

Virtual Meet-up: Improvized Climate Futures | Cultural Technologies Lab (NorthAmerica timezones)
How do improvised gatherings, temporary cultural interventions, and unscripted encounters help communities adapt to ecological uncertainty? Can spontaneity in art become a practice for climate resilience?
Facilitator: Luisa Ji
Luisa Ji is a creative strategist and cultural technologist working at the intersection of public imagination, digital transformation, and systems of care. With over a decade of global experience, she leads participatory programs that use storytelling, worldbuilding, and culturally-specific technological adaptations to help institutions navigate cultural and ecological volatility.
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Culture is a process from which we derive shared meaning. UKAI Projects invites you to join our Virtual Lunch for the Cultural Technologies Lab: a network of cultural practitioners, artists, designers, researchers, and change leaders interested in adaptations and resilience in the face of climate change, as well as pressing social, technological, and political challenges.
Agenda:
15 min introduction: What is Cultural Technologies Lab
30 min network exchange: facilitated conversations on how culture can be leveraged as core mechanisms for climate adaptations
15 min: insights sharing
An Independent Initiative of UKAI Projects, a Canadian arts not-for-profit organization active since 2017
The Cultural Technologies Lab is made possible through the generous support of the Council for the Arts
Our activities in Taiwan and broadly the SEA/AP region are supported by Artsite Accton Foundation and Hsinchu City Cultural Bureau as part of a research residency.