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Barcelona: November 11-13, 2021
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Barcelona Edition: November 11-13, 2021

Day 1

Thursday, November 11

Venue: Sala d'Actes, Edifici Vèrtex
Campus Nord UPC
📍 Plaça d'Eusebi Güell, 6, 08034

🎟 Only for All-Access Ticket holders
17:00 - 18:00

Registration

Registration desk will open 1 hour before the first session starts.
18:00 - 19:30
Unconference

Welcome Session

The IAM Weekend 21 Barcelona edition will start with a playful and participatory unconference session where participants will have the chance to learn more about each other.
Day 2 - Forum Day

Friday, November 12

Venue: Auditorium, Edifici Vèrtex
Campus Nord UPC

🎟 Forum Day + All-Access Ticket holders
09:30 - 10:00

Registration

Registration desk will open 1 hour before the first session starts.
10:00 - 10:15
Opening Ceremony

Imagining Intercitizenships

Welcome keynote and opening remarks by IAM co-founders Lucy Black-Swan & Andres Colmenares
10:15 - 11:30
Session 1

Cultivating Responsible Tech for Climate Action and Justice

How can reframing the public/private dichotomy support a transition towards demonopolised, inclusive and digitally sober ecologies?

TALKS + Q&A
  • Julia Trzcińska
    Director of Communications, SDIA - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance
  • Esther Paniagua
    Independent tech journalist
TALK x ATLANTIC INSTITUTE
  • Alice Wroe
    Augmented and Virtual realities lead at Atlantic Institute
  • Tanya Charles
    Program and Impact Lead at Atlantic Institute
Introducing the Autonomous Tree
  • Krzysztof Wronski
    Designer and researcher
11:30 - 12:00
Interlude

Notworking Break

A short pause in the notworking garden where you will be able to interact with the Autonomous Tree and other life forms
12:00 - 13:30
Session 2

Designing for Energy-Aware and Alternative Economies

How can digital design mindsets shift towards the natural intelligence of solar protocols and scale up an ecological worldview?

TALK + Q&A: THE CASE FOR DEGROWTH
  • Giorgos Kallis
    Ecological economist and political ecologist. Degrowth advocate
TALK x THE FUTURE LABORATORY
  • Holly Friend on Alternet Economies
    Senior Foresight Writer, The Future Laboratory
TALKS x BRANCH MAGAZINE
  • 📹 Michelle Thorne on a fossil-free internet for 2030
    Managing Editor, Branch Magazine
  • 📹 Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella on Solar Protocol
  • Tom Jarrett on Sustainable interaction design
    Designer, Branch Magazine / Normally
13:30 - 14:30
Interlude

Lunch Break

Time for food & drinks in the notworking garden
14:30 - 16:00
Session 3

Storytelling and Reporting on the Environmental Emergency

How can transdisciplinary collaboration in science, media, design and journalism seed engaging narratives and foster solidarity while covering a transnational emergency?

TALK + Q&A
  • Caroline Sinders
    Critical designer, researcher and artist
SCREENING + VIDEO INTERVIEW
  • Anab Jain
    Co-founder and Director of Superflux
PANEL DISCUSSION
  • Sarah-Grace Mankarious
    Senior visual editor at Features, CNN Digital
  • Tamseel Hussain
    Founder and CEO of PLUC.TV
  • Fernando Prieto del Campo
    PhD in Ecology. Founder of Observatory of Sustainability
  • Anne Quito (moderator)
    Journalist and design critic. Staff reporter at Quartz
16:00 - 16:45
Interlude

Notworking Break

Time for drinks in the notworking garden before the final session of the Forum Day.
16:45 - 18:30
Session 4

Envisioning together the Next Billion Seconds

How can design mindsets, artistic languages and cultural productions address the planetary crisis of imagination to seed long-term healing?

TALKS BY
  • Liya Safina on designing for Toyota's Woven City
    Digital product and interaction designer
  • Ellen Anthoni & Khushboo Balwani on the dirty backend of co-creating bright futures stories
    Cofounders at BrusselAVenir
TOWN HALL SESSION:
CO-CREATING A DECLARATION FOR INTERCITIZENSHIPS
  • In collaboration with the Intercitizen Council of The Billion Seconds Institute
CLOSING ACT ON THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE IMAGINATION
  • Amahra Spence
    Co-founder and creative director, MAIA Group
Day 3

Saturday, November 13

Venue: Edifici Vèrtex
Campus Nord UPC

🎟 Only for All-Access Ticket holders.
Limited places. Pre-registration instructions will be sent via email to ticket holders by November 9.
09:30 - 11:30
Workshops

Round 1

Four design workshops on topics as non-human governance, experience mapping, policy design and sustainable interaction design:

11:30 - 12:00
Interlude

Notworking Break

Time for fresh air in the notworking garden before the second round of workshops.
12:00 - 14:00
Workshops

Round 2

Four workshops on topics as long-term thinking, past-casting, mental health and ethical choices:

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