Gallery
Project overview
A community-oriented educational project hosted in an experimental art gallery furnished exclusively with second-hand objects, creating a spatial narrative that materially embodied the workshop’s core themes: circularity, decentralisation, and resistance to technological monoculture.
The deliberately non-corporate setting challenged dominant aesthetics of tech events while opening space for critical reflection on alternative digital infrastructures and collective technological responsibility.
Main objectives
This project was designed to expose the structural vulnerabilities of centralised technological systems by making digital infrastructure perceptible, political, and tangible.
Through a combination of critical theory and hands-on practice, the workshop explored the promises and contradictions of Web 3.0 decentralisation while engaging participants in the collective creation of conceptual prototypes and wearable artefacts made from reclaimed electronic components.
The aim was not only to introduce alternative models, but to encourage participants to question the values embedded in dominant technological systems and imagine more ethical, pluralistic digital futures.
Achieved results
The workshop generated a layered and immersive learning experience structured around four interconnected components:
☀︎ An educational lecture framing the fragility of centralised infrastructures and technological monopolies.
☀︎ A collaborative prototyping session exploring decentralised network models and speculative infrastructures.
☀︎ A social-making component during which participants created brooches from electronic waste, transforming discarded materials into symbolic objects of agency and reflection.
☀︎ The unconventional gallery environment, including the presence of a non-human participant, which intensified the experiential dimension and reinforced the project’s conceptual message.
Main reflection
This project clarified that technological monopolies are not simply the outcome of linear innovation, but the manifestation of specific value systems prioritising efficiency, control, and profit over care, diversity, and resilience.
It revealed that meaningful decentralisation cannot emerge solely through technical redesign but must be rooted in a reconfiguration of human values, relationships, and imaginaries. Ethical alternatives begin not with infrastructure alone, but with the collective willingness to challenge the myths of inevitability and reclaim agency over the systems we inhabit.