Collaboration is fundamental at SHAPE: Besides external collaborations, SHAPE has many collaborators within research environments across AU, including the research programme Human Futures, which has organized several research activities around AI in collaboration with SHAPE.

Participation and democracy form the basis of SHAPE’s seminar series, the Socio-Technical Data Studies Saloon, on multiple levels: with inspiration from the Danish ‘assembly hall’, the ambition is to facilitate presentations and open discussions on digitization, democracy, and citizenship. At our…

Last week, SHAPE had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Makoto Takahashi as speaker at our second Sociotechnical Data Studies Saloon – a series of seminars seeking to facilitate dialogues on the digital and democracy across various disciplines.

In medio November, the symposium “The Data Driven Welfare State? From Digitalization to Datafication” was hosted by DPU, Aarhus University. The ADD-project (Algorithms, Data and Democracy) and SHAPE – Shaping Digital Citizenship was the organizers of the day which aim was to gather researchers,…

SHAPE and the Human Futures research programme teamed up for the conference 'AI and the Humanities' on 6-7 September 2022. Find a summary of the conference here.