by Marta | Sep 15, 2021 | Article
How to integrate some sense of wonder in everyday routes? Where we direct attention plays an important role. Last week, I had the pleasure to organise an experiential walk in Amsterdam Science Park (ASP) in collaboration with LAND Research Lab. We were hosted by Waag...
by Marta | Mar 31, 2021 | Article
Recently Pennsylvania passed a law that authorises delivery robots to circulate on sidewalks and classifies them as pedestrians. Autonomous robots are referred to as personal delivery devices (PDD). PDDs are equated to pedestrians so long as they grant the...
by Marta | Jan 19, 2021 | Article
On January 18 the European Commission launched a brand new initiative, the New European Bauhaus. With it, the EC taps into a key European cultural and industrial experience – the Walter Gropius project of a “school that could provide artistic guidance...
by Marta | Jan 14, 2021 | Article
On January 7, the European Commission decided to register a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Civil society initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance practices’. This officialisation is a gamechanger: if the ECI – better...
by Marta | Dec 10, 2020 | Article
It is okay to be disoriented by the number of publications and guidelines about AI ethics. Since 2016, they have been booming. The inventory of AI ethics guidelines compiled by AlgorithmWatch lists over 160 of them, and it is continuously updated. Much has been said...
by Marta | Dec 3, 2020 | Article
Europeans often look at the easiness with which American cops take lives (certain kind of lives, mostly) with superiority. Analysis of the US social divide, poverty and gun culture fill the columns of eminent newspapers. Still, their indignation is fuelled by the...
