A Sustainable and Just Internet for All

This year’s theme conference explores how the internet should serve our collective liberation and ecological sustainability. Branch Magazine, the recipients of the first-ever Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity, offers four panels unpacking climate justice, solarpunk, sustainable digitalization, solidarity and care as well as low-carbon design and education. Chaired by Michelle Thorne, Chris Adams, Christine Lariviere, Andres Colmenares and Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino.

Schedule

Photo showing Andres Colmenares (CO/ES), Michelle Thorne (US/DE) (Editor, Branch Magazine and Senior Program Officer, Mozilla), Renata Avila (Lawyer and activist specialising in technology and intellectual property) and Chris Adams (UK/DE) (Editor, Branch Magazine and Director, The Green Web Foundation) at the Branch Magazine Symposium at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021. Credit: tom mesic

Photo showing Impressions of the Branch Magazine Symposium at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021. Photo: tom mesic

Swirling Sulas mitigation of shock, Credit: Superflux

Swirling Sulas mitigation of shock, Credit: Superflux

Museum Fossilized Internet relentless, Credit: Nina Zimmermann

Museum Fossilized Internet Overview, Credit: Nina Zimmermann

Branch Magazine Symposium, Credit: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Branch Magazine Symposium, Credit: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

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Branch Magazine Symposium: Welcome and Opening Plenary

Hosts: Michelle Thorne (US/DE) Editor, Branch Magazine and Senior Program Officer, Mozilla, Chris Adams (UK/DE) Editor, Branch Magazine and Director, The Green Web Foundation

We are dreaming of a sustainable and just internet. How might we shift the digital world technically, politically and aesthetically? Can the internet become fossil-tree by 2030? What does a carbon-aware internet look like?

Branch Magazine Symposium: Solarpunk and Other Worlds

Host: Christine Lariviere (CA) Climate Communications; Speakers: Luiza Prado (BR), artist, writer, and researcher, Sarah Friend (CA) artist and software developer, Jay Springett (UK) strategist and writer

What kind of stories should we be telling in the context of a climate-changed world, and what role does technology and the internet play in this narrative?

Branch Magazine Symposium: Intercitizenships and the Internet(s) of Solidarity and Care

Speakers: Eliza Anyangwe (CM/UK) Storyteller and editor. Founder of The Nzinga Effect, Felipe Castelblanco (CO/US) Multidisciplinary artist, researcher and initiator of The Para-site School, Pia Mancini (IT) co-founder & CEO at Open Collective, Host: Andres Colmenares, Co-director, IAM & The Billion Seconds Institute (CO/ES)

In this panel we will discuss how words can help us shape better worlds and become thinking tools to address the ongoing crisis of imagination by cultivating a shared sense of identity and belonging to Planet Earth. We’ll explore this idea through a set of hypothetical questions around the concept of intercitizenships.

Branch Magazine Symposium: Climate Change Education and the Internet

Chair: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (UK) Low Carbon Design Institute, Panelists: David Jennings (UK) XR Academy, Anshuman Bapna (IN) Terra.do, Emma Richards (UK) The Carbon Literacy Project

This panel discussion will explore the impact of the internet on education models for climate change. From open resources, to online training and social-media powered snackable information, the internet has completely changed what universal and effective education models look like, or has it?

Branch Magazine Symposium: Closing Plenary with Q&A

Michelle Thorne (DE/US), Chris Adams (DE/UK), Christine Lariviere (CA), Andres Colmenares (CO/ES), Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (UK), Renata Ávila Pinto (GT)

What practices are emerging, and what will we take with us from today? How might the internet serve our collective liberation and ecological sustainability? What is the most elegant next step?

Credits

Branch Magazine:
Michelle Thorne (DE/US) Editor, Branch Magazine and Senior Program Officer, Mozilla
Chris Adams (DE/UK) Editor, Branch Magazine and Director, The Green Web Foundation

Panel Curators/Hosts:
Michelle Thorne (DE/US) Editor, Branch Magazine and Senior Program Officer, Mozilla
Chris Adams (DE/UK) Editor, Branch Magazine and Director, The Green Web Foundation
Andres Colmenares (CO/ES) Co-founder, IAM & The Billion Seconds Institute
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (UK) Initiator of the Low Carbon Design Institute
Christine Lariviere (CA) Climate Communications