Online Workshops
This Flower Does Not Exist. A piece from the GAN-generated flower collection by Kerry Harrison.
About workshop registration
Please read the following information before registering for your workshop.
- Registration for the workshops opens on Thursday 1 April at 0800 and closes on Thursday 20 May 23:59 (BST, London).
- The six (6) online workshops will run on Friday 21 May, between 14:00 and 16:00. Check the Programme for an overview.
- The workshops are free to all Summit 2021 delegates on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Because places are limited, please let us or your workshop leader know if you cannot subsequently attend so we can offer your place to someone else.
- You can book one (1) workshop only. Additional registrations will be removed.
- You will need your ticket number to register.
Workshop #1: The Digital Ethics Compass
The Digital Ethics Compass is a hands-on tool that helps companies develop an ethical sensibility when they are designing digital products. It also helps companies uncover and fix ethical problems and dilemmas in their existing products. The tool is developed by Danish Design Centre in cooperation with digital strategist Peter Svarre who will be hosting this workshop.
Workshop #2: Using Drawing to Understand Technology
Participatory drawing can be a powerful way to elicit research participants’ thoughts and feelings. This workshop, led by anthropologists Laura Haapio-Kirk and Jennifer Cearns, is an opportunity to reflect on our own experiences of technology, and to think about how drawing can aid ethnographic enquiry. Drawing elicitation can help researchers ground their enquiry in the affective and interior experiences of their interlocutors.
Workshop #3: Dancing With the Trouble of AI
Inspired by Donna Haraway and ritual design, together we will embrace the magical, illogical, delightful and laughable to inspire healthier and response-able AI. We will rehearse with our bodies, rituals for anticipating, noticing, and addressing ethical tensions — to nurture a mindset of collaborative creativity and radical care. You don’t need to be able to dance, but you will need video on and space to move. Led by Dr. Malé Luján Escalante and her co-facilitators.
Workshop #4: Using Speculative Design to Shape Preferable Futures
Speculative Design allows us to explore, hybridise, borrow, and embrace the many tools available for crafting ideas through fictional worlds, cautionary tales, what-if scenarios, and thought experiments. Using tools and methods borrowed from Speculative Design, we will explore how these can help broaden the horizon and foster interdisciplinary conversations between different stakeholders on how to build, design, and deploy tech responsibly. Led by Promila Roychoudhury-Koho, Andrea Vianello, and Sanna Vainionpää.
Workshop #5: Clash of the Zuckerborg vs the Zubot
This workshop is part of a Conversational AI stream, and will follow on from a talk and a panel session on Thursday morning. Participants will help create two Conversational AI systems: one based on Mark Zuckerberg and the other on Shoshana Zuboff. On Friday, these opposing creations will engage in conversation. Led by Phil D. Hall and Rik Lander.
Workshop #6: Get Creative with Machine Learning
Machine learning isn’t just making an impact in academia and industry, it’s disrupting the creative industries too. Creatives are already using machine learning to make art, craft music, write poetry and inspire new ways of thinking. In this hands-on, exploratory workshop, creative technologist and artist Kerry Harrison will share some of her favourite machine learning creative projects and show you how you can make your own pieces using RunwayML and other available tools.