For Love of the World Festival: Claiming the Story
29 March 2025
15:00-19:30
Theater de Veste
What stories can we tell so that we can learn to love the world again? What words stand in our way? Create a new, more loving story at the second edition of the For Love of the World festival.
For Love of the World is a one-of-a-kind festival organized by Studium Generale at TU Delft that combines philosophy, art, and technology to create new narratives. In this second edition, we will explore power structures through language. Experience the power of silence, create your own language, be inspired by indigenous philosophy, and carry out ChatGPT prompts in real life.
Save the date: Saturday, March 29, 2025, for a program filled with lectures, workshops, art installations, performances, and stories.
Programme
Programme Update: Festival’s Speakers Announced!
Please find the full programme schedule here or at the bottom of this page.
Imagination, sustainability, language, and technology are just a few of the topics covered by the talented artists, musicians, and presenters at the For Love of the World Festival.
Theatre Hall
Author and researcher Shivant Jhagroe, a keynote speaker, argues for an “eco-just society” and criticises sustainability as a “green pacifier” that impedes fair and dramatic systemic transformation. How can we make language work differently in this transformation? How can we decolonize words and worlds? Dr. John Bosco Conama, Director of the Centre for Deaf Studies and a keynote speaker, will discuss patterns of linguistic hegemony and linguistic imperialism that marginalise Irish Sign Language. TU Delft researcher, designer and artist Grace Turtle explores ways to think about queering—and design with—AI systems. Their practice foregrounds fluidity, multiplicity and entanglements between humans, non-humans and border subjectivities.
Madelaine Ley, a spiritual environmentalist and philosopher, is leading the 30 minute session Remember We’re Earthlings in which she invites you into a collective remembering through a blend of philosophy, poetry, science, and contemplative practice. Joost Vervoort, who investigates how social infrastructures might sustain mystery and imagination, will take us on a journey through our imaginative and spiritual minds.
Theatercafé
In this space, you can immerse yourself in experiences through design and art.
In collaboration with the TU Delft architecture student association Argus, students Tess Wilschut and Zuzanna Jastrzebska created The Tripod, a large-scale installation that is a unique addition to the festival. With its Y-shaped construction and 800 cardboard rings, this exhibit divides the human experience into three primary domains: the natural world, human society, and the metaphysical. Each domain showcases the works of designers and artists.
The video installation NATURA*Body by Floris Schönfeld uses techniques from special effects in film to suggest a new morphogenesis, one in which the digital and natural become indistinguishable. AICON and the Feminist Generative AI Lab present Julia Luteijn’s artwork ‘Kilo-girls’: a collection of computer-generated poems that reflect programmed gender biases, while paradoxically reminding us of women’s historical role in computing. The Imagis Lab and Virginia Tassinari invite you to think about an impossible dialogue in the framework of the prison system in their Situated Vocabulary Project. Visitors can talk to a spiritual chatbot created by Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes and learn about the use of artificial intelligence in safeguarding traditional wisdom and other alternate timelines. These are just a few of the thought-provoking works featured in each section.
In their interactive performance titled “The Pen Test,” artists Jesse Allison, Derick Ostrenko, and Vincent Cellucci combine interactive technology, large language models, and mobile devices to test the hold words and algorithms have on us as humans.
Dr. ir. Yke Bauke Eijsma talks about artificial intelligence as a new kind of intelligence.
Made by students
Like last year, several student clubs and associations collaborate with us. Expect debates, language games, (student made) art, and poetry readings by VOX, the Debating Club, and Hesiodos. The student run initiative Kaleidos will provide a space that challenges you to turn the constraints language gives us inside out. Explore with your hands, by doing and making.
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