AustraliaBIO:
Angelica (She/They) is a Futurist and creative facilitator with 10 years of experience in research, strategy and co-design across the government and not-for-profit sectors. Her recent work includes working with communities to develop more equitable services and strategies for Healthdirect, the City of Melbourne, Goodstart Early Learning and, Good Things Foundation.
Angelica stands for community-led solutions that are driven by systems-thinking, longtermism and lived and living experience. She is passionate about using imagination and creativity to support communities and decision-makers to reimagine more sustainable and equitable ways of being beyond current conventions.
Angelica holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Performance Studies from the University of Sydney and is currently undertaking a Master’s of Therapeutic Arts Practice at MIECAT.
Lily is a creative and communication expert with over 10 years of experience in children’s rights, international development and community engagement.
She is passionate about social justice and community resilience and appreciating the beauty of life.
She facilitates community-led decision making and collaborative creative solutions to tackle social challenges, reimaging systems and engagement from a grassroots perspective that centres and amplifies marginalised voices. She believes that as crises impact the vulnerable the most, we have a collective responsibility to ensure community resilience and strengthen social fabric, so no one is left behind.
She holds a Bachelors in Communication and a Masters in Disaster, Design and Development.
SYNOPSIS:
Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to our existence, our ways of connecting and being in community and, our spirituality.
The Esoteric festival draws people who are committed to thought experimentation, community and social justice. This provides a container to consciously and creatively explore and reshape the future we want for artificial intelligence. This is an opportunity to participate in community-led decision-making and identify ways to grow the values embodied at Esoteric beyond the festival container in our own communities.
During the workshop we’ll run through creative activities to explore our fears and hopes for artificial intelligence. Together we’ll co-create a vision we want for our communities. The creative activities will draw on Participatory Futures* techniques to collectively unpack and reshape our relationship with artificial intelligence.
The workshop will focus on the importance of recognising First Nations ways of being and knowing and, the value of situational knowledge from marginalised communities who are strategically disadvantaged by the rise of artificial intelligence. By doing so, we seek to prioritise perspectives that are excluded from technological discourse and development.
*Participatory Futures is about recognising that the future is something that should be shaped collectively and collaboratively. It aims to democratise the process of imagining and planning for the future by including a diverse range of community perspectives and knowledge.