Workshop – Artificial Regards: Envision un/desirable futures of learning with sci-fi

We are pleased to welcome Olga Kokshagina (University of Sydney) and Javier Fernandez (University of Tokyo) for a two-hour workshop exploring future imaginaries through speculative fiction. Titled “Artificial Regards: Envisioning Un/Desirable Futures of Learning with Sci-Fi,” the session is open to all and will take place on January 13 at the Learning Planet Institute.

The workshop is organized by the Research Unit Learning Transitions (UR LT).

Short description of the workshop:

Across global sci-fi and cyberpunk storytelling – from films like Blade Runner and The Matrix, to novels such as Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and The Three Body Problem, to series like Black Mirror – we see rich worlds shaped by advanced
technologies, altered identities, shifting power structures, and new forms of knowledge. These stories help us think imaginatively and critically about the future.

In this 2 hour workshop, we draw on these global sci-fi and cyberpunk motifs to explore the future of learning.

We invite participants to use the broader language of speculative fiction: artificial intelligence, augmented bodies, digital realities, enhanced cognition, post-human societies, surveillance systems, climate-technological hybrids, off-world habitats, and more.