Tuesday, 21 April 2026 | 9:00 – 13:00 | TU Delft
Coffee and sandwich lunch included.
A participatory workshop with Dr. Frederick van Amstel, organized by the Delft Design for Values Institute’s Special Interest Group “Design for Justice.”
Despite the promises of digital innovation, many technologies, including those created in university settings, shape everyday life in ways that reinforce inequality, exclusion, and exploitation.
This 4-hour interactive workshop uses theatrical techniques inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed and incorporates embodied interaction design practices to explore how technologies such as social media, platforms, and apps can mediate power, inequality, and resistance.
Participants will:
The workshop is open to students, researchers, and other members of the TU Delft community interested in technology, society, and social justice.
This activity is open to all human bodies, including those who think they have no talent for acting. Special accommodations can be provided for people with disabilities, people with limited mobility, racialized people living with racial trauma, survivors of sexual assault, and others who wish to disclose specific needs to the organizers before or during the workshop.
Find more about Frederick van Amstel and the Theater of the Techno-Oppressed on his website.