Formats currently available, planned, or in testing phases.
Each workshop is an invitation into this space of playful subversion, participatory inquiry, and collective unlearning. Less screen time, more time walking around, making together, noticing things, and relating to each other. This is not about learning software. It is about approaching AI literacy otherwise: through making, questioning, noticing, and being together.
An embodied mapping workshop tracing unofficial routes, shared memories, frictions, and collective desires that official maps leave out.
JUST DROPPEDRedaction poetry workshop reclaiming privacy policies as material for close reading, refusal, and collective poem-making.
JUST DROPPEDPlayfully subverting big tech's algorithmic imaginaries through participatory design β exploring gender bias, feminist futures, and creative emancipation.
Collage workshop creating alternative visual representations of AI. Moving beyond the blue brains and robot hands to something weirder, more human.
CAPTCHA image-making as a practice of creative refusal. What would training data look like if it was designed to confuse, mislead, or simply say no?
Collective storytelling session exploring the weird overlaps between conspiracy thinking and algorithmic recommendation systems. Bring your wildest theory.
Screenshots as personal archaeological sites. Excavate your screenshot drawer and turn private digital residue into shared material.
Feel free to reach out if you would like any of these formats at your venue. Open to festivals, universities, local communities, and institutions. Each session can be adapted to different contexts, durations, and group sizes. You can also pitch your own workshop idea β let's see what weird things we can make together.
Get in touchEach session offers a different entry point: some begin with images, others with language, some take you outside the room or your own bubble. Together, they form a counter-syllabus for relating to technology in more imaginative and nuanced ways.
The workshops span textual to visual to embodied modalities. We're making sense of technology otherwise.
Recurring online formats for reading together, drifting away from productivity, and keeping company with ideas that need more than a hot take.
Reading together, slowly and otherwise. An attempt at a book club, and an attempt to unlearn book clubs at the same time.
πͺA lightweight recurring space for collective exercises, poetic experiments, and low-pressure ways of being online together.
γ°οΈA third recurring format may appear here when the ritual calendar mutates again. Or do you have any idea we should explore together?
Temporary spaces where teams slow down, play, disagree, and collectively rethink their relationship with technologies that already shape their everyday work.
A playful facilitated AI policy workshop and digital retreat where your team collectively negotiates its relationship with artificial intelligence and turns shared values into internal AI guidelines.
Every organisation already has an AI policy. It just has not been written down yet.
For: teams, collectives, NGOs, museums, universities, cultural institutions, and organisations looking for AI policy facilitation
Includes: pre-retreat reflection exercise, 90-120 minute facilitated digital retreat, Collective AI Guidelines v0.1 document, and one feedback round
Pricing: commissioned for your team, quoted by context
Starts from: the AI conversations your team keeps postponing
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Stay in the loopA participatory walk in getting there otherwise, ending in the Atlas of Human Seeings.
Digital maps are made of streets, businesses, destinations, and official landmarks. They can calculate how to get from A to B, but that is not the only way we move through and experience the city. Someone might take the longer path, avoid a particular crossing, linger by a window, or measure the way to a friend’s house in one song.
Taken again and again, these choices become desire paths: routes worn into existence through acts of care, avoidance, necessity, and desire, but left unregistered by digital maps.
Desire paths: unofficial routes worn into existence through repeated movement
What cities are we already making through the ways we live and move in them, and what new mental desire paths can emerge when chance, attention, and the city itself are allowed to reroute us?
Research fragments for getting there otherwise
During this participatory walk, everyone receives a set of alternative navigation instructions and follows a personal route shaped by chance, attention, sounds, small encounters, and unofficial directions. Each route produces a temporary desire path of attention: a new way of noticing, moving through, and connecting existing points that digital navigation leaves untouched.
Can a desire path be seen as an exercise of democracy in its most embodied form?
Taking the less useful route
A colour, a dice roll, an animal trace, a repeated sound, or an unexpected obstacle may redirect you. You may be asked to take the less useful route, find a place that makes you slow down, or register something Google Maps cannot see.
Each participant receives their own little booklet to use during the walk and keep afterwards
Along the way, we meet at three temporary rendezvous before returning to the venue with photographs, sketches, sounds, names, and observations. Together, we practice alternative cartography by drawing, filling maps, and sharing what we actually experienced. These traces become an alternative map of the area and populate a growing Atlas of Human Seeings.
