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The Cultural Technologies Lab positions cultural technologies as fundamental mechanisms for adapting to climate change and technological, social, and political volatility. By exploring and amplifying cultural practices, we create pathways for resilience and localized action.

An Independent Initiative of UKAI Projects

Erica Whyte, The Design of Water, 2024, Intelligent Terrain, Ferme Lanthorn. Digital reproductions and essay. Photo: Antoine Simard-Legault

Culture in a volatile world

The Cultural Technologies Lab identifies, localizes, and amplifies cultural practices and technologies. We seek to document and apply vital tools for adaptation to climate volatility and its downstream impacts in technology, rising authoritarianism, and social inequality.

Founded as an independent initiative, the Lab builds on UKAI Projects’ ethos of “culture for what’s coming.”

People standing outdoors at night illuminated by glowing blue and red light projections on the ground and themselves.

El Ekeko, Rhiza, 2024, Intelligent Terrain, Ferme Lanthorn. Projection mapping of VOC emissions from subterranean fungal networks. Photo: Antoine Simard-Legault

How We Work

  • Two women sitting closely together, one showing something on a phone to the other, smiling and engaged in conversation.

    Media, Publishing, and Events

    Shares cultural narratives and prototypes cultural technologies in service to climate adaptation and resilience.

  • Electronic equipment and wires on a concrete floor with small poles wrapped in white cloth around the poles

    Experimental Adaptation

    Develops and tests community-specific cultural solutions.

  • Research and Development

    Engages in strategic analysis to advance adaptive resilience.

  • A woman giving a presentation in front of an audience, standing next to a large screen that displays the text 'éditions in space' along with graphic illustrations.

    Incubation

    Accelerate initiatives that show potential for transformative change.

Network CONVENING

Our convenings bring together cultural producers to connect and share their approach to cultural technologies, climate adaptation, and resilience.

Interested in hosting a local lab or facilitating a virtual convening?

Get in touch with our team.

  • GMT+8 (Taipei) 11:30–13:30

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