Today, information about our lives can be packaged, transmitted, and analyzed like never before. Our social media profiles create digital twins. Big data and machine learning could someday create algorithms that understand us even more intimately than loved ones, or ourselves. As the traces of our lives are measured, tracked, and simulated to lead digital lives of their own, we ask: what will it mean to die tomorrow?
For our Dying Tomorrow workshop, swissnex San Francisco will convene experts from design, health, technology, and research to examine the emergent future of death and grieving in the digital age. Beginning with inspiration talks from experts in the field, we will embrace collaborative design exercises to imagine the creation of new rituals, technologies, and industry practices. Together, we will imagine new futures for loss and grieving, with participants developing provocative, thoughtful, and even playful concepts that could transform ideas for the end of life.
The daylong symposium ends with a public event with two expert panels and dance performances by KineTech Arts, examining the changing relationship between our bodies, our minds, and our data: from the influence of surveillance technology to our emotional manipulation by informed machines.
Program
(tentative, details TBA)
12:00pm — doors open 1:30pm — inspiration talks on death & digitization with experts 2:30pm — short break 2:45pm — design workshop begins 5:00pm — pitches 5:30pm — summary & next steps
Speakers
(Additional Speakers TBA).
Francesca Bosisio holds a PhD in health psychology and was trained in Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is currently Head of research at the Collaboratoire, the research-action unit of Lausanne University, Lecturer at the Chair of geriatric palliative care of the Lausanne University Hospital, and Senior advisor to the Canton Vaud Medical Officer. Her activities include promoting citizen science and scientific mediation in the field of genomic medicine, personalized health, human enhancement, aging, and dying. LifeCycle Series Throughout 2019, swissnex San Francisco will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to explore the questions we confront in an age of CRISPR, genetics, the datafication of DNA, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. Connecting artists and scientists, the LifeCycle series will pose challenging questions about where we want our tech to take us: not only looking at what is possible today, but how to be responsible stewards of our new health tech revolution.
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For our Dying Tomorrow workshop, swissnex San Francisco will convene experts from design, health, technology, and research to examine the emergent future of death and grieving in the digital age. Beginning with inspiration talks from experts in the field, we will embrace collaborative design exercises to imagine the creation of new rituals, technologies, and industry practices. Together, we will imagine new futures for loss and grieving, with participants developing provocative, thoughtful, and even playful concepts that could transform ideas for the end of life.
The daylong symposium ends with a public event with two expert panels and dance performances by KineTech Arts, examining the changing relationship between our bodies, our minds, and our data: from the influence of surveillance technology to our emotional manipulation by informed machines.
Program
(tentative, details TBA)
12:00pm — doors open 1:30pm — inspiration talks on death & digitization with experts 2:30pm — short break 2:45pm — design workshop begins 5:00pm — pitches 5:30pm — summary & next steps
Speakers
(Additional Speakers TBA).
Francesca Bosisio holds a PhD in health psychology and was trained in Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is currently Head of research at the Collaboratoire, the research-action unit of Lausanne University, Lecturer at the Chair of geriatric palliative care of the Lausanne University Hospital, and Senior advisor to the Canton Vaud Medical Officer. Her activities include promoting citizen science and scientific mediation in the field of genomic medicine, personalized health, human enhancement, aging, and dying. LifeCycle Series Throughout 2019, swissnex San Francisco will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to explore the questions we confront in an age of CRISPR, genetics, the datafication of DNA, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. Connecting artists and scientists, the LifeCycle series will pose challenging questions about where we want our tech to take us: not only looking at what is possible today, but how to be responsible stewards of our new health tech revolution.
Today, information about our lives can be packaged, transmitted, and analyzed like never before. Our social media profiles create digital twins. Big data and machine learning could someday create algorithms that understand us even more intimately than loved ones, or ourselves. As the traces of our lives are measured, tracked, and simulated to lead digital lives of their own, we ask: what will it mean to die tomorrow?
For our Dying Tomorrow workshop, swissnex San Francisco will convene experts from design, health, technology, and research to examine the emergent future of death and grieving in the digital age. Beginning with inspiration talks from experts in the field, we will embrace collaborative design exercises to imagine the creation of new rituals, technologies, and industry practices. Together, we will imagine new futures for loss and grieving, with participants developing provocative, thoughtful, and even playful concepts that could transform ideas for the end of life.
The daylong symposium ends with a public event with two expert panels and dance performances by KineTech Arts, examining the changing relationship between our bodies, our minds, and our data: from the influence of surveillance technology to our emotional manipulation by informed machines.
Program
(tentative, details TBA)
12:00pm — doors open 1:30pm — inspiration talks on death & digitization with experts 2:30pm — short break 2:45pm — design workshop begins 5:00pm — pitches 5:30pm — summary & next steps
Speakers
(Additional Speakers TBA).
Francesca Bosisio holds a PhD in health psychology and was trained in Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is currently Head of research at the Collaboratoire, the research-action unit of Lausanne University, Lecturer at the Chair of geriatric palliative care of the Lausanne University Hospital, and Senior advisor to the Canton Vaud Medical Officer. Her activities include promoting citizen science and scientific mediation in the field of genomic medicine, personalized health, human enhancement, aging, and dying. LifeCycle Series Throughout 2019, swissnex San Francisco will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to explore the questions we confront in an age of CRISPR, genetics, the datafication of DNA, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. Connecting artists and scientists, the LifeCycle series will pose challenging questions about where we want our tech to take us: not only looking at what is possible today, but how to be responsible stewards of our new health tech revolution.
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For our Dying Tomorrow workshop, swissnex San Francisco will convene experts from design, health, technology, and research to examine the emergent future of death and grieving in the digital age. Beginning with inspiration talks from experts in the field, we will embrace collaborative design exercises to imagine the creation of new rituals, technologies, and industry practices. Together, we will imagine new futures for loss and grieving, with participants developing provocative, thoughtful, and even playful concepts that could transform ideas for the end of life.
The daylong symposium ends with a public event with two expert panels and dance performances by KineTech Arts, examining the changing relationship between our bodies, our minds, and our data: from the influence of surveillance technology to our emotional manipulation by informed machines.
Program
(tentative, details TBA)
12:00pm — doors open 1:30pm — inspiration talks on death & digitization with experts 2:30pm — short break 2:45pm — design workshop begins 5:00pm — pitches 5:30pm — summary & next steps
Speakers
(Additional Speakers TBA).
Francesca Bosisio holds a PhD in health psychology and was trained in Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is currently Head of research at the Collaboratoire, the research-action unit of Lausanne University, Lecturer at the Chair of geriatric palliative care of the Lausanne University Hospital, and Senior advisor to the Canton Vaud Medical Officer. Her activities include promoting citizen science and scientific mediation in the field of genomic medicine, personalized health, human enhancement, aging, and dying. LifeCycle Series Throughout 2019, swissnex San Francisco will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to explore the questions we confront in an age of CRISPR, genetics, the datafication of DNA, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. Connecting artists and scientists, the LifeCycle series will pose challenging questions about where we want our tech to take us: not only looking at what is possible today, but how to be responsible stewards of our new health tech revolution.
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