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De voertaal van de Food for Thought is Engels.
In this edition, four speakers will guide you through two inspiring projects that combine technology, heritage, and design to explore the future. Alongside their presentations, there is an interactive element where you can work with ideas, scenarios, or provocative prototypes yourself. The session ends with a short Q&A, giving you the chance to discuss the creative and ethical decisions behind their work.
Dark Tech Studio: Exploring the Shadow Sides of Technology
In the Dark Tech Studio, students investigate the shadow sides of emerging technologies with guidance from Jolijn Friederichs and Marise van Noordenne. Rather than creating functional apps, they develop provocatypes: speculative prototypes that expose ethical tensions, systemic bias, and unintended consequences. The emphasis is on critical reflection through making.
The studio emerged from the CoE CI-supported research project Tinker: Ethical TechLab and underpins the Dark Tech Method, a transferable approach for embedding ethical reflection and critical thinking in technology education. Students explore AI, data, and digital technologies through interactive and provocative prototyping, gaining hands-on experience with the ethical implications of design decisions and their impact on people, society, and technology.
Remixing Heritage: Imagining Future Sea-Level Rise
Remixing Heritage to Imagine Future Sea-Level Rise Scenarios shows how public-domain audiovisual heritage can help young people engage with long-term climate change in tangible and meaningful ways. During a four-day workshop, Communication & Multimedia Design students from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences collaborated in Utrecht and at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
The workshop translated abstract adaptation strategies into four climate fiction scenarios. One example, Fortress Holland, imagines a defensive future with thickened dikes, centralised infrastructure, and highly engineered landscapes. Students explored these scenarios through illustrated conversation cards depicting fictional everyday situations where values such as equality or more-than-human perspectives were at stake. Working in pairs, they role-played the characters via short comics and used collages from Openbeelden materials to build the worlds of their games. These exercises sparked discussions about characters, settings, narratives, and the social and ethical choices embedded in a changing climate.
Speakers
Carlo De Gaetano – Visual Methodologies Collective
Designer and researcher using audiovisual heritage and fiction to explore alternative climate futures.
Maarten Groen – Visual Methodologies Collective
Researcher and developer focusing on citizen empowerment and responsible technology use.
Jolijn Friederichs – HBO-ICT, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Critical maker, artistic researcher, and educator integrating Value Sensitive Design into technological making.
Marise van Noordenne – HBO-ICT, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Creative technologist and researcher applying speculative design methods to AI literacy and ethical reflection.
Het team
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