Date : Sep 27, 2025

Time : 15:00 - 17:00 PM

Digital technology is now inseparable from cultural ecosystems—shaping not only how culture is produced and disseminated but also how it is managed, experienced, and sustained. This roundtable, Digital Technologies: Tools, Languages, and Infrastructure for Cultural Sustainability, gathers curators, artists, researchers, and technologists to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerge when the digital becomes a core infrastructure of cultural life. While digital tools can expand accessibility, efficiency, and transparency—through data-driven curation, blockchain-based provenance, or open-source platforms—they also carry ecological and social costs that demand urgent attention.

The discussion will consider how immersive and “dematerialized” practices might reduce the material footprint of cultural production, while also questioning the energy demands and environmental consequences of digital infrastructures themselves. It asks how institutions can cultivate inclusive, equitable, and regenerative digital ecosystems—where innovation is balanced with responsibility, and technological design is grounded in environmental justice and social equity.

Amid rapid technological change, the roundtable seeks to chart pathways for cultural institutions to harness digital tools critically and creatively, ensuring that technology does not only accelerate progress but also sustains care, accountability, and resilience.