Panel #1: Developing Audiovisual and Spatial Performance Systems

12:00 – 13:00

In the session Developing Audiovisual and Spatial Performance Systems, we will talk to artists and designers who are developing their own performative instruments, working together with, or between, different artistic and technical disciplines.

We will discuss learning points in developing their own soft/hardware instruments, how makers translate their research into emergent or natural patterns. What do they run into? And how do they give shape to experiences? If you want to learn more about this area, and ask the makers questions, join this session.

With Seven Orbits (Matteo Zamagni) and more TBA.

Natural Intelligence:
Towards A Fossil-Free And Fair Internet

13:00 – 14:30

The current internet has an immense carbon footprint and currently exceeds the impact of the aviation sector. It is now widely known that we need to change our travel behavior, but how do we change the internet? How could we change our digital behavior and what role do designers, developers and decision-makers play in this? 

As a follow-up to our previously organised Natural Intelligence lab, we are continuing the research and the discussion on alternative network infrastructures and a low-carbon and fair internet, based on earthly dynamics and ecological ethics. Topics will range from decolonial design literacy and permacomputing, using everyday technologies and developing low-carbon websites.

What does it mean to learn from, adapt to, and work with natural intelligence? How to imagine, articulate, practice and connect initiatives towards a fossil-free and fair internet?

In this session at FIBER Festival 2022, learnings from and beyond the lab, and ongoing individual and collective endeavors will be discussed during a roundtable in Amsterdam and remotely.

Co-emerging Economies:
Exploring Radical Perspectives On
Post-Anthropocentric Economies

15:00 – 16:15

There is an emerging global awareness that our current Neo Liberal free-market economic system is responsible for ongoing exploitation of all living beings and extraction of the earth. This threatens not only future human prosperity but may have existential consequences for all species. Celebrating the launch of the recent publication Co-Emerging Economies (published by Lecturis & Baltan Laboratories, 2022), this session will examine how we can reset our relationship with the planet by re-imagining different socio-economic possibilities. 

Reon Brand (Senior Director Foresight and Socio-cultural trends at Philips Design) elaborates on his model Co-Emerging Futures in which he maps ‘streams’ of social change transforming our world. Godelieve Spaas (Professor new economy at Avans University of Applied Science), makes the GAIA economy tangible and experienceable through the chain of exchanges that, in the current economy, remains invisible in the production of things. The lectures are followed by a roundtable conversation.

Zoöp Introduction & Walk

16:30 – 18:00

Zoöp is the title of an organisational model for cooperation between human and nonhuman life that safeguards the interests of all zoë (Greek for 'life'). The zoöp model makes the interests of nonhuman life part of organisational decision making. Co-developed by Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Het Nieuwe Instituut) and a network of artists, designers and researchers, the zoöp proposes an innovative governance model that fosters a practice of ecological regeneration, allowing humans and non-humans to work together. It is a radical model that enables any organisation to contribute to ecological regeneration. 

This session will offer a short introduction to the Zoöp and a walk through Amsterdam Noord to apply the principles of the Zoöp in the environment. For students, design professionals, programmers and everyone who is in positions of decision making about an organisation's impact on the environment.