Lectures & Talks

Education Stage

The Education Stage is all about education, knowledge transfer and social participation.

Artistic Exploration of XR Shared Hybrid Spaces

Patrick Berger (AT), Leon Butler (IE), Susanne Kiesenhofer (AT), Peter Power (IE), Anna Weiss (DE/AT), Cyntha Wieringa (NL)

This panel discussion brings together artists who have collaborated within the EU XR project SHARESPACE. Each of them has developed projects exploring collaboration between humans and avatars in shared hybrid spaces. The conversation will center on XR art and the artistic concepts behind their work.

Good Enough Ethics in XR Shared Spaces

Kathleen Richardson (GB), Kathleen Bryson (GB)

Explore the latest results from our Good Enough Ethics (GEE) study, where SHARESPACE researchers tackle real-world AI and XR dilemmas using GEE values that are critical of ethical perfectionism. GEE is an new approach for ethical reasoning and emotional responsibility in emerging technology.

Future Humanity: Open Research Talk

Misako Kawata (JP), Kyoko Kunoh (JP), Nicolas Naveau (FR/AT), Takashi Nishimura (JP), Takuma Suzuki (JP)

This panel discussion explores creative questions about Future Humanity with experts and invites visitors into the process of ongoing research.

Inside Futurelab: Overlapping Realities of Machines | Humans | Birds

Lisa Canaval (AT), Peter Holzkorn (AT), Horst Hörtner (AT), Johannes Pöll (AT), Raphael Schaumburg-Lippe (AT), Anna Weiss (DE/AT)

The winners of this year’s Futurelab Ideas Expedition critically reflect on and re-negotiate the relationship between humans, machines, and non-human intelligences through speculative and technologically innovative approaches.