The second annual conference of the Digital x Data Research Centre will take place at LSBU, 01-02 July 2026. Further details coming soon.
Infrastructure does not merely support technical, social, and cultural systems, it organises the conditions under which the world becomes intelligible. Intelligibility, in this sense, is not limited to human understanding but extends to infrastructural legibility: what can be rendered as data, processed, and optimised within a model in the case of AI, for example. As these forms of machine intelligibility become embedded in everyday infrastructures, they increasingly mediate how reality is perceived, understood, and acted upon by humans.
How do infrastructures shape what becomes knowable?
How do algorithmic systems redefine intelligibility?
What are the limits of machine-readable worlds?
What forms of critical literacy are necessary?
The conference unfolds over two days.
The first day features presentations on digital twins, green infrastructures, law and digitisation.
The second day, organised in collaboration with the Building Future Communities Research Centre, turns to questions of critical literacy, focusing on the wider technical conditions that shape intelligibility, explainability and action.
Details on last year’s conference DxD25: Infrastructure + Methodological Diversity can be found here.
