DCODE Winter School 2024, Copenhagen: ‘Designing for Futures Otherwise’
29-01-2024
The 6th and last Winter School of the DCODE Network, in the last week of January 2024, was again engaging, inspiring, critical, and inquisitive. This time it took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Central question in this DCODE research is: ‘How do we responsively design for a digital society that is inclusive and sustainable?’ The Winter School was full with interesting discussions, explorations and conversations around the progress of our research on re-thinking design, of Al, of interfaces, for a new digital society.
We started with a mini doctoral consortium, where our PhDs dug deeply into the current state of their research projects with supervisors of different projects for a fresh take and an outsider perspective. We developed outlines and pitches to better share the concrete impact of the research work done to our partners, collaborators and audiences.
And, at Thursday 25 January we hosted a public symposium with the subject: ‘Designing for Futures Otherwise: From the Designerly Imaginaries to the Socio-Technical Practices of Responsible AI’. In this symposium, by two thematic panels we explored the role of designerly imaginaries and socio-technical practices in the design of Responsible AI, showcasing the findings of three years in the DCODE Marie-Curie network by presenting the artefacts of four research projects from our PhDs.
Overall we mapped the DCODE vocabulary, but up magazines, made a creative mess and kickstarted the planning of our final showcase to come in October. Stay tuned!