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Project overview
A series of educational study tours developed in collaboration with the Polish Data Center Association and academic institutions, designed to expose the physical reality behind the seemingly immaterial concept of the internet.
The project enabled participants to enter server rooms and high-performance computing facilities, offering direct access to the hidden infrastructures that sustain contemporary digital life. By stepping inside these usually inaccessible environments, participants confronted the material, spatial and energetic dimensions of the “cloud”.
Inside the Internet functioned as both an educational format and a critical intervention, challenging the myth of digital immateriality and reframing the internet as a tangible, resource-intensive system embedded in physical space.
Main objectives
The project sought to bridge the cognitive gap between everyday digital behaviours and the large-scale infrastructures that make them possible.
Through guided access to data centres and academic computing facilities, participants were invited to understand the internet not as an abstract interface, but as a complex ecosystem of hardware, energy systems, cooling technologies and spatial logistics.
Main reflection
Inside the Internet demonstrated the transformative power of direct encounter as an educational strategy.
By making the invisible visible, the project laid the groundwork for more responsible discourse around digital consumption, infrastructural ethics and the true material cost of our online presence, strengthening participants’ capacity to engage critically with the systems they depend on daily.