A research project that engages with how communities are imagining and practising their own infrastructural transformations.

9–13 September 2026
Works by members of Make/Sense PhD and MA Transversal Design at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.
The exhibition explores algorithms, interfaces and data systems as forces that influence bodies, identities, emotions and value and proposes “debugging” as a way to better understand, question and reshape the systems that define our realities.
How do digital infrastructures shape our lives? This exhibition explores algorithms, interfaces and data systems as forces that influence bodies, identities, emotions and value. Through installation, video and interactive works, it examines contemporary human–machine relations and possible futures.

Two artist-researchers from CML will visit Brazil to connect with local artists, researchers, and institutions for transdisciplinary exchanges around the energy transition, digital infrastructures, and climate imaginaries.

Thursday, 13 August 2026
Critical Media Lab / Atelier Mondial kitchen
Guillemette Legrand co-hosts a series of workshops on rethinking climate imaginaries and computational modelling practices.
A short essay on the making and unmaking of knowledge in the context of war and occupation.

The MA Transversal Design launched a new online zine that will continue to evolve into a living web journal to document and reflect on the activities and practices of the study programme.
On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region

Special issue of Brand-New-Life magazine in collaboration with the Make/Sense PhD program on academic writing as a site of struggle against attempts at formalizing imagination.
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence
