Grasping More-than-Digital Futures

A research collective for art, craft, education, culture and technology after digital and AI promises

We explore how humans make, teach, learn, sense, and imagine with technologies after the promises of seamless digital progress and artificial intelligence. Our research turns toward the cracks and frictions of the digital, asking where digital technologies become tangible, situated, and open to touch, interpretation, and transformation. As a loose research collective, we work across the intersections of technology, craft, art, and education.

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About the Collective

Grasping More-than-Digital Futures is an informal interdisciplinary research collective for scholars exploring the intersections of art, craft, sloyd, education, technology, culture, and digital transformation.

Our work engages with post-digital education, post-AI pedagogies, sustainable computing, digital craft, embodiment, feminist data sciences, critical artistic research, and more-than-digital ways of knowing and making.

Research Themes

Post-digital education and art education
Post-AI pedagogies and critical AI studies
Craft, sloyd, digital materiality, and making
Sustainable computing and ecological technologies
Embodiment, feminist data sciences, and experimental practice

Upcoming Events

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TBA Workshops, seminars, calls for papers etc. Are awaiting in the future!

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We welcome doctoral & postdoctoral researchers, university lecturers, professors, and other researchers working across art, craft, sloyd, education, technology, culture, and related fields.

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What We Are Grasping Toward

After Digital Promises

We ask what education, art, and culture become when digital tools are ordinary, uneven, material, and politically charged.

Crafted Knowledge

We treat craft, sloyd, making, touch, repair, and situated practice as serious ways of thinking with technology.

Critical Technologies

We study AI, data, platforms, infrastructures, and sustainable computing through feminist, ecological, and cultural lenses.