Hello everyone
So due to some travel troubles we need to be a bit creative. I will share a link for you to contribute with ideas already. for now I going to try and inspire you ! The plan is to find a spot for us on Tuesday and a post-GOSH-conference next week for those who are still around and want to work on the open science fiction futures !!! the workshop GOSH 2036: The Day After
What if we actually succeeded?
An unconference workshop on open hardware, alternative futures and the worlds we want to create.
Imagine it is 2036. We are BACK in Kathmandu for the GOSH reunion.
Ten years ago, we imagined a world where open science hardware would become ubiquitous. Where anyone, anywhere, could access, build, modify, repair and share the tools they need.
What happened? Did we succeed?
Perhaps open science became the norm. Scientific instruments are locally produced, communities share their resources, and technological knowledge has become a commons. What happened to intellectual property, the technology industry and scientific institutions?
Or perhaps we failed spectacularly. AI companies control scientific research, instruments have become proprietary black boxes, and even the right to repair has disappeared. Who gets to conduct science, and who decides what counts as knowledge?
But what if we succeeded and created entirely new problems? What happens when everybody can build anything? Who maintains our shared technological infrastructure? Who bears the environmental costs? Does openness necessarily produce equality?
The workshop
Let’s travel to 2036 and find out.
In this participatory futures workshop, we will create alternative worlds in which the ambitions of GOSH have succeeded, failed or produced surprising and unintended consequences.
Working in small groups, we will imagine everyday life in these futures. What technologies exist? Who owns them? What became possible, what disappeared, and what would we never have anticipated? Each group will create a small speculative zine documenting its world, featuring news from 2036, fictional technologies, provocative advertisements and messages to our past selves. We will then reconvene at our fictional GOSH reunion to share our stories, challenge each other’s assumptions and work backwards.
What would we need to do today to make our desirable futures possible? And what should we stop doing before it is too late?
No futures experience or artistic skills are required. Bring your imagination, your frustrations and your most ambitious ideas.
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes Format: Participatory futures workshop, collective zine-making Outcome: A collection of alternative GOSH futures, shared feelings and possible actions for today Facilitator: Freyja van den Boom, socio-legal AND artistic research project exploring alternative technological futures. www.unmannedfutures.com
