🌍 Lisbon
'Digital Self' Workshop by Vytas Jankauskas / Cached Collective
Designer & Researcher
🌍 Berlin
Interpolate 2: Inferential Network
by Interpolate
Research collective at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
🌍 London
‘Internet activism: more than a # campaign’ by Fiona O’Grady
Head of digital relations/Communications consultant
🌍 Berlin
‘The Doing Nothing workshop’ by Rui Quinta
Founder, With Company
🌍 Lisbon
‘The Doing Nothing workshop’ by Gabriel Jiménez Andreu
Service Designer, Flat 101
🌍 Zaragoza
Intern x IAM present The Futures of Internships
Creative experiment
🌍 Manchester / Barcelona / Internet
Strategic foresight and futures anticipation consultancy
🌍 Madrid
‘Phi: the World Game’ by Aliaksandra Smirnova / Phi Collective
Urbanist and Visual Artist
🌍 Barcelona
Screenings
‘A Collage of Realities’ curated by Jeff Hamada
BOOOOOOOM.TV
🌎 Vancouver
‘Like Me’ by Jessica Bishopp
Filmmaker
🌍 London
‘Most Dismal Swamp: A Field Guide to the Dank Enlightenment’
by Most Dismal Swamp
Experimental art platform and record label
🌍 London
‘A Space Program for Creativity’ by Fabrice Starzinskas
Creative technologist & media artist
🌍 Paris
‘Virtual Gap Year’ by IAM x Pitch Studios
Creative Studio
🌏 Melbourne
‘Birthday(s)’ by Conor Rigby & Andrew Mallinson
Visual digital designer / Artist
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Main Venue
Edifici Vèrtex
Polytechnic University of Catalonia / UPC
📍 Plaça d'Eusebi Güell, 6, 08034
What to expect?
IAM Weekend 19 is a 2,5 days & nights experience in Barcelona, for less than 400 participants including:
Perspectives
5 main stage sessions featuring 25+ talks, panels, live interviews & screeningsCollaboration
10+ Workshops, masterclasses and unconference session for smaller group interactionSerendipity
Creative experiments, not-working nights and the usual useful randomness of Barcelona
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Event Partners
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Creative Collaborators
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