Conspirators Regroup | Hosted by virtual care lab

We're excited to continue researching Spatial & Access Intimacy together as part of our open microresidency project with The Bentway and From Later. In these next gatherings, we will be sorting through our gathered reflections so far, and synthesizing our findings for our collective Terms of Service.

Please sign up for any session that works best for your time zone and availability. Let us know ahead of time if you have any accessibility needs or preferences, and we will try to accommodate.

If you cannot make it to any of the sessions no worries. The goal is not for everyone to have to attend every meet-up. We will be sharing prompts, discussion notes, and living community agreements for open continued engagement via Discord, email, mail, or other ways.

At any time, you can refer to the #research-residency channel or reach out to Alice Yuan Zhang, Sara Suárez, or Lea Rose Sebastianis on Discord, or just email us at virtualcarelab@gmail.com.

About the project:

virtual care lab is undertaking a research-based micro-residency with The Bentway Conservancy, in partnership with the foresight studio From Later, to collect grassroots needs and perspectives around care, and techniques of access and intimacy in hybrid digital/physical spaces. We are developing strategies and prompts that explore alternative sensing and access, hybrid placemaking, and collective action. Through intimate gatherings and discussions, we are gathering techniques, tools, considerations, and a collective “terms of service” to be published with the broader public.

We welcome diverse, curious, thoughtful humans to join this initiative. You could be a healer, sex worker, writer, doula, gardener, researcher, community organizer, artist, technologist, disabled, neurodiverse, miscategorized or overly tracked by algorithms, frustrated by today’s internet — please help shape our shared process.

This entire process is open to public participation, and we plan for it to be imaginative, messy, thoughtful, brave, collective, and fun. In true virtual care lab ethos, you define your level of commitment and how you want to contribute. If you face financial, technical, time zone, physical, or other realities that make it hard to participate, let us know and we will work with you to enable access.

See our research webpage for more information about this project.

virtual care lab is a series of experiments in remote connection, in partnership with NAVEL. Reach out at virtualcarelab@gmail.com, or @virtualcarelab on IG or Twitter.