UCLA is hosting an Experimental Workshop on “Humane Infrastructures” March 9-10, 2020. The day and a half event brings together leading scholars, experts, artists, university administrators, politicians, and community members to consider and outline how we can build long-term human/humanities-driven capacity to collaboratively critique, imagine, design, and build civic and academic infrastructures at scale. The workshop will be both content-driven (specific research projects, ideas, practices, cases, challenges, perspectives) and high-level (strategy, policy, capacity, leadership). A central concern for Humane Infrastructures is how to mobilize humanistic/human knowledge at scale, particularly in relation to the socio-technological systems and infrastructures – including AI, search engines, urban infrastructure, supply chains, academic infrastructure, medical technology and environmental data – that play such an important role in our lives and societies.
To view more information and register to attend, please visit the event website and event flyer.
The workshop is generously supported by UCLA Humanities Division, The Office of the UCLA Vice Chancellor of Research & Creative Activities, The Institute for Digital Research and Education, The UC Humanities Research Institute, The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, and UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
