This session features a series of short, provocative presentations from educators working in non-formal learning environments, showcasing how they are empowering young people to question, hack, and reshape the systems that shape their lives. The focus is on practices that foster creativity and agency while supporting critical engagement with technology. From maker projects to tech-enabled storytelling, these presentations offer concrete examples of how education can become a space for transformation, resistance, and possibility.
Photo: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
Praxis Presentations: Making Space for Change
Josh Harle (AU), Nicoletta Tranquillo (IT), Sonja Bailer (AT)
POSTCITY, First Floor, Education Stage
Fri 5. Sep 2025
16:15
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16:55
Language //
EN
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Nicoletta Tranquillo
I’m the founding partner of Kilowatt and the cultural director of Serra Madre. Although I’m an economist, I have always focused on ecology, climate change, and the environmental crisis, combining different disciplines. I have spent years supporting the creation and growth of organizations and business models with a significant social and environmental impact. Today, I’m particularly committed to promoting practices that encourage ecological thinking and imagination across art and science.
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Josh Harle
Dr. Josh Harle is a multidisciplinary researcher, educator, and media artist with a background in computer science, philosophy, and fine arts. His practice investigates diverse forms of “sense-making,” technology as cultural practice, and the expressive potential of subverting digital capture tools through hacking and repurposing. Harle hosts an ongoing experimental digital studio program, working with non-digital artists to explore uses of XR, games, and emerging technologies in their practices.
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Sonja Bailer
Sonja Bailer is part of the Education & Content Development Department at the Ars Electronica Center since 2020. Before joining the department, she studied Educational Sciences at the University of Salzburg and gained experience as a museum educator at the DomQuartier in Salzburg and as an Erasmus+ trainee at the Learning and Engagement Department at the Historic Royal Palaces in London.
