The historical emphasis of AI has been on intellect rather than feeling. This reflects a historic injustice in Western thought to the role of emotions in human life that is replicated in AI. Rather than treating emotion as that which helps machines interact and adapt to context, place, people and situations, AI has typically been conceived in terms of ratiocination, disembodied cognition and utility. (McStay, Emotional AI, 2018)
A hybrid workshop to explore wellbeing effects of digital technologies. 12pm-4pm, Thursday 15th May 2025.
Thursday 20 March 2025. Launching the Sensing Space app, a prototype for exploring wellbeing experiences of the built environment.
Wendy Chun interrogates ‘dreams of global connectivity’ and the internet as frontier space
A frenzy of online communication in Marianne Morris’s poem ‘Who Not to Speak To’
An online workshop on digital wellbeing co-organised by the Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network and theme leads in Imagining Wellbeing in the Centre for Urban Wellbeing.
Read More about Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop
Saturday 7th September 2024. A community arts workshop for Heritage Open Days in Redditch, UK.
Friday 28th June 2024. Creating zines from the world around you at Birmingham Settlement’s Neighbourhood Futures Festival.
The main image on our home page is a detail from the “Birmingham Bifröst”, a street art installation in central Birmingham created by Birmingham graffiti artist Gent48.
You can visit it under the Ringway Centre on Smallbrook Queensway – although this building is slated to be demolished following a Birmingham Council vote.
Find out more about Gent48’s work here.
Tuesday 19th February 2024.
This workshop is the first in a series focusing on diverse experiences of built sensory environments based at University of Birmingham, co-led by the Neurodiversity Staff Network and Imagining Wellbeing.
