5e DCODE Summer School – Democratic Data Governance
02-06-2023
After a chilly DCODE Winter School last January in Edinburgh, the DCODE Summer School was held in Umeå from May 22 to 26. Somaya Ben Allouch and Mugdha Patil from the research group Digital Life both headed up to northern Sweden to embrace the (near) midnight sun. This was the backdrop for some exciting days of interdisciplinary design research on challenges of Democratic Data Governance at the Umeå Institute of Design.
Horizon researchproject
DCODE is a EU-funded PhD-training network of universities across Europe, including Delft, Amsterdam, Riga, Aarhus, Edinburgh, Umeå, and Copenhagen. There, we all participated in the school with lots of discussion on interactions between Design and Governance of emerging AI technologies.
Never a dull moment!
The program included training such as: working together in a day-long hackathon which resulted in some rather cool prototypes; ‘Research Rants’ (where some supervisors presented the trials and tribulations of career trajectories ); external keynotes; reflective sessions on strategies for community building; and discussion of ‘design landscapes’ based on ‘Prototeam’ group work with external non-academic partners.
There was even an interesting mini-conference for PhD researchers to present their work. It was a great opportunity for supervisors, external partners and most importantly, PhD researchers, to catch up once again. Digital Life looks forward to the next Winter School in Copenhagen!