- A meeting on alternatives at the intersections of artistic research, education and technology.
Friday 21 November, 2025, 10.30 – 17.30, Linnaeus University/Hofs Lifs, Växjö
Location: Hofs Lifs, Kungsgatan 29c-31 Växjö.
Against the background of the dependency on extractive technological tools and infrastructures in art, design and education, this workshop gathers a number of artists and researchers at the forefront of imagining and building alternatives that materially manifest sustainable, small- and - human scale technological worlds. Bringing together areas such as degrowth, open-source publishing and EduTech alternatives, the workshop takes an intersectional approach to technology, which is not seen as simply a tool, but as a force of transformation with ethical, aesthetic and epistemological implications. By asking how intersectional artistic research can help envision more just and equitable futures, it is also aligned with decolonizing and norm-critical movements within research, education and knowledge production. Following its title, the workshop explores the kinds of practices and infrastructures that a non-extractive art and design school could implicate, first, through
roundtables focusing on the participants’ projects, and secondly, by collectively exploring ideas and possibilities for creating a shared resource on this topic.
Programme
Preliminary Program
10.00 – 10.30 Check-in, coffee
10.30 – 11.00 Introduction to The Non-Extractive Art School by Kristoffer Gansing, Prof. Department of Design, Linnaeus University.
11.00 – 12.00 Degrowth, permacomputing aesthetics, shadow libraries and collective practice with Dušan Barok (Monoskop) and a response by Eric Snodgrass (Department of Design, LNU).
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Critical pedagogies, imaginaries and alternatives to Big Tech and Generative AI with Lucas Cone & Magda Pischetola (Critical Tech Studies Collective, Copenhagen University) and a response by Zeenath Hasan (Department of Design, LNU).
14.00 – 14.45 Afternoon tea (& coffee) with pre-launch of “Sit-In!”: a tech strike tool developed in collaboration between former Facebook content moderators and Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter (Goldsmiths).
14.45 – 15.45 Experimental and computational publishing, feminist and collective servers and tools with Mara Karagianni & Winnie Soon (ERG / SLADE) and a response by Matilda Plöjel & Kristoffer Gansing (LNU).
15.45 – 17.00 Mapping & Discussion: collective documentation session of resources for Non-Extractive Art School
There is a limited amount of places for the workshop and we ask for full commitment. If you can only make it for a part of the day, please write [email protected] 