CODE[D] MIXTAPE

“Code[d] Mixtape,” is a monthly virtual gathering where we bring together a diverse group of artists, technologists and scholars to explore the current, and sometimes unexpected, convergence of the technocultural world across disciplines. The mixtape will be arranged around five sessions; Visible, Audible, Liveable, Sustainable and Emerging [V.A.L.S.E] Futures. Imagining a possible future without centralised, sometimes destructive systems, but with lightweight, distributed, sustainable and co-creative order, that disregard the top down hierarchical models of society, which are often times with inbuilt processor for inequalities. 

The progress of civic society can only move as fast and steady as our ability to trust one another, what we’ve experienced with the design of social media platforms is ironically doing contrary to the principles of a connected world that was its driving ethos. Technology as we have noticed can bring great wealth, but oftentimes, not shared prosperity, therefore, since technology isn’t neutral, and data…