This May, the Canòdrom. The Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica , located at 165 Concepción Arenal Street in the city of Barcelona, will promote the 'Other possible technologies' cycle, where other ways of thinking, developing and building the technological future will be shared. Specifically, the 'Other possible technologies' cycle will be part of the initiatives programmed within the framework of the celebration of Barcelona as World Capital of Architecture 2026 and will have three sessions, which will allow us to travel from geopolitics to feminism, through digital sovereignty and the decolonization of technology. The first session will be on Thursday, May 14, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., and will focus on the transfeminist city and technology. Promoted by Elena Silvestrini, researcher and collaborator, and the team from the Canòdrom Technical Office, the session will revolve around how bodies transform urban planning and technology with multidisciplinary perspectives on urban space. In this sense, there will be an initial conversation with the collectives Lucha y Siesta, Descoloniza BCN Tour and FemBloc and, subsequently, a participatory laboratory to imagine other possible urban infrastructures.
The second session will then be held on Wednesday, May 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and will focus on trans-hack-feminist dialogues that aim to depatriarchalize and decolonize technology, and reclaim knowledge, from ancestral cosmologies to free programming, to build new collective imaginaries. Promoted by Guiomar Sancho Rovira, professor and researcher at the University of Girona, the Hack Fem AI collective and the Technical Office of the Canòdrom, the second session will feature two dialogues on the confrontation between ancestral intelligences and artificial intelligences and how to hack the future and feminist practices in the face of algorithmic power. Finally, the third session will be held on Thursday, May 28, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and will address the geopolitics of technology. Organized by Javier Toret, psychologist, researcher and activist specialized in technopolitics, the Technopolitics Unit of the Communication Networks & Social Change research group of the Open University of Catalonia, the Directorate of Democratic Participation and Innovation Services of the Barcelona City Council and the Technical Office of the Canòdrom, the third session will propose several participatory talks, innovative dialogues and open debates to understand how the Global South fights for its own technological sovereignty and builds its own technological infrastructures throughout the territories.
Interested people can register online through this link .