Taking place from March to May 2025, this program invites journalists, researchers, artists, scientists, and activists to collaboratively investigate the environmental impact of tech industries on water access.
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TBA21–Academy's Ocean Archive project, in collaboration with Tactical Tech’s “Exposing the Invisible” project and artist-researcher Federico Pérez Villoro, invites applications for “WEBS of WATER”, an online activation series exploring the relationship between technology infrastructures, freshwater scarcity and water distribution issues in the Caribbean.
Taking place from March to May 2025, this program invites journalists, researchers, artists, scientists, and activists to collaboratively investigate the environmental impact of tech industries on water access. Participants will analyze the physical and geopolitical dimensions of computing infrastructures through workshops and collective mapping. The series will culminate in the creation of public knowledge resources hosted on Ocean-Archive.org, inspiring further research and action.
What?
- Five workshops and skill-sharing sessions (2 hours 20 minutes each) focusing on the impact of tech infrastructure development on water distribution in the Caribbean.
Who?
- We are looking for practitioners who already have experience in journalistic and citizen investigations, cartography, data science, hydrology, geology, artistic interventions around water access, evidence-based campaigning.
- Successful participants will have knowledge of the area and be based in or working on related topics.
Why?
- To create a network, a collaborative space and a knowledge resource that socializes the group’s findings and methodology.
Where?
- Online. Session links will be provided to participants before the start of the series.
When?
- March 18, 2025
- April 1, 2025
- April 15, 2025
- April 29, 2025
- May 13, 2025
Time: 11am-1:20pm CST (Mexico City), 12pm-2:20pm EST (Kingston), 1pm-3:20pm (Santo Domingo), 6pm-8:20pm CET.
Apply
- Application deadline: February 5, 2025.
- Selected participants will be informed by: 3 March 2025
Facilitators
- Federico Pérez Villoro (Ocean-Archive.org Digital Resident)
- Laura Ranca (Tactical Tech / Exposing the Invisible)
- Aleksandra Czerniak (TBA21–Academy)
Costs
- Free to attend, no stipends for participation will be provided for selected participants.