The first annual conference of the Digital x Data Research Centre
03-04 July 2025, Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University.
FREE to all, but please book a place through Eventbrite.
Keynotes by Orit Halpern (Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures, Technische Universität Dresden) and Ezekiel Dixon-Román (Professor of Critical Race, Media, and Educational Studies, and Director of Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study, Columbia University). Further contributions from Oliver Cronk (Scott Logic), Bernard Keenan (UCL), Connal Parsley (Kent), Sol Pérez Martínez (ETH Zürich), Astrid Wynne (Techbuyer Europe) and Compiler. Organised by Geoff Cox, Ozan Kamiloglu, Kasra Kassai & Igea Troiani (LSBU).
The conference explores the coming together of infrastructure and interdisciplinary methodologies, to tease out some of the nuances of positions, to explore methods that cut across disciplinary borders, and offer new epistemic insights.
Infrastructure has emerged over the past decades as a core concern for most disciplines – concerning basic facilities such as transportation and urban design, resource supply such as water, electricity, digital technologies, knowledge and data structures – and extended to almost everything in order to situate phenomena that form part of the underlying structures of states and economies.
Attention to infrastructure helps to stress wider relational properties and how power is distributed among them, as part of the hidden substrate that binds not only includes devices and networks but also logistics, shared standards and laws. Commentators recognize that infrastructure has become a medium of information and mode of governance, operationalized through actions that determine how objects, and data about individuals, group actors and places are captured, organized, analysed and circulated.
How do different disciplinary traditions approach the concept of infrastructure, and what can we learn from the intersection(ity) of positions?
