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The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum

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2026年2月8日  19:00-21:00

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The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum

作者：Daniel Oberhaus

推荐指数：★★★★★

人工智能介入精神健康领域时暴露出一个根本问题：源于精神科学认识论缺陷的伦理风险。现代精神病学的诊断标准（DSM）在很大程度上建立在专家共识之上，而并非稳固的生物标志物基础之上。这一点在临床实践中或许可以被暂时容忍，但当这些本身就具有社会建构色彩的诊断标签，被当作客观无误的基准真相输入人工智能系统时，问题便被放大了。本书以“算法疯人院”（Algorithmic Asylum）的隐喻，指向一个更日常、也更隐蔽的伦理风险：我们的悲伤、焦虑乃至个性差异，将在大规模算法筛查中被不断压缩进病理化的框架之中，进而我们每个人都有可能被算法界定为某种特定类型的精神病患。也正因如此，真正值得警惕的，或许并非这些系统是否会偶尔出错造成误判和漏判，而是当它们以诊断和治疗为名将精神疾病操作化、制度化和自动化之后，我们是否仍然保有拒绝其判断、逃离其分类逻辑的现实可能性。

领读人

杨雨

复旦大学

青年研究员

李曈

首都医科大学

副教授

刘颖

中国科学院

助理研究员

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2026年2月15日  19:00-21:00

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人工智能政治哲学

作者：Mark Coeckelbergh

推荐指数：★★★★★

人工智能不只是一种技术，更是一种政治。《人工智能政治哲学》从当代政治哲学的具体主题切入讨论人工智能政治，包括自由、操纵、剥削和奴役；平等、公正、种族主义、性别歧视和其他形式的偏见与歧视；民主、专业知识、参与和极权主义；权力、规训、监控和自我建构；与后人类主义和超人类主义相关的动物、环境和气候变化等由此勾勒出人工智能政治哲学的思考框架。如果我们想要解决21世纪全球和地区最紧迫的这些问题，就必须在思考政治和思考技术之间建立对话，并追问：我们需要什么样的政治技术来塑造未来？

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谭泰成

北京建筑大学

讲师

李尉博

中国社会科学院

助理研究员

董屹泽

南京师范大学

博士生

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2026年2月24日  19:00-21:00

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Narrative and Technology Ethics

作者：Wessel Reijers

Mark Coeckelbergh

推荐指数：★★★★★

本书提出，技术与文本、小说和电影类似，都在“讲述故事”，并由此构建了我们在数字时代的生活世界。技术对我们生活体验的影响正不断增强：机器人技术的创新挑战着工作的本质，新兴的生物技术影响着我们的自我认知，而基于区块链的智能合约则深刻改变着人际关系。在探究这些技术的意义时，赖耶斯和科克尔伯格以保罗·利科的哲学诠释学为基础，构建了一种全新的、叙事性的技术哲学与伦理研究方法。作者带领读者踏上一段旅程：从对实践哲学的探讨出发，经由借鉴麦金太尔、海德格尔和利科思想的诠释学技术实践概念，再到瓦洛尔的美德伦理以及利科的伦理目标，最终构建出一种能够指导研究与创新领域伦理实践的方法。通过创立引人入胜的技术诠释学伦理，本书为研究者将伦理融入日常技术实践提供了一个具体框架。

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李洋

上海交通大学

博士生

杨映瑜

上海交通大学

博士生

周明妹

上海交通大学

博士生

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2026年3月1日  19:00-21:00

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A Companion to

 Applied Philosophy of AI

作者：Martin Hähnel

 Regina Müller

推荐指数：★★★★★

在人工智能加速嵌入治理、医疗、教育与法律等关键制度场域的当下，许多争论早已不再是“技术是否可行”，而是“何种社会秩序正在被重写”。该书以“应用哲学”作为方法论支点，将人工智能置于认识论、伦理学、社会政治哲学与法哲学的交叉视域中，系统梳理从知识与不透明性、偏见与认识不正义，到信任、责任缺口、基本权利、全球治理与“AI人格”等核心议题。它既追问AI如何改变我们理解自我、行动与责任的方式，也直面算法化制度对公共正当性、权力结构与民主控制的持续压力；通过多学科作者群的分工与对话，为读者提供一套可用于分析现实政策与制度设计的概念工具箱，从而把“AI伦理”从零散的规范宣言推进为可辩护、可落地的哲学论证框架。

