*Sold out* The Hmm’s Data Centre Tour

Marloes de Valk is a software artist and writer in the post-despair stage of coping with the threat of global warming and being spied on by the devices surrounding her. She is a PhD researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, looking into the material and social impact of the networked image on the climate crisis, with special attention to the entanglements between greenwashing and the increasing energy and resource consumption associated with the circulation of networked images.

The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest, a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists initiated by Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting, collaborates with Varia (Nazanin Karimi and Cristina Cochior) to insert some on-the-road cloud resistance. Expect to return home from the tour with a lovely interactive souvenir that reminds you of the fact that the data centre was always already in your pocket. TITiPi Varia

Lars Ruiter is a councilor in the Dutch municipality of Hollands Kroon since 2018. He was involved in a flawed and non-transparent democratic political process of attracting over 200 hectares of hyperscale data centres to the municipality in which he is currently living. By deeper investigating the societal disadvantages and side effects on the environment, he was able—together with many others—to start a more balanced public debate about data centres on a national scale. His ultimate goal is to secure more room for political participation when considering whether or not to attract data centres.

Paul Cournet is an architect and editor in Rotterdam. He founded CLOUD, a creative agency that focuses on architecture, research, and design. Negar Sanaan Bensi is an architect, educator, and researcher. She is a lecturer at the faculty of Architecture at TU Delft and the chair of Borders and Territories. She holds a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture. Together they taught the studio DATAPOLIS at TU Delft and edited a book that carries the same name, which was published earlier this year. Link