Each week the college hosts a community dinner called Ration Club. It's open to anyone who'd like to find out more about the college and its work. To find out more or if you'd like to attend, please register.

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House.

In person attendance is limited to faculty and fellowship candidates, but the presentation will be livestreamed; to watch, reserve a remote ticket and a link will be sent to you on the day.

​The 2024 fellowship candidates have spent the spring term considering how best to allocate a fictional budget across a diverse selection of political technology projects chosen from the Civic Tech Field Guide.

​In this session they will reveal their decision, share their process, and answer questions from the audience.

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

A session for the 2024 Cohort to reflect on the progress of their group activities so far, and to make plans for how they can be improved going forwards.

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​In this session, fellowship candidates will have the opportunity to share and discuss ideas or preliminary work that they have done on their prototype projects.

​​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​In this module, we tackle a range of tactics and strategies for societal transformation, including experimentation, prefiguration, envisioning, hyperstition and new hegemonies and sovereignties. This module centres on social technologies for diverse futurisms.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.

This seminar is for Newspeak House fellowship candidates, and will be recorded.

​From 2016-2021 Asil Sidahmed (asilsidahmed.com) worked as an advocacy specialist for Médecins Sans Frontières in Iraq, Lebanon, South Africa, Brasil, Belgium, Serbia, Cöte d’ivoire, Jordan, and Turkey, as well as for Sudan’s transitional government as a strategic advisor to the minister of health, focusing on policies including reproductive justice, sexual and gender based violence, humanitarian access to health care in emergencies, migration, democratic transition, epidemiology, LGBTQIA+, military negotiations surveillance, and more.

​In this seminar, Sidahmed will give an overview of her manuscript ‘Circling the Periphery’—recently shortlisted for a national award from the Wellcome Collection—which describes these experiences, touching on themes of borders, testimony, surveillance, reproductive justice, and feminist notions of representation in humanitarian health access.

​Part of a collaboration between Sidahmed and Newspeak House fellowship candidate Heather Allansdottir entitled “(Dis)Gendered bodies, Surveillance and the Law”.

​The seminar seeks to be neurodivergent friendly so will incorporate an interactive element and welcome rest breaks and interruptions.

This session is part of the Robust Software and Systems module at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​The internet is a hostile environment. Internet-facing applications face a constant stream of threats - ranging from casual scripted attacks through to sophisticated, targeted attacks. Asking users to trust you with their data is a big responsibility.

​In this module we’ll explore techniques for reasoning about this environment, and how to build software and systems that are reliable and protect user data.

​This session is about the things you can do to know you’re acting responsibly with your users’ data, and it’s focused on supporting small indie application developers.

​If you’re thinking about developing a new application or system, time spent thinking about this as early as possible in the development lifecycle is very valuable, and I invite you to spend some time workshopping these topics.

​Preparing for this session

• Pre-read: 2025 RS&S-01 your responsibilities
• Think about your project, and let me know if you’re willing to use it as an example that we can workshop together in the session.

This session is open to the public, however spaces are very limited. Registration includes a suggested contribution towards Jethro’s time.

​A workshop for those with little or no experience with code, which aims to get you asking the right questions of AI tools so you can bootstrap anything from a simple site, to data analysis, to a complex web app.

​The workshop will be led by Jethro Reeve, a Newspeak House Fellow of the 2023-24 cohort. He started using AI to code in October 2023. He’s now a full-time software developer at coefficient.ai and has built a variety of projects for campaignlab.uk.

​Workshop Overview

​In this workshop, you’ll get a practical introduction to what I’ve found to be the most useful AI coding tools.

​I’ve provide you with the scaffolding to build and host your first prototype, while avoiding the inevitable blind alleys these models can send you on. By the end of the session you’ll be equipped to handle the warts to get started on your coding journey.

​First, we’ll build and host your own website so you can understand the basic workflow and limitations of the tools.

​Then once you’ve got the hang of it, we’ll use what you know to kickstart your own project.

​There’ll be plenty of opportunity to answer shared questions, like:

• How far can you really get with AI?
• What do experienced coders think?
• How can I avoid expensive mistakes?

You can read more about the workshop here.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.

A space to dream of better futures, where technical decisions aren’t ruled by a couple of billionaires, where war isn’t seen as inevitable, and human rights & democracy are guiding principles for businesses.

Who is this space for?

For anyone who has been working against techno-solutionism/techno-fascism/techno-chauvinism and feels burned out by the geopolitics of the day.

What’s the plan?

We get together and get creative. Bring a lego set, a whittling project, a some paintbrushes, pencils, a sketchpad, an embroidery project, a dressmaking pattern & fabric, a potato for printing, your knitting, you get the idea. We’ll also supply pens & paper, embroidery hoops, and magazines for collaging.

​We make things with our hands and we dream.

​​We give you s p a c e.

But this seems like a waste of time - we need action!

​​We need to recharge too. We need to remind ourselves about why we do this work. We need community and reflection.

​​Drop in for an hour or stay for 4. BYO Snacks.

Seize the mechanics of your games, join the Mod Jam movement!

​Join us as we launch the Mod Jam series at Newspeak House with Mod Jam #01 - DADA DOOM.

​The Mod Jam series will demonstrate how re-purposing, remixing, expanding and hi-jacking existing games can be channeled for collective expression.

​Starting with the legendary DOOM (1993) and looking at its rich modding history, we will explore the alternative narratives that can break through the confines of a strict game environment.

​Modding allows us to reclaim agency. It is an act of opening possibilities within an existing system, to change a world using its own rules and constraints. Performance applied to gameplay. As a community-led practice to appropriate, tweak, expand and improve the medium, modding has shaped the industry from Counter-Strike (Half-Life mod) to Team Fortress (Quake), DOTA (Warcraft III), and PUBG (ARMA 2).

​Outline

• recap on doom mod (we are planning a workshop event dedicated to this prior to this event too)
• brainstorming
• jam
• presentations

​Iceland’s 2010s constitution-drafting experience was innovative in both form and substance. Triggered by Iceland’s unique response to the global financial crisis, it pioneered new collaborative forms of constitution-drafting, and also initiated new constitutional provisions relating to ‘rights of future generations to a clean environment’.

​Dr Heather Allansdottir will discuss her research and experiences with the Icelandic constitution drafting, and what we can learn from this experience.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.