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.

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

A gathering of the Odyssey Fellowship.

​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.

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

A workshop for developing your network development and field building practice.

​​​​​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.

​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.

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

What’s the next best thing to building products?

​Breaking them.

By the end of this session, you should know how to break any app open.

Areas we’ll cover:

• Decompiling apps
• Making sense of obfuscated codebases
• Hooking into apps at runtime
• Forcing UI states
• Locating assets inside a large directory

​This will be less of a workshop and more of a lecture. This is because setting up an environment for reverse engineering is too time consuming for the session. The technical/willing among you can take this information away and w̶r̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶o̶k̶ investigate products politely.

​Disclaimer: I am obviously not responsible for anything you do with this information.