The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest

“The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) is a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists initiated by Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting. We convene communities to articulate, activate and re-imagine together what computational technologies in the “public interest” might be when “public interest” is always in-the-making. We develop tools from feminisms, queer theory, computation, intersectionality, anti-coloniality, disability studies, historical materialism and artistic practice to generate currently inexistent vocabularies, imaginaries and methodologies. TITiPI functions as an infrastructure to establish new ways in which socio-technical practices and technologies might support the public interest." (from website Titipi n.d.)

One of TITiPI’s current project, “The Social Life of XG (SoLiXG)”, addresses the relations between ‘material infrastructures of “XG”’ (‘XG’ as the ever-augmenting standard and ‘changing nature of today’s technology’, 5G, 6G, 7G, …) and local environments, as well as how the infrastructural imaginaries are shaped, and the place for contestations and negotiations in front of those new infrastructures. (“Solixg  the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest” n.d.)