event
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Nov '26
until Nov 4
On Tuesday November 3 and Wednesday November 4 CoECI organises the fifth edition of the Society 5.0 Festival. With an mix of talks, hands-on workshops, interactive installations, and boundary-pushing performances, the festival brings together creatives, researchers, designers, technologists, educators, policymakers, and citizens. It’s a collective space to explore the fusion of digital and physical worlds, spark new ideas, and co-create visions of a more inclusive, sustainable, and human-centred future.
More information and tickets on the festival website >
More information and tickets on the festival website >
Theme 2026: Reimagining Autonomy
In a world shaped by platforms, data flows, apps and devices that mediate our lives, autonomy is under pressure and ready to be reimagined.
Concerns about autonomous technologies, addictive algorithms, and dependency on big tech are increasingly shaping public debate. Autonomy is often framed as the ability to think and act independently, free from external influence. But in practice, our actions are always embedded in social, technological and ecological systems.
At the Society 5.0 Festival 2026, autonomy is approached as a relational practice. Not something we possess individually, but something shaped and sustained collectively through our relationships with others, technologies, and environments. Autonomy, in this sense, is not a fixed state but an ongoing collective practice of safeguarding the personal freedom of interconnected individuals.
Creatives, researchers, educators, technologists, and citizens shaping our future, are invited to explore autonomy as a relational and situated practice. What does it mean to act autonomously in a world of intelligent systems? How can we design for autonomy while acknowledging interdependence? And what role do education, research and creative practice play in shaping these perspectives?
Through talks, workshops, installations and performances, the festival creates space to critically examine and collectively experiment with new forms of autonomy. Forms that balance control and care, resistance and responsibility.
Concerns about autonomous technologies, addictive algorithms, and dependency on big tech are increasingly shaping public debate. Autonomy is often framed as the ability to think and act independently, free from external influence. But in practice, our actions are always embedded in social, technological and ecological systems.
At the Society 5.0 Festival 2026, autonomy is approached as a relational practice. Not something we possess individually, but something shaped and sustained collectively through our relationships with others, technologies, and environments. Autonomy, in this sense, is not a fixed state but an ongoing collective practice of safeguarding the personal freedom of interconnected individuals.
Creatives, researchers, educators, technologists, and citizens shaping our future, are invited to explore autonomy as a relational and situated practice. What does it mean to act autonomously in a world of intelligent systems? How can we design for autonomy while acknowledging interdependence? And what role do education, research and creative practice play in shaping these perspectives?
Through talks, workshops, installations and performances, the festival creates space to critically examine and collectively experiment with new forms of autonomy. Forms that balance control and care, resistance and responsibility.
Free tickets
Free tickets are available for students and employees of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS/HvA), Inholland University of Applied Science, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and Mediacollege Amsterdam.
Registration with your institutional email address is required. Tickets will be checked at the event together with your work or student ID.
More information and tickets on the festival website >
Registration with your institutional email address is required. Tickets will be checked at the event together with your work or student ID.
More information and tickets on the festival website >