BDFI academics Jessica Ogden, Sanja Milivojevic, Daniel Neyland and Rebecca Coleman organised a panel on the topic of Futures Work at the EASST and 4S conference which took place in Amsterdam in July.  

The panel, which attracted over 100 attendees, included presentations from international speakers on sociotechnical futures, covering topics such as AI, data, climate change, aging, literacies, dystopias and utopias. 

Fellow BDFI academic Devika Narayan co-organised a panel at the same conference, on Cloud, infrastructure and scale-making. 

Ola Michalec, Andres Dominguez Hernandez and Peter Winter, project team for the BDFI seedcorn project ‘Against Digital Fatalism’ exhibited their outputs and findings at the conference, including a short film (Unwind by Kate Colley), a VR game (Hololand by Wen Li) and digital art installation (Cozy Cloud by George Simms). 

The film ‘Unwind’ has since been announced as a finalist at Jackson Wild Film Festival in the 'Social' category.