Populating the Atlas of Human Seeings with traces that official maps leave out
Laboratory for Alternative Cartography
A playful facilitated AI literacy and policy workshop where teams collectively negotiate their relationship with AI and turn shared values into internal guidelines.
People make dozens of small decisions about AI every week: writing, translating, handling sensitive information, brainstorming, or preparing grant applications. Most of these decisions happen individually, inconsistently, and sometimes with a little bit of shame on the side.
Every organisation already has an AI policy. It just hasn't been written down yet.
Collective AI Policy Lab creates space to have those conversations and turns them into the first draft of your own internal AI guidelines.
Imagine something between a team retreat, a collective art experiment, and a conversation. A chance to retreat from everyday routines, slow down, play, and collectively rethink the technologies already shaping your work.
Digital Retreats: somewhere between a team retreat, an art experiment, and a conversation
We are unlearning the idea that AI literacy means learning software, that policy has to arrive from the top, and that automation should be the default answer. Instead, we treat AI guidelines as something negotiated collectively through situated practice.
Collective AI Policy Lab is part of the Digital Retreats series: playful facilitated experiences for teams and organisations navigating life with technology.
Interested in having a Digital Retreat with your team, collective, NGO, museum, university, or organisation?
Request this formatExcavating screenshot folders as personal archaeological sites β turning private digital residue into shared material through guided selection and digital collage.
Screenshots are personal artifacts not meant to be seen. They're taken quickly, often carelessly, without an audience in mind: saved recipes at 2am that you'll never try, NDA slides, group chat gossips, private obsessions, or just things we don't want to forget but don't yet know how to use.
Screenshots are our anti-algorithmic memory: highly biased, rather private, accidental archives of how we actually move through the internet when no one is watching.
This workshop treats screenshot folders as personal archaeological sites: messy drawers, highly subjective archives of attention formed outside algorithmic curation. Through guided selection and digital collage, participants will excavate their own screenshot drawers and through the custom made tool we explore the role screenshots play in our lives and their power to become sources of knowledge rather than clutter.
Together, we'll ask what these trinkets of the internet say about taste, memory, authorship, and refusal, and what happens when private digital residue becomes shared material.
Artwork by Ema Diehelová
Custom tool for this workshop
In this workshop, we are unlearning the authority of the feed, the illusion of neutral relevance, and the assumption that algorithms should decide what is worth seeing, saving, or remembering.
Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998
Playfully subverting big tech's algorithmic imaginaries through participatory design β exploring gender bias, feminist futures, and creative emancipation.
Workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD β GenΓ¨ve, Switzerland 2024 Β©Fabrizio Arena
Nowadays, our virtual and real lives are almost completely interconnected. The boundaries between virtual and real, online and offline, and genders became blurry. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is furiously entering the chat.
In the presence of dominant ideologies, new technologies and services do not really serve those in need, rather extending the range of exploitative practices. How can we fight against those practices and initiate social changes?
In this workshop, we aim to playfully subvert big tech's algorithmic imaginaries to ones that align with ideologies of agency and care. Through a participatory approach we explore problems that women and marginalised groups face nowadays within digital environments.
Workshop at Adaptér Budapest, Hungary 2025 Β© NovΓ‘k Doro
Workshop at Assembling Intelligence, HEAD β GenΓ¨ve, Switzerland 2024 Β© Fabrizio Arena
That technology is neutral. That algorithmic systems serve everyone equally. That gender bias in AI is a technical problem with a technical fix. We unlearn the passivity of being “users” and practice becoming active shapers of the tools and systems around us.
Workshop at National Gallery Prague, Czech republic 2024 Β© KristΓna GreΕΎΔovΓ‘
Bye to glowing blue brains and glossy white robots, hi to softer, stranger, more situated images of AI. A hands-on collage session to collectively unlearn what AI is supposed to look like.
AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025). Photo by Asia Giuliani.
Stemming from the ongoing Archival Images of AI project developed within AIxDESIGN, this workshop is an invitation to collectively unlearn what AI is supposed to look like, and to imagine otherwise. In this hands-on (and fully offline) session, we'll reduce our collective screen time and pick up scissors instead.
Using the Archival Images of AI Playbook, we'll create new, messier, more situated representations of AI shaped by lived experience, not just machine fantasies.
