Who owns the commons?
In this episode we talk with Lauren Gardner about building infrastructure for open-source projects and why lessons from DIY arts spaces like Babycastles & School for Poetic Computation might hold the key to collective digital life.
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This month, Timnit Gebru joins MEDLab fellow Stephanie Abdalla to discuss AI ethics, the history of AGI, and resistance shaping alternative AI futures. Founder of Distributed AI Research Institute and co-founder of Black in AI.
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Tomorrow, March 24, from 8:30 AM to noon, MEDLab will be hosting Protocol Ecologies! All are welcome to join us at Case E330 at CU Boulder. Scan the QR code for more information.
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Thursday March 12th from 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM MEDLab will hosting From Survivor, To Researcher, To Steward, hosted by Dr KaLyn "Kay" Coghill from Blacksky Algorithms.
All are welcome to join at Case E330 on Cu Boulder's Campus! RVSP now!
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Monday March 9th at 4PM MEDLab will be hosting Wired and Unwell! A sunset talk facilitated by Jadyn Turbeville . All are welcome to join in CASE W250.
Check out our pre-read by scanning the QR code on the flyer!
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What is the future of digital capitalism?
This month we talk with Nick Srnicek about platform capitalism, automation, and the political forces shaping our digital economy asking who owns the platforms, who benefits from them, and how their future could be built differently.
What can ancient cosmologies teach the future?
This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Ytasha Womack about Afrofuturism as active world-building, how imagination, ancient cosmologies, rhythm, and storytelling shape more humane tech and the futures we’re already living.
What is the future of sacred space in a digital world?
This month on Looks Like New, MEDLab’s Stephanie Abdallah speaks with Nesrine Mansour about architecture in the age of AI, reimagining sacred spaces, authorship, bias, and the role of AI in design education and practice.
How has colonialism evolved under big tech?
In this month’s episode, MEDLab interviews Dr. Nick Couldry about the relationship between media, power, and societal structures, data colonialism, solidarities within and beyond academia, and the need to analyze emerging technologies.
What stories do our machines tell—and what do they remember?
This month we talk with artist & researcher Camila Galaz, founder of Structured Knowledge on how storytelling and experimental media reveal the hidden human histories behind our digital world.
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Event Details
When: October 8th, 4:00 PM
Where: CASE E330, University of Colorado Boulder
Organized by: MEDLab
Come hear Lia explain how seed collecting became a form of environmental and social organizing—and what we can learn from their locally-rooted approach.
What if the future of ecosystem restoration isn’t driven by big institutions—but by Indigenous women collecting seeds along Brazil’s rivers? This October, CU Boulder welcomes Lia Domingues of the Xingu Seed Network, sharing how a grassroots movement is reshaping conservation
Who will own the future of gig work? In this episode of Looks Like New, MEDlab Associate Director Júlia Martins speaks with Minsun Ji, Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, about empowering workers to reclaim control over their economic futures.