领读人

罗菲

上海交通大学

博士生

褚星妤

上海交通大学

硕士生

邱宇姗

中国人民大学

硕士生

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刘洋 2026-02-05 17:00 江西

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In September 2025, DARIAH launched the fifth Working Groups (WG) Funding Scheme Call for the years 2026-2027. This scheme is dedicated to – and open only for – the DARIAH Working Groups, and is intended to support their activities, small-scale projects and innovative ideas to be put forward, implemented, or sustained.

In this call, which was launched in September and was closed in mid November 2025, we received 8 applications overall. The evaluation of these applications was carried out by two reviewers for each proposal, concluding to a reviewers’ meeting in which the winning proposals were agreed among the whole evaluation committee as well as the Board of Directors.

This year, DARIAH awarded 7 WGs with funding to explore innovative ideas, build up their expertise or sustain existing tools and services, dedicating an overall budget of €40.000 to the call.  

The winning projects:

• Performing Arts: Structuring Semantic Knowledge for the Digital Age – Theatralia WG 

This project builds on the previous two project phases which advanced the digital structuring of research in
the Performing Arts. The first (2021–2023) established a state-of-the-art overview and identified the need for a shared, computerized descriptive language to support digital knowledge exchange and enhance scholarly value in the field. The second phase (2024–2025) began developing such a model, resulting in two open-access tools: a Dublin Core-based descriptive model for Performing-Arts archives and a multilingual prototype thesaurus (Version 1) created with OpenTheso (an open-source vocabulary management tool).

This third phase aims to deepen this work by expanding the thesaurus and improving its accessibility. Although Version 1 comprises about one hundred curated English terms, the underlying corpus contains roughly 1,400 multilingual concepts. Phase 3 will involve reviewing, refining, and translating these concepts, with the goal of producing a configured Version 2 containing approximately 250 terms across multiple languages. In parallel, the WG will explore integrating the thesaurus into a user-friendly digital interface, potentially through collaboration with the Croatian DARIAH-HR platform tezaurus.hr, while examining how it may interoperate with the Dublin Core for Performing Arts (a metadata standard for describing cultural-heritage resources).

• Research Data Management Tools and Strategies for Language Diversity – Research Data Management + Multilingual DH WGs

This joint project aims to organise a two full-day workshop on “Research Data Management Tools and Strategies for Language Diversity”. The workshop will bring together researchers in multilingualism, data stewards and educational designers, who will create one to three textual Open Educational Resources (OERs), either as guidelines or case-studies, to be published on DARIAH-Campus. This project aims to explore how linguistically diverse, crosslingual data can be combined with datasheets, data papers, data management plan wizards and semantic artefacts, and how the latter facilitate multilingual data sharing and reuse in digital humanities communities. These OERs will also address CARE principles (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics), as well as inclusiveness and minority representation.

• Connecting the Collections: A Roadmap for Interoperable Music Linked Data – Artificial Intelligence and Music WG

“Connecting the Collections” is an intensive, Dagstuhl-style seminar designed to strategically relaunch the Artificial
Intelligence and Music (AIM) Working Group. It addresses the critical fragmentation of digital music resources where, despite AI advancements, the field remains hampered by isolated data silos and poor reuse of semantic models. To overcome these barriers, this project convenes a multidisciplinary group of leading experts from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Italy, and France for a 3-day participatory workshop dedicated to creating interoperable data ecosystems and promoting the ethical reuse of standards.

The seminar will adopt a co-creation methodology, dissecting four diverse use cases ranging from managing music
archives to large-scale audio analysis. Through structured requirement engineering sessions and roundtable discussions, participants will critically evaluate existing music ontologies and identify specific gaps in implementing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. We will move beyond speculative discussion to draft practical solutions for connecting disparate musical assets via Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web technologies.

