WORLDWIDE

3–5 December 2025

How can we build liveable futures through the mundane labor of infrastructural resistance? What does it mean to go back, each day, and perform resistant handicraft?

Critical Media Lab & HyperWerk invite to a three-day public programme on how we can take action together in the face of social, political and ecological crises.

Wednesday, 3 December 2025
15:00–17:00

With Elias & Yousef Anastas, co-founders of Wonder Cabinet, Radio alHara & Local Industries.

Thursday, 4 December 2025
10:00–17:00

At the one-day symposium, HyperWerk invites activist designers to engage in a dialogue about resistant praxis and strategy. In diverse practices of caring, diligent work, we seek solidarity-based, life-affirming responses to the political and ecological threats of our time.

The contributions by Carmin Karasic, Tobéchukwu Onwukeme, Border Forensics with Elio Panese and Stanislas Michel, Timon Nils Essoungou Bony Malong, Yamina Sam, and Cherry-Ann Morgan hack authoritarian institutions, document police violence, make soil-related practices audible, conduct research with local communities against ecocide, and embody ancestral knowledge in handicrafts.

Friday, 5 December 2025
11:00–13:00

With Resistant Energies (Miriyam Aouragh, Karl Moubarak, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sofia Boschat-Thorez, Femke Snelting).

Friday, 5 December 2025
15:00–17:00

Book launch of I Will Always Be Looking For You – A Queer Anthology on Arab Art with its project lead and co-editors Dayna Ash, Yasmine Rifaii & Nadim Choufi.

Tuesday, 18th November 2025
18.00–19.30 at CML (with Apéro from 17.00)

Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers and information management systems. This special issue aims to take stock of the challenges and possibilities here for University as Infrastructure.

Deadline extended to 30 September.

On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region

with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence