Workshop

Code as Critique: Relearning Technical Practice in the Ruins of Big Tech

Christine Lemmer-Webber & John Boy

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Location: NIAS
Korte Spinhuissteeg 3
1012 DJ Amsterdam
Room: Collaborative room (third floor)

This workshop brings together practitioner-researchers working on permacomputing, server collectives, and networks of consent to learn from one another and reflect on transformations of technical practice.

Image: Leo Lau & Digit / Wheel of Progress / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0

Participation is by personal invitation only

If you would like to receive an invitation, or know someone who should, please get in touch with John Boy.

Get in touch with John Boy

The programme is still being finalised and will be updated with further details about the sessions. You can find it here: https://www.jboy.space/nias-workshop.

The workshop will conclude with a public keynote (on Thursday 27 November, 20:00) by Christine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Her presentation titled “We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media,” will introduce the research and development work of Spritely and the joyful collective learning process the institute seeks to foster in transforming how networked systems are built. You can find more information on the keynote by Christine Lemmer-Webber on the SPUI25 website. The event is followed by drinks.

Organised with the support of: the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), and Leiden University.

The keynote is co-hosted by the Critical Infrastructure Lab and co-sponsored by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies.

Image: Leo Lau & Digit / Wheel of Progress / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0