​Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life.

​We live in a moment where our trust in tech companies to protect our privacy and our freedom is at its lowest. Large swathes of the tech industry are shifting into an openly authoritarian politic. 

​At the same time, we live in a moment where our individual capacity to collaborate with technology has been amplified more than ever before. 

​How do we engage with this potential while living in accordance with the responsibility we have to the world and each other?

​Wayfinding is a series of conversations about finding our way through this landscape together, both individually and collectively. This series will place signs and markers to help you orient yourself in the digital world with intentionality. Wayfinding is not about having the answers but about asking the right questions together.

​​Wayfinding 3: Teenhood

​Few topics inspire more angst than the question of how all this technology is affecting kids - how social media impacts their self image, how the internet is (or isn't) changing the social dynamics of school and schoolyard bullying, how screen time is shaping attention spans. In books and podcasts and talk shows and lecture halls, the impact of growing up with technology is heatedly debated.

​One notable absence from many of these conversations is the voice of the kids themselves. Adults forget that kids are not merely subjects to be protected, but autonomous actors with their own agency and thoughts with a long tradition of subverting the intended use of various technologies with their own interpretations. We do kids a disservice when we don't listen to them about their own experiences.

​For Wayfinding: Teenhood, Rachel Long will be talking with a panel of teenagers from around Toronto about their relationship with technology and how they see things play out among their peers. What are they afraid of? What are they excited about? How would they do things differently, if they could control the technologies available to them? And what do they wish technologists knew about their experience?

​Logistics

​Doors: 6
Feature conversation: 7-7:45
Discussion with the audience: 7:45-8:15pm
Mingling: 8:15pm-9pm

​Snacks and refreshments will be provided

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​​♿️ Accessibility

​​​1RG does not have an accessible entrance, the front entrance requires 3 steps of about 8 inches each. The rear entrance is two steps. There is a bathroom on the ground floor.

​This event will primarily be held on the second floor which is accessible via an L-shaped staircase with handrails on both sides.