Other possible technologies

Introduction

Who decides what technology looks like? Silicon Valley says they do, but we believe there are other answers. “Other Possible Technologies” is a series of three international sessions on feminism, geopolitics, and digital sovereignty, exploring alternative ways of understanding, inhabiting, and building technology. From the body that inhabits the city to the power that codes the global future.

On May 14, 20, and 28, Barcelona will be the starting point to explore how technology defines power at every level—from bodies that transform public space to empires that code the global future.

Details

We are living through a transition: the U.S. is losing hegemony, BRICS+ are rising, and AI is redrawing power. This is the perfect moment to ask: what technologies do we want? who decides them? are there alternatives? These three sessions respond to these questions across three scales of the same struggle.

FIRST STOP | May 14: The Transfeminist City and Technology. Space. Bodies. Desires (5:00–7:30 PM)

How do trans, feminist, and queer bodies transform urbanism? A session on space, gender, and urban technology. Featuring local activists, artists, and researchers in transfeminist urbanism. The session consists of an introductory talk and a workshop/laboratory with prior registration.
Organised by: Elena Silvestrini, researcher and contributor at OT Canòdrom.

Modality: In person
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SECOND STOP | May 20: Trans-Hack-Feminist Dialogues for Alternative Technological Imaginaries (10:00 AM–2:00 PM)

Transfeminists from Abya Yala do not denounce Silicon Valley—they hack it. Drawing on ancestral cosmologies, creative engineering, and solidarity, they work to depatriarchalize and decolonize technology by building their own feminist infrastructures. A session with two dialogues to explore situated knowledges that already challenge datafication and AI from the bodies and territories of Latin America, in order to forge new collective imaginaries.
Organised by: Guiomar Sancho Rovira, lecturer and researcher at the University of Girona, Hack Fem AI and OT Canòdrom.
Modality: In person
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THIRD STOP | May 28: Geopolitics of Technology. Systemic Transition, Technological Sovereignty, and Democracy (10:00 AM–8:00 PM)

The Global South is fighting for its own technological sovereignty and against digital dependence on Silicon Valley in the struggle for global power. Experts in geopolitics, digital rights and the development of technological sovereignty analyse how alternative futures are being shaped.
Organised by: Javier Toret, psychologist, researcher and activist specialising in technopolitics; the Technopolitics Unit of the CNSC group at the TRANSIC/UOC centre, the Directorate of Participation and Democratic Innovation of Barcelona City Council and OT Canòdrom.
Modality: In person and online with simultaneous translation: Spanish-English, English-Spanish and Portuguese-English.
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