Workshop results by Dominika ΔupkovΓ‘.
Workshop results by Frederica Melo.
The imaginary of AI as abstract, clean, and far away — and instead see it as already here, entangled in our drawers, screens, habits, and hands. We unlearn the idea that AI is neutral or inevitable, and reclaim our agency to picture it otherwise, pixel by pixel, paper scrap by paper scrap. Also: the idea that “serious” work doesn't include glue sticks.
No upcoming sessions scheduled — get in touch to host one.
Walking, collecting, and making subversive CAPTCHAs that resist verification — turning algorithmic gatekeeping into a practice of creative refusal.
CAPTCHA is a type of security test used in computing to determine whether the user click clack clocking is human or a bot. CAPTCHAs act as gatekeepers, deciding who gets access based on specific criteria, usually visual recognition skills. This mirrors societal rules, where institutions define who is allowed to participate based on compliance with often invisible norms.
Instead of clicking through boxes to prove we’re human, what if we could invent our own tests of belonging?
CAPTCHURED is partly walking, partly making participatory workshop. Participants gather images from the surrounding environment to form personal datasets, then transform these into CAPTCHAs that resist recognition. The resulting works are invited to contribute to CAPTCHURED, a participatory artwork and growing archive of subversive puzzles that resist verification. Come walk, come make, come trouble the algorithmic gaze.
In this workshop, we are unlearning the neutrality of CAPTCHA, which reduces complex identities and ethical nuances to yes/no answers, the inevitability of algorithmic borders, and the notion that machines should define what it means to be human.
No upcoming sessions scheduled — get in touch to host one.
Conspiracies as collective storytelling — remixing, retelling, and transforming our shared paranoia into playful myth-making instead of debunking.
BYOC: Bring your own conspiracy is a participatory workshop where conspiracies are treated not only as mere misinformation but also mirrors of collective fear, folklore, and belief. They travel like rumours, mutate like myths, and reveal the hidden anxieties of a society.
Instead of debunking conspiracies, what if we looked at them as cultural myths, signals of our anxieties, and raw material for imagining otherwise?
In this workshop, conspiracies are not for proving or disproving, but for remixing, passing around, and transforming. Participants are invited to bring one conspiracy (from their uncle’s kitchen table, late night youtube feed, medieval witch rumour, or their own hunch about the neighbour’s dog). Together we’ll collect them into a living dataset, and then re-narrate through multiple formats. Conspiracies will mutate as they travel through groups, revealing how stories bend with each retelling and how machines amplify or censor collective fears. The final artefacts become a messy archive of our shared paranoia and playful myth-making.
Bring your own conspiracy. Bonus points if you lowkey believe it.
To see conspiracies not only as misinformation but as collective storytelling shaped by fear, folklore, and (machine) bias. By making and remaking them, instead of asking “is this true or a lie?”, participants learn to ask “what does this conspiracy tell us about us?” As well as the idea that conspiracies are just dangerous noise, and the assumption that machines only help us get to the “truth.” Instead, conspiracies are treated as cultural signals, myths-in-motion, and playful material for collective unlearning.
No upcoming sessions scheduled — get in touch to host one.
A collective workshop turning privacy policy language into poems through redaction, close reading, and creative refusal.
Privacy policies have become some of the most widely accepted yet least read documents of contemporary digital life: texts designed to document consent while discouraging close reading through their enormous length, linguistic complexity, and sense of inevitability.
This workshop invites participants to collectively reclaim one such document. Working directly on an oversized print of the Meta Privacy Policy, originally created for the art installation Glitch the Terms by WinPrivacy, we use redaction as both a poetic technique and a critical gesture.
Ben Grosser, redaction poetry version of Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Traditionally, redaction has been a tool of governments, courts, police forces, and corporations: a way of controlling what can be seen. Here, we reclaim it as a way of meaning-making.
John Baldessari, Untitled, 1998
Across a series of workshops, participants will redact the document until we turn the whole thing into a collection of poems. The resulting work will be published as a collective poetry zine / tiny book.
That consent is meaningful simply because you click agree. That legal documents are fixed and untouchable. That reading always means consuming rather than intervening. We approach redaction as a method for close reading, collective authorship, and refusal, transforming a document designed to govern us into a space for interpretation.
No upcoming sessions scheduled — get in touch to host one.
