Ration Club

Edward Saperia

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.

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Fri 17 OCT 2025 • 6:30pm – 10:00pm • Newspeak Hall

The launch of the London chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the world’s largest nonprofit membership organisation serving all individuals who create games. An evening of thought-provoking talks, panels and networking targeted at those who work, or are seeking to work in the games industry.

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Sat 18 OCT 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​Bring your instrument, your voice, or just come to listen and vibe with us. If you haven’t had much chance to play in a while this jam is for you - dust off your instrument and rediscover the joy of making music together in a friendly, no-pressure environment.

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Mon 20 OCT 2025 • 7:00pm – 9:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​It is a challenging moment for democracy worldwide, and Georgia stands out as one of the most prominent battlegrounds between autocratic and democratic forces. Once hailed as a champion of European integration, the country now faces a grim reality: an increasingly authoritarian Georgian Dream regime rigging elections, silencing dissent, and normalizing the existence of over a hundred political prisoners in jails.

​In this talk, we’ll briefly discuss Georgia’s path to its current repressive state under the regime and place it in a broader regional context, drawing comparisons with Moldova, Serbia, and other countries in the region. We’ll also explore political-psychological perspectives to unpack the tactics, challenges, and victories of Georgia’s protest movement.

​The talk will be led by Davit Jintcharadze, a fellowship candidate at Newspeak House, founding member of the new Freedom Square political party, and founder of Freedom Fund, Georgia’s only active resistance fund operating amid the government’s latest wave of repression. Before entering politics, his research focused on the psychological factors shaping voter behavior.

​Don’t worry—this won’t be a two-hour lecture. There will be time to chat and connect afterward over a complimentary glass of Georgian wine. Attendance is free, with optional donations welcome.

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Mon 20 OCT 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

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Tue 21 OCT 2025 • 6:30pm – 10:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​While economies stand to gain a lot from the next big thing in tech, many in creative sectors seem inadequately compensated when their work is used to train models.

​Regulation takes time, big tech is powerful, and ‘superintellience’ is an attention hog. So…

• ​Is the incoming economic impact far bigger, and IP is just a sidebar from the main event?
• ​Where are governments and tech companies in this right now?
• ​What does a future look like where AI is trained ethically?

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This is an unconference (open discussion event) where you can bring up your interests, concerns, and knowledge around the present and future impact of generative AI on IP law and the creative industries.

​We’ll open with speakers (TBA), and food will be provided during the break. Please arrive at 18:30 for a 19:00 start.

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Wed 22 OCT 2025 • 10:00am – 9:00pm • Newspeak Hall

Spend a day working alongside other organisations working on UK democratic reform, followed by an evening of Democracy Drinks.

Since March 2022 we’ve organised democracy co-working days to help bring together individuals and organisations within the UK democracy space - with more than 50 organisations joining us across our previous events, including Democracy Classroom, Civic Power Fund, Fair Vote UK, Nesta, Sortition Foundation, I Have A Voice, Radix Big Tent, Public Interest News Foundation, Unlock Democracy, Zero Hour and so many more!

​So if you’re working on a democracy project or organisation, or just keen to meet people that do, come along and join us for a coworking day, democracy drinks, or both, this October.

Feel free to drop in at any part of the coworking day, for all of it or just part of it - the more the merrier. We’ll be putting on tea & coffee, snacks and refreshments.

​We’ll be running the Coworking event from 10am til 5pm, and then we’ll start the evening social from 6.45pm onwards.

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Democracy Network are a network of people and organisations working on issues of power, democracy and voice throughout the UK. We aim to connect and work with others to build a stronger democracy fit for the 21st century. We do this through connecting people and supporting collaboration, increasing knowledge, skills and resources, and coordinating influencing strategies and action. Join the network here.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to drop us an email at [email protected]

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Wed 22 OCT 2025 • 4:00pm – 5:00pm • Classroom / Virtual

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

How do you deal with knowledge management? How do you know things?

What type of data do you need to track, access, search, store, process, output? Papers, citations, bookmarks, books, movies to watch? How does your system support you in your endeavours (or fight you?)?

Is it even worth organising knowledge when information is a search away, or can be reconstructed by AI? What purposes might a knowledge management system serve in this context?’

Where does your knowledge go? In which outputs? Can people excited by your work find you and subscribe to you?

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Thu 23 OCT 2025 • 6:30pm – 8:00pm • Classroom

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

​Robust evaluation depends on understanding uncertainty, and statistics provides the language for doing so. Even simple questions — has this intervention made a difference, or is what we see just chance? — require clear reasoning about probability and sampling.

​This session introduces those foundations, showing how statistical thinking helps distinguish real impact from noise, and how small errors in design or interpretation can lead to big mistakes.