• Workflows for feminist data-linking – Women Writers in History WG

A major issue hampering scholarship on historical women authors, publishers and readers, has been the lack of
standardized identifiers allowing researchers to manipulate and link data, thereby overcoming current digital data silos. This project will theorize and redress this data imbalance by carrying out a pilot to create standardized identifiers for 100-200 historical women who lack them, currently rendering them digitally near-invisible and unfindable.

Starting with a reflection on the current state of the datascape, the WG will identify gaps and patterns in coverage, critically testing different kinds of identifiers for usability and adaptability, and formulating a series of best practices. Collaboration with the DHwiki and BiblioData WGs will be crucial at this stage of the project. The pilot’s starting-point will be data in four databases built or managed by WG project members, RECIRC (Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700), SHEWROTE (Studying Historical Early Women’s Reception: Oeuvres, Texts, Engagements), Texts on the Move and Electronic Enlightenment, which we will comprehensively survey as a first step towards our long-term goal of linking data across datasets, creating a data ecosystem of interoperable databases focusing fully or partly on historical women authors, publishers and readers. In doing so, we will adopt a mixed approach, creating identifiers using a variety of resources, including Wikidata, the CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) Thesaurus, and VIAF. These experiences will form the basis for a white paper to be submitted to Transformations and a workflow for feminist data linking for the SSH Open Marketplace.

• BIBTRAIN, Bibliographical Data Training Materials – BiblioData WG 

The Bibliodata WG aims to create a set of training materials to help students and practitioners understand how to retrieve, process, and analyse bibliographical data for curatorial and scientific purposes, as well as how to work with specific bibliodata-related tools (such as the AVOBMAT tool for bibliodata analysis, QA Catalogue for metadata quality assessment, OpenCitations toolings, etc). With respect to the individual capacities and expertise of WG members, the materials will cover both general issues related to work with bibliographical data (such as data cleaning, data harmonisation, etc.) and more specific tasks introducing the use of particular software tools, datasets, and workflows. All materials will be made publicly available via DARIAH-Campus.

The BIBTRAIN materials will build on the previous activities of the BDWG, particularly on the findings of the Bibliodata Landscape Analysis Report and the Open Bibliodata project (DARIAH Theme 2022–2024), within which a set of six bibliodata-related workflows was developed and made publicly available via the SSH Open Marketplace. The ambition of the project is to foster and broaden the community of bibliodata curators and researchers by delivering innovative and practical training materials to the interested audience, reflecting the latest development and methodological approaches in the field.

• Bringing together initiatives on new standards and metadata for visual data – Visual Media & Interactivity WG 

The Visual Media and Interactivity DARIAH WG brings together researchers interested in the use and development of methods, tools, infrastructures, and workflows for creating, storing, archiving, annotating, and sharing visual, audiovisual, and 3D content. For the period 2026-2027, the WG is focusing on enhancing the community within DARIAH and scoping opportunities towards the adoption of common platforms, standards and formats through the organisation of a series of online meetings and four face to face workshops to map existing efforts and develop a roadmap for the community.

All researchers exploring visual media corpora in the various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, and wishing to share their methods, challenges and research outputs, are welcome to join this effort!

• Standardizing and diversifying OER workflows: Templates and best practices – #dariahTeach WG

Open Educational Resources (OER) are vital for accessible, high-quality education and central to the #dariahTeach WG. However, diverse formats and embedded external content often create barriers to reuse and interoperability. This project will organise a hands-on workshop with OER creators from across Europe to co-develop a reusable Markdown (MD) template for DARIAH-Campus. This template will enable smoother offline content creation and include best practices for migrating content from other formats.

Participants will bring case studies from their own work, ensuring the workflow meets actual needs and aligns with the EU’s new skills agenda. We will address aspects of accessibility, including multilinguality, decolonization of concepts and wording, and inclusivity for both contributors and users. We will test the integration of typical DH OER functionalities into the MD template and explore options for collaborative case studies. The template will incorporate insights from other OER formats using Markdown, such as TeachBooks, and will be informed by the #dariahTeach Social Justice Course as a model for a new design framework.

