Design Justice: Queering the Map
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023 6pm - 7:30pm
Location
Virtual event. Link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the start of the event when participants register through event URL.
Details
In 2018, Lucas LaRochelle launched Queering the Map, a digital mapping project to collect and display LGBTQ+ stories and experiences worldwide. They have since created QT.bot, an Artificial Intelligence platform trained on textual and visual data from Queering the Map, that generates speculative queer and trans narratives and the environments in which they occur.
On October 18, we'll be joined by Lucas for a virtual talk in our Design Justice series, where they will discuss questions and issues related to Queering the Map and QT.bot, such as:
Why use fictional stories when discussing groups of people who have been ignored or left out of historical records?
What can AI teach us about dealing with the confusion and chaos created by traumatic events?
How can dissociation, detachment, and disconnection help us imagine new worlds?
