Re-Negotiating Space

RNS #4 From Tech to Transformation  — Tools for Re-Negotiation

Digital tools and systems must become instruments of transformation through acts of decomputation that move beyond technological solutionism and promethean thinking.

What concrete instruments enable all stake-holders to re-negotiate our complex socio-eco-urban systems, and what acts of decomputation are necessary to include all participants‘ embodied and lived experience rather than further abstracting urban life?

Dialogue Partners

Denis Roio, also known as Jaromil, is a hacker-activist, cryptographer and founder of the open-source network dyne.org. He is Scientific Director of the Lugano Plan B Foundation

Kai Rosenstein, Chief Experience Officer and head of Government Relations at World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026. He is the initiator of the platform social design archive and a member of the Deutscher Werkbund Hessen.

Jurek Werth, architect and founder of social.form.de, is interested in the tension between the power and control of planners and the participation of users in design and planning processes.

Timeline

11:00–13:00, Lo-Tech Space Workshop

14:00, Doors open to the garden in Darmstadt

14:30, Tour through the exhibition

15:30, The Parliament of Tech & Transformation

16:30, Dialogue (approximately 90 minutes)

18:30, Continued conversation over drinks and food

The main language of the dialogue event is English. The supporting program is multilingual, including German. It will take place outdoors, weather permitting. Arrival by public transport is recommended. A limited number of parking spaces are available outside the park.