By standardizing DARIAH OER creation and conversion, we aim to:
* reduce technical hurdles for educators and researchers,
* foster collaboration across European institutions,
* and ensure that future DARIAH-Campus resources are consistent, accessible, and reusable.

This funding scheme will run from January 2026 until end of March 2027. The funded projects will be invited to present their project results during the DARIAH Annual Event 2027. Keep an eye on our news section as we will be posting more information on their development. 

La entrada Café con Sofía Rodríguez. 10 de febrero de 2026 se publicó primero en HDH - Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas.

徐惠 2026-02-04 17:05 江西

李宇明文回顾语言学贡献与成果，展望数智时代使命，提学科优化以增语言红利。

本文转载自：今日语言学

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The second UK DARIAH day was hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute (University of Edinburgh) on Friday 7 November, in collaboration with the five other UK DARIAH partners (King’s College London, University of Brighton, University of Exeter, University of Leeds and the School of Advanced Study, University of London). The event explored the futures of digital research infrastructures in the arts and humanities, with a focus on the current and potential relationships between UK and European infrastructures. It was supported by DARIAH-EU, DISKAH, and the Centre for Data, Culture & Society.

Jennifer Edmond (DARIAH Ireland/Trinity College Dublin) began the day with a keynote that drew on her personal history of engagements with DARIAH across her career to illustrate the crucial impact research infrastructures can have on individual career trajectories. As the current National Coordinator for DARIAH in Ireland, Edmond’s talk demonstrated how effective infrastructure relies on the humans who guide individuals to understand their own potential pathways into larger scale infrastructures and who act as the crucial connective tissue between local, national and international levels.

Edmond’s talk was followed by Sally Chambers’ (DARIAH/British Library) wide-ranging exploration of the different national and regional models of DARIAH membership, demonstrating the importance of adapting models to local contexts and existing national infrastructures. The CLARIAH model used in a number of countries such as Spain and Austria was highlighted, which seeks to combine the strengths of the two most significant European humanities infrastructure projects DARIAH and CLARIN (the Common Language Resources and Tools Infrastructure). 

Speakers leading UK-based digital research infrastructures presented on the aims and focus of a series of distinct yet complementary initiatives. William Nixon from Research Libraries UK (RLUK) discussed their new strategy that seeks to further the organisation’s emphasis on collaboration, open research and digital scholarship. André Piza (Turing) shared work commissioned by the AHRC-funded DataCulture project and undertaken with David Beavan (Turing), Arianna Ciula (KCL) and many others to develop a roadmap for national research software engineering capability in the arts and humanities, in recognition of the ever increasing need for greater collaboration between RSEs and humanities researchers. The final two morning presentations from Karina Rodriguez Echavarria (Brighton) and Eamonn Bell (Durham) focused on AHRC/UKRI-funded initiatives to strengthen training and community-building in relation to high performance computing in the arts and humanities. The DISKAH (Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities) fellowship programme is developing a cohort of arts and humanities researchers engaged in large-scale computational methods, while the CCP-AHC (Collaborative Computational Project for Arts, Humanities and Culture) is focused on the sustainable development and discoverability of software, pipelines and workflows for arts and humanities research.

The discussion following the morning’s presentations reflected on the diverse possible future routes to strengthening the connections between UK and European digital research infrastructures. Given the existing digital research connections between the UK and Ireland, particularly through the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association, Edmond highlighted the potential for exploring a UK-Ireland regional DARIAH coordination model with an emphasis also on strengthening collaboration across the UK’s four nations.

Over lunch, a community-led showcase featured posters and presentations on a rich variety of activities and contributions from DARIAH UK cooperating partners and beyond. These ranged from discipline-specific initiatives (e.g. a project on digital literary studies) to cross-disciplinary publication and training platforms (e.g. Journal of Open Humanities Data, RESHAPED), and from national mapping exercises of infrastructures to underpinning practices of software engineering processes and infrastructures connected to digital accessibility.

