Digital tools and artificial intelligence are changing how people learn, create, work and relate to one another. Their effects on human possibility depend on how they are designed, understood and used in particular social and cultural settings. This symposium explores how technology might support human agency, creativity, learning and the capacity to imagine alternative futures, alongside the tensions, exclusions and dependencies it can produce.
This online event will explore the relationship between technology and human possibility. We are particularly interested in how tools and AI might support human agency, creativity, collaboration, and the capacity imagine and pursue alternative futures, while also recognising the tensions, exclusions and forms of dependency they may produce.
- We invite proposals for concise 15-minute presentations addressing questions such as:
- How are AI and other technologies reshaping what people perceive as possible?
- How can technological tools strengthen, rather than diminish, human agency and creativity?
- What new possibilities (and impossibilities) are created by AI-mediated learning, work and social interaction?
- How can technologies help people engage with uncertainty, difference and alternative futures? What ethical, educational or design principles are needed to create technologies that genuinely empower people?
- What ethical, educational or design principles are needed to create technologies that genuinely empower people?
- How can Possibility Studies contribute to the critical study and development of emerging technologies?
Proposals should include:
- A presentation title
- Abstract of approximately 200 words
- Name, affiliation and a short biography
- Three to five keywords
Read more and submit here.