Reclaiming the (Female) Body: Theory of Goddesses and Sinners
Online ZoomWhat if women created the so-called Paleolithic Venus figurines as a form of self-representation? Beginning with this fascinating and refreshing theory, we will explore the first self-portraits by female artists, and we will talk about their refusal of imposed roles: when they stopped being muses and finally became artists themselves.
Reclaiming The (Female) Body: The Female Body as a Tool
Online ZoomThanks to the feminist impact of the 1960s, women started to employ their bodies to narrate the full female experience - without boundaries or censorship. Join us on this journey of discovery, emancipation, and, most importantly, reclamation of the self.
Reclaiming The (Female) Body: Contemporary Feminist Practices
Online ZoomArtwork by Mette Björnberg, Power Play (no. 1), 2017, courtesy of Galleri Magnus Karlsson. Reclaiming The (Female) Body is a series of three lectures held by art curator Michela D’Acquisto for the Future Based platform, aimed at exploring how women get represented in male-run environments. Art is one of these. We will investigate how, [...]
Cyberlocal Dreams – Workshop by Hugo Pilate
Online ZoomA collaborative session that imagine how locally-developed efforts for a sustainable and inclusive city might shape its landscape in the near future. - by Hugo Pilate Context: It is imperative that our cities become radically more sustainable and inclusive. Many entrepreneurial citizens have taken matters into their own hands and set on this path [...]
Reading Session: On Human Centered Ecology and Technosocial Networks
Online ZoomAs we live on the brink of an environmental emergency, a new. understanding of Technological ecology must be cultivated. The carbon cost of one email with an attachment of 1MB is 19 grams of CO2. It is of no exaggeration when we say that every click counts; data-led systems contribute to new ecologies while [...]
Sixty Minutes Back to the Future: Science Fiction, Technological Imaginary and the Idea of Progress
Online ZoomIn this webinar, Sofia Kaloterakis will present the research of her Master Thesis around the relation of science fiction technological imaginaries and the emergence of the cultural idea of progress. How is techno-scientific knowledge framed as an indicator of progress? By giving emphasis on the cognitive modality of estrangement she analyzes along sci-fi the [...]
Formations Rather than Forms: The We
Online ZoomExploring the choreographies of the human position Join Cindy Moorman in a guest series of Reading Sessions at Future Based. Immerse yourself in a collaborative investigation of the possibility of fluid connections in a world that often demands a definitive composition. Through philosophical and cultural texts, we investigate the movement and position of the [...]
Sixty Minutes Back to the Future: Imagination and Urban Technology, Shaping the Smart City (cancelled)
Online Zoom** This event is cancelled until further notice ** Technology is everywhere: glued to other hands, integrated into our cars, or hidden behind garbage bins in your street. These technologies change the way we are in the world and experience it. For example, an urban walk is very different if you are efficiently using [...]
On Algorithmic (In)Equality: On World Building and (Re)Defining Algorithmic Ecologies
An Algorithm is often cited as a recipe or a script. A concept that was coined in the 12th century, derived from the work of Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. At the time, an algorithm was a revolutionary concept, but after a long journey of exploring algorithms, algorithmic cultures and algorithmic platforms, the concept needs [...]
Film screening La planète sauvage
Hubert Nijmegen Nijmegen, NetherlandsFuture Based provides an introduction to the film screening 'La planète sauvage. This event will take place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and is an external organized event. Cultuur op de Campus and WIEBERT are joining forces and are organizing not one, not two, but three evenings full of culture, to celebrate that ‘it is [...]
Symbiotic Robotics ( robots as a species)
Utrechtse Boekenbar Westerkade 2, Utrecht, NetherlandsNo longer purely figures in science fiction, robots make up a progressively larger part of society due to developments in artificial intelligence. As we guide ourselves through our evolving relationships with robots assisting us in a diverse range of disciplines, such as well-being, health, and sex, we form our own ideas about what human-machine [...]
Cli-Fi Narratives -Telling you NOW
Utrechtse Boekenbar Westerkade 2, Utrecht, NetherlandsOften going beyond the standard discourse, climate fiction depicts alternative scenario’s to climate change. For example, in Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, a team of scientists explore the expanding ‘Area X’ to document its mutated flora and fauna, causing us to wonder how species will adapt to climate change. Not only confronting us with how [...]