Data↔Worlds - Final Conference of the Second Funding Phase at Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

Date

Sep 28, 2026 - Sep 30, 2026

Time

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Language

en

Main Topic

Gesellschaft, Philos., Erzieh.

Other Topics

Informatik, Sprache, Literatur und Kultur, Wirtschaft, für Schüler:innen

Host

Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

Description

Keynote Lectures:
- Louise Amoore (Professor of Political Geography, Durham University)
- Manuela Naveau (Professor for Interface Cultures / Critical Data, Head of Department Interface Cultures, University of Arts Linz)
- Joanna Zylinska (Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice, King's College London)

Exhibition Opening Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026: Quadrature (Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch)
29 September 2026, 7 pm | University Gallery, Görges-Bau, TUD Dresden University of Technology

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is pleased to announce the final conference of the second funding phase “Data↔Worlds”, taking place from 28–30 September 2026 at TUD Dresden University of Technology.
Conceived as a multi-format gathering, the conference marks the culmination of the Lab's three-year funding phase under the guiding theme “Data↔Worlds: Socio-Technical and Cultural Syntheses of New Realities”. It explores the societal and planetary implications of data-driven technologies across governance, power, culture, and the environment, while asking how data might also become a site of empowerment, imagination, and more just and sustainable futures.

The conference panels explore:
Data politics — authoritarian and extractive data regimes
Datafied decision-making — governance and situated data practices
Data beliefs — the faith and mythology built around data
Data hermeneutics — how data is read, interpreted, contested
Data ecologies — data's material and environmental entanglements
Data epistemologies — truth, uncertainty, and authority in data regimes

Data↔Worlds brings together an international group of scholars, artists, and practitioners whose work has shaped our research, including many with whom we have had the chance to collaborate through the Schaufler Lab’s graduate seminars, conferences, exhibitions, videocast series, and publications. Panel speakers include Azadeh Akbari (Goethe University Frankfurt), Cassandra Ashton (independent scholar), Kat Austen (University College London), Alexandra Gilliams (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Sophia Jaworski (Capilano University), Katrin Köppert (The Humboldt University of Berlin), Paulan Korenhof (Wageningen University and Research), Frida Mannerfelt (Lund University) , Konstanze Möller-Jansen (TUD Dresden University of Technology), Ilona Nord (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg), Sabrina Pölle (University of Passau), Patricia Reed (Design Academy Eindhoven), and Alejandra Revilla Cejudo (WWF-NL).

The program opens with a keynote by Joanna Zylinska, followed by the first thematic panel sessions. The first day concludes with a keynote by Louise Amoore, while the second day brings additional panel discussions, a keynote by Manuela Naveau, and the exhibition opening with artist duo Quadrature (Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch), Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026. The conference closes with final panel sessions and a closing plenary with the Schaufler Lab speakers Orit Halpern and Moritz Ingwersen.

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden—a joint project of TUD and The Schaufler Foundation—is an interdisciplinary research environment dedicated to exploring the relationships between humans, machines, technology, and the world. Bringing together perspectives from social sciences, humanities, and the arts, the Lab is shaped by the close collaboration between the Schaufler Kolleg@TU

Dresden graduate program and the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden artist-in-residence program.
Participation is free of charge. The conference will be held in English.

Links

• Program and Registration

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