Dates: 26–27 November 2025
Location: Amsterdam
Organised with the support of: the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), and Leiden University.
Participation is by personal invitation only. If you would like to receive an invitation, or know someone who should, please get in touch.
The programme is still being finalised and will be updated with further details about the sessions. You can find it here: https://www.jboy.space/nias-workshop.
The workshop will conclude with a public keynote (on Thursday 27 November, 20:00) by Christine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Her presentation, provisionally titled “We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media,” will introduce the research and development work of Spritely and the joyful collective learning process the institute seeks to foster in transforming how networked systems are built. The event is followed by drinks.
The keynote is co-hosted by the Critical Infrastructure Lab and co-sponsored by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies.
Image: Leo Lau & Digit / Wheel of Progress / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0
