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Experiment overview
A series of educational tours organized in collaboration with the Polish Data Center Association and academic institutions, designed to physically reveal the material reality of the internet.
This initiative invited participants to step inside server rooms and supercomputing facilities to experience firsthand the physical infrastructure that powers our seemingly immaterial digital world.
Main objectives
The project aimed to bridge the conceptual gap between our everyday digital experiences and the massive physical infrastructure that enables them.
By making the invisible visible through guided tours of data centers and academic computing facilities, participants gained a tangible understanding of the internet’s material existence. This experiential education helped demystify technology while creating awareness of its physical footprint and resource requirements.
Achieved results
The tours successfully transformed abstract concepts of “the cloud” and “online services” into concrete, physical experiences that participants could see, hear, and feel.
By physically entering these typically restricted spaces, participants developed a more grounded understanding of digital infrastructure and its environmental implications.
Main reflection
This project revealed how effectively direct experience can transform understanding - seeing server racks, feeling the temperature-controlled environment, and hearing the constant hum of cooling systems created immediate comprehension that no amount of reading could provide.
The physical tours demonstrated that making the invisible visible is a powerful educational approach, particularly for technologies we interact with daily but rarely understand in their material form.
This embodied learning experience created a foundation for more informed conversations about digital responsibility, infrastructure requirements, and the real-world impacts of our virtual activities.