• ​Probability from first principles
• ​Understanding samples and how they generalise
• ​Applying statistical reasoning to real-world questions

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​Andreas Varotsis is a data scientist and AI engineer who works to improve operational delivery and services across government using technology, data, and evidence. He’s spent the previous decade in various roles in central government and front-line delivery, including the Metropolitan Police Service, the data-science team of 10 Downing Street, and the Incubator for AI.

​He works to support a range of cross-government communities, including Evidence House, which works to improve the use of data and IT in government, and the Society of Evidence Based Policing, which champions research to enhance policing practices and reduce crime.

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Sun 26 OCT 2025 • 3:00pm – 4:30pm • Classroom

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

​Many possible pieces of technology require data about some aspect of the world in order to function. There are a number of powerful open dataset that can form the basis of a wide range of tools.

​We will survey a range of different large online data sources, examining what kinds of questions we might be able to answer, as well as getting to the practical stage of being able to extract usable data from these repositories

​The rest of the session will be devoted to thinking through a worked example of how we would go about using these data sources to answer the question “What are politically active organisations in the UK saying to their members?”

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Sun 26 OCT 2025 • 4:30pm – 6:30pm • Classroom

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House. It is primarily for faculty and fellowship candidates to start with, but if you don’t meet those criteria and are particularly interested do get in touch!

“Agile is dead. Long live Agile.”

​Development keeps getting faster, and parts of it are getting increasingly commodified. The existing project management and planning methodologies are struggling to keep up.

​How would you structure a project, whether a personal one that you’re working on or one you’re working with a team on, to maximise your chances of success? Is it realistic to build a new feature every day? What does this change about how we do development?

​We will work through an example of vertical slicing, and look at some tool choices for planning.

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Mon 27 OCT 2025 • 6:00pm – 9:00pm • Classroom + Drawing Room

Part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates.

​A space to make computer things with other people. Beginners, dabblers, and pros are all welcome. Explore, tinker, and share what you’re learning.

​Whether no-code, low-code, vibe-code, or trad-code — whatever you’re into, bring it along.

​Drawing room: Co-working and peer learning, work on your own projects, pick up ideas from others, or try out one of the many resources and suggestions floating around.

​Classroom: Workshops tbc - let Ed know if you want to run one.

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Tue 28 OCT 2025 • 6:00pm – 9:00pm • Classroom

Moving away from human-centred AI - what can we unravel in a world where humans, machines and other beings bring their unique features towards a flourishing society?

​Just us for an intimate AI Salon gathering to explore the opportunities and challenges posed by asking

• What kinds of intelligence might unfold when we move away from current anthropocentric design systems?
• How might humans interact with them and bring forth new emerging intelligence?
• Why the need to move beyond current methods in AI design, alignment and governance?

​Whilst we want to ensure current AI systems are safe, ethical and trustworthy, with appropriate guardrails in place, we miss the opportunity to reflect on what makes us truly human and where machines can fill in the gaps and bring forth new types of intelligence, such as emerging intelligence at the junction between humans, machines and other sentient beings.

​Some of the questions we will address and reflect on:

• Where have current AI alignment methods failed us and what opportunities can we unravel if we go beyond human-aligned evaluation methods?
• How can we use AI systems to reflect on human ethics and in effect, use these as human simulations?
• What kind of novel AI architectures and models could we unfold if we look at non-human intelligence, and can we build an ecosystem whereby the sum of the parts is larger than the whole? Are there neglected biological intelligent behaviours that we can learn from?
• What makes us uniquely human and where can we augment machines to fill in the gaps to enable a thriving ecosystem where all sentient beings, natural or artificial, can bring forth their uniqueness and unleash their full potential?

​We invite thinkers, researchers, designers, ethicists, creatives and anyone with an interest in how we shape AI systems to join the discussion.

​Please see below some papers and resources to give you a flavour of the topics we will discuss:

• Moving Away From Anthropocentrism (PhiAI)
• After Alignment (Antikythera)
• Diverse Intelligences (Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.) 
• What is Intelligence? (Antikythera)

​This is an in-person event. To facilitate smooth and cohesive conversations, please arrive between 6-6:30pm for a prompt discussion start at 6:30pm.

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​​​​The AI Salon is a global community founded in San Francisco focused on intimate, small-sized group discussions on the sociological, economic, cultural, and philosophical impacts and meaning of AI developments. We host small group discussions, all of which you can find on our calendar. You can find summaries of our previous conversations on our substack.

​This event is done in collaboration with PhiAI, an online magazine at the intersection of technology and the humanities, run as a writer’s collective.

​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. We base acceptances based on levels of interest and passion demonstrated in registration question answers. If you are not accepted to this event, please try and come to another!

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Sat 01 NOV 2025 • 10:00am – 8:00pm • Classroom

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

Join us for the second event in the Mod Jam series with Mod Jam #02 - ToxiCity.

