The second annual conference of the Digital x Data Research Centre, 01-02 July 2026, Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University.
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Keynote: Rizal Sebastian (THUAS). DAY 1 presentations by Meda Burghelea & Kristina Pulejkova (LSBU), Luís Cruz (TU Delft), Tenesha Caton & Daniëlle Strydom (THUAS), Annet Dekker, Ofri Cnaani & Noa Roei (University of Amsterdam), Abouzar Estebsari & Chika Udeaja (LSBU), Ozan Kamiloglu (LSBU), Kasra Kassai (LSBU), Mariana Marangoni & Shinji Toya (UAL), Daniel Tang (LSBU/Bartlett), Valerie Veatch (independent). DAY 2 presentations by Rehana Al-Soltane (Raspberry Pi Foundation), Tim Fransen, Bea Asia Taylor Searle, Adam Brown, Susie Sykes, Thomas Mills, Catherine Jenkins, Martha Shaw (all LSBU), Renée Ridgway (Visiting Research Fellow), Juliet Pierce (South Bank Colleges), and a workshop with Partnership for Young London.
How do infrastructures shape what becomes knowable? How do computational systems redefine intelligibility? What are the limits of machine-readable worlds? What critical literacies are necessary?
Infrastructure does not merely support technical, social, cultural, or ecological 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: as, for instance, what can be rendered as data, processed, and optimised – whether within an AI model or through a digital twin. As these forms of machine intelligibility become embedded in everyday infrastructures, they increasingly mediate how reality is perceived, understood, and acted upon by humans.
The interdisciplinary conference unfolds over two days exploring some of the core themes of the Digital x Data Research Centre. The first day features presentations on digital twins and green infrastructures, and a screening of Ghost in the Machine. The second day, organised in collaboration with the Building Future Communities Research Centre, turns to critical literacies, focusing on the wider socio-technical conditions that shape intelligibility, explainability and action. Link to the Open Call HERE.
Compiler will provide Hyperlocal Hotspot, a small scale alternative infrastructure in the form of a localised, offline network for sharing feedback and messages, in collaboration with Parissa Hosseinpour.
Book your free place: CONFERENCE (DAYS 1 or 2, or both) & SCREENING