In the afternoon, David Selway spoke on behalf of the iDAH (Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities) programme at the AHRC on their current approach to digital research infrastructures. His talk demonstrated the breadth of recent investments, such as the RICHeS (Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science) programme, the Enact Practice Research Data Service and support for the work of the Software Sustainability Institute. Selway emphasised the ongoing nature of the programme and the importance of consultation with the community on its future shape and development.

The final workshop session of the day provided space for collective imaginings of future digital infrastructures. Drawing from their project on Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage, Melissa Terras and Jen Ross (Edinburgh) encouraged us to be hopeful and creative in our infrastructure discussions. Workshop participants were given the opportunity to discuss a selection of thought-provoking scenarios as prompts for reflecting on the current and future design of digital infrastructures. The workshop highlighted the diversity of potential infrastructure futures and the value of speculative design in prompting us to think beyond existing models and constraints.

In sum, the day provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on both existing digital infrastructure developments and to imagine potential futures. The day’s talks demonstrated the breadth of recent infrastructure investments in a range of digital research initiatives for the arts and humanities in the UK. From an open research perspective, the event reinforced the view that openness, interoperability, and recognition for data and software work are foundational to building sustainable and connected digital research infrastructures. At the same time, discussions throughout the day foregrounded the importance of the interconnectivity of infrastructures and of events like the DARIAH day for strengthening and forging connections. For just as we need to think beyond local institutional infrastructures in our national context, we must also be conscious of the risks of nationally siloed infrastructures and of the ways knowledge sharing and connections at the international level can further amplify the impact and reach of the UK’s digital research infrastructures.

Click to view the programme.

Authors: Naomi Wells (School of Advanced Study), Lisa Otty (University of Edinburgh), Arianna Ciula (King’s College London), Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London)

This post is republished from The Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society website.

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中体佳: “字”从遇见你：国内首家文字学博物馆开放

日前，国内首座以文字学为核心主题的专题博物馆——文字学博物馆正式于海淀树村落成开放。文字学博物馆由中国文化研究会和海淀区政府合作设立，旨在为公众搭建起跨越千年的文字文明对话平台，让古老汉字与各民族文字在新时代焕发新生机。

没有网红展馆的喧嚣，却在一字一画、一器一拓里，读懂了文字从刻痕到笔墨的生长轨迹。展馆陈设，从文字的产生、定义、体系与传承，以及文字何以重要。

推门而入便被入口处的甲骨文“名”字馆徽吸引。

该博物馆的前身为中国文化研究会于1992年主题为“汉字走向21世纪”的展览。时逢计算机实现汉字录入，人们产生了关于汉字会不会消亡的讨论。通过开设此展览与交流并得出结论：中国文字会像中华文明一样源远流长。

建国初期，汉字发展曾面临重大抉择：要不要沿用方块字，推行拉丁化是否更利于扫盲，成为各界热议焦点，苏联专家亦曾建议以拉丁化。

毛主席力排众议，明确指出“中国历史就体现在方块字里”，坚定守护汉字文脉，同时推动汉字简化，让古老方块字既承载千年历史，又适配时代需求、便利大众使用。

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What would it mean to design a digital archive that doesn’t simply preserve the past, but actively looks both backward and forward—one that helps us think differently about how the past and future speak to each other?

This question kept coming up as I began building Folkloric Futures, an Omeka-based digital archive that brings together Caribbean folklore, literature, visual art, and community storytelling. From the beginning, I knew I didn’t want to create an archive that treated folkloric figures as static artifacts or neatly categorized traditions. These stories are alive. They change depending on who tells them, where they’re told, and why they’re remembered.

Folkloric Futures started as a way to test that idea in practice.

I’m a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia, and my academic research focuses on Caribbean literature and speculative storytelling. My dissertation looks at how folkloric Caribbean figures like the soucouyant, douen, jumbie, and moko jumbie move across novels, oral traditions, and visual culture—and how those movements shape ideas about identity, belonging, and survival. But I kept asking myself a bigger question: what would it look like to take those ideas out of a dissertation and build something people could actually explore, use, and contribute to?

This project is my attempt to answer that.

Why folklore—and why speculation?

There’s a line from Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau that I return to often: “Their eyes had seen so much that they no longer distinguished between dream and reality” (from Creole Folktales). For me, that line captures what folklore does best. These stories don’t offer neat explanations of the past; they give people ways to live alongside it.

Caribbean folkloric figures are full of contradictions. The soucouyant is frightening, but also powerful—an older woman who sheds her skin and moves through the night as fire. The douen is a child spirit who lingers at the edge of the forest, both vulnerable and unsettling. The moko jumbie towers above the crowd during Carnival, part guardian, part performer. These figures carry history in ways that are felt rather than explained—through fear, humor, warning, and care.

Speculation gives me a way to work with that complexity. Instead of asking, “What is this figure?” speculation asks, “What can this figure do?” What stories does it carry? What futures does it hint at? What happens if we design an archive that allows those meanings to shift rather than settle?

Designing an archive that tells stories

At a basic level, Folkloric Futures is a digital archive built in Omeka. It brings together literary excerpts, oral histories, visual art, and creative reinterpretations of Caribbean folklore. But very quickly, I realized that the hardest part of the project wasn’t collecting materials—it was deciding how the archive should feel.

Most digital archives aim for visual consistency and neutrality. This one couldn’t. These figures don’t belong to a single mood, palette, or structure. So instead of designing one uniform template, I let each figure shape its own page.

The soucouyant’s page uses deep violets and ember-like gradients to suggest heat, night, and movement. The douen’s page is quieter, built around forest greens and shadow, echoing stories of childhood loss and ecological liminality. The moko jumbie’s page is bright and vertical, drawing on the energy of Carnival and the figure’s role as a watcher from above.

These choices aren’t just aesthetic. They’re a way of letting design do some of the storytelling work—guiding how people encounter each figure before they ever read a word.

Metadata, but make it human

Metadata turned out to be one of the most surprising parts of this project.

Folkloric figures don’t stay in one place. Their names change across islands, and their meanings shift between generations. Trying to force them into fixed categories felt like losing what mattered most about them. So instead of treating metadata as a rigid checklist, I started treating it as something closer to a set of prompts.

Instead of asking only where a figure comes from, the archive makes room for multiple origins. It doesn’t settle on a single interpretation, but allows overlapping themes and contradictions to sit side by side. In this way, metadata becomes another storytelling layer—one that reflects how folklore actually moves through the world.

Ethics as something you build in, not add later

Because Folkloric Futures works with living traditions, ethics could not be an afterthought. Early on, I wrote a project charter to guide decisions about collaboration, credit, and care.

That meant committing to a few core ideas:

• contributors are collaborators, not data sources
• artists deserve material compensation
• people should control how their stories are shared
• accessibility matters, especially for oral and low-bandwidth storytelling

These principles shape everything from submission forms to design choices. Ethics, in this project, isn’t a separate section—it’s part of the infrastructure.

Teaching as part of the archive

Folkloric Futures is also a teaching project. In Spring 2026, I’ll be running a workshop series that invites participants to experiment with archives, oral storytelling, mapping, and creative worldmaking—using both digital tools and low-tech alternatives.

The goal isn’t technical mastery—every workshop includes a low-tech version by design. It’s about helping people see archives as places where stories can be questioned and expanded. In this way, teaching feeds back into the archive, and the archive becomes something shaped by ongoing learning rather than a finished authority.

What building in public has taught me

Working on this project has changed how I think about archives. I’ve learned that design decisions are never neutral, that aesthetics shape interpretation, and that building in public requires patience, iteration, and accountability.

Most of all, it’s reinforced my belief that speculation isn’t escapism. In Caribbean storytelling, imagination is often a survival strategy—a way of carrying history forward without being trapped by it. Folkloric Futures tries to honor that by creating a digital space that doesn’t just preserve stories, but invites people to think with them.

Because an archive, at its best, doesn’t just hold the past. It helps people live with it.

​​Por Erick Mendoza Lara 

Programa de Jóvenes Investigadores en Humanidades Digitales

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