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

​Staying with the legendary Doom (1993) and building upon our experiences from previous sessions, we will explore the alternative narratives that can break through the confines of Doom’s strict yet open game environment. Can Doomguy address contemporary toxicity while operating radioactive waste facilities?

​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 can help us free the creative genie from the gaming industry’s bottle.

​Outline

• Recap on modding and Doom (we are planning a workshop event dedicated to this prior to this event too)
• Brainstorming
• Jam
• Presentations

​Checklist

• No programming skills required as basic modding (assets/textures) is done through file-swapping into packages that we can run through pre-installed software
• Computer (If you don’t have a computer, think about how you could collaborate with the other people. Drawing on paper? Writing? Sound making?, etc.)
• If you can, you can pre-install ZDOOM and Slade in advance.
• You can also install a DOOM level builders such as Ultimate Doom Builder. (For Mac, Eureka seems to work kind of OK)
• You could also get a WAD file such as FREEDOOM but for this, you can wait until the event
• We’re planning to organise a separate workshop event before this. The date is to be announced but you could plan to attend that one too sometime the week before the jam

​​Please note that we won’t be providing food so feel free to bring your own and there will be plenty of food options nearby.

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Sun 02 NOV 2025 • 2:00pm – 8:00pm • Newspeak Hall

A 6-hour Open Space Technology (OST) unconference. Swap what actually works with AI. Share ideas and worries about the future. Get inspired. (Get terrified, optional.) Bring prompts, patterns, policies, experiences, current research, and hard-won lessons: both the “this could work” and the “this could go wrong.”

​Who’s this for? Builders, coaches/educators, founders/civic-tech, policy/alignment folk, curious newcomers.

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​Why come?

• Practice: Share prompts, workflows, code snippets personal experiences, collaboration tricks you can experiment with.
• Safety: Practical safety/alignment moves (data hygiene, evals, red-teaming, “kill-switch” conditions). More research or mid-long term oriented conversations, positions, exchanges.
• Community: Meet peers who are shipping, worried (productively), or both.

​If you want to tell everyone what you’ve learned: come.
If you want to warn everyone we need guardrails (and have ideas): come.
If you want to listen, test, and contribute: come.

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​What is an unconference? (OST in 60 seconds)

​We start together, build the agenda together, then split into parallel sessions.

​Principles (short):

• Whoever comes are the right people.
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
• Whenever it starts is the right time.
• When it’s over, it’s over.

​Law of Two Feet: If you’re not learning or contributing, move to another session. Guilt-free.

​Format (today): Opening circle → marketplace (we propose sessions) → four session blocks → group synthesis → social

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​Schedule

13:30 Doors open
14:00 Opening circle (purpose, principles, logistics) — 20m
14:20 Marketplace (build the grid) — 20m
14:40 Session Block A — 45m
15:30 Session Block B — 45m
16:20 Break — 20m
16:40 Session Block C — 45m
17:30 Session Block D — 45m
18:20 Closing circle — 30m
18:50–20:00 Social / teardown

​We will have up to 7 spaces for sessions at the same time. (Exact times may shift slightly on the day.)

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​Tracks & seed topics (examples)

• Practice: Share prompts, workflows, code snippets personal experiences, collaboration tricks you can experiment with.
• Safety: Practical safety/alignment moves (data hygiene, evals, red-teaming, “kill-switch” conditions). More research or mid-long term oriented conversations, positions, exchanges.
• Civic/Org: AI for public interest, policy interfaces, procurement, org adoption playbooks.
• Community: Meet peers who are shipping, worried (productively), or both.

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​Proposing sessions

​We will do it at the event, during a beautiful messy moment at the start. You can bring a more polished presentation, demo, topic. You can bring just a question, or something you tried and got curious about. We will propose the topics, describe them, host them, see who comes.

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​FAQ

• Do I need to be an expert? No. If you’re curious and constructive, you’re in. Experts welcome, egos not required.
• Keynote speakers? No keynotes. If you’re keynote-caliber, host a session or a 5-min lightning.
• Can I just listen? Yes, but you’ll get more by proposing, asking, or demoing.
• What should I bring? Curiosity and desire to learn and share. A problem, demo, or story if you want. Laptop optional. Power adapters if you need them.

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​House rules / Code of Conduct

​Be kind. Be specific. Debate ideas, not people. No hype-only demos: show what you do, disclose models, data, limits, and risks. Zero tolerance for harassment. Breaches = removal.

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Sun 02 NOV 2025 • 3:00pm – 4:30pm • Classroom

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

• What platforms are you already in?
• How do you build a bot for Slack, Discord, WhatsApp etc that can annoy everyone else in that group?
• What’s the worst that can happen in chat?
• What are you building at the minute?

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​A session lead by John Evans, an expert chat developer and cooperative practitioner. He’s the creator of Spacetube, a tool that connects groups together via their internal chat systems