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WHAT: Research Rendezvous - 1st community session of the Slow AI project

WHO: Hosted by Nadia Piet, supported by co-hosts Dominika Cupkova, Ploipailin Flynn, Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes, Andres Colmenares, Fred Wordie, Amritha Warrier

WHEN: 25/01/2024

🍦 Invites + Intent

To kick-off the Slow AI research stream, we hosted our first community session to begin seeding and sensing alternative AI narratives.

Seeding Alternative Narratives of AI // AIxD Community Session Research Rendezvous · Luma

Overwhelmed by the # of sign-ups (a good sign), we had to rework our original plan (which anticipated like 15-20 people hehe) to accomodate more people while still supporting the same level of deep participation. We put out an open call in the community and ended up with a beautiful line-up of people to facilitate and hold the space alongside us.

Introducing our incredible co-hosts and their themes:

[https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KUTXzom7E/](https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KUTXzom7E/)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KUTXzom7E/

screenshot so links won’t work. navigate to the original intro cards on Miro where links will work

🥦 Gathering + Co-creating

In this first community session of the project:

• Nadia briefly introduced the project + research intentions
• We play with the v1 of our new pictorial discourse playground made by Marina Cardoso as a way to visually critique existing or put forth new narratives of AI
• We moved across breakout rooms, each with their own theme and respective co-host, to think out loud and share thoughts, questions, references, associations, ideas that come up for us
• Download, reflect, and vote on which theme(s) feel most fertile & meaningful for us to explore further in the research

We loved how rich the discussion was, how beautifully chaotic the Miro board, and the plenty provocations and questions we surfaced together 🪁 A pretty packed program for 1,5 hr, we easily - in the words of Alja - could have done this all day.

[https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN4S9r4Q=/?share_link_id=399973769246](https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN4S9r4Q=/?share_link_id=399973769246)

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN4S9r4Q=/?share_link_id=399973769246

Putting our feelers out across an initial six potential themes, our objective for this session was to collectively sense which directions felt most potent. After much deliberation while roaming around the board, and taking account the votes we casted at the end of the session, we’ve made our (difficult!) selection on what to move forward with.

The counter narratives we’ll be exploring within the Slow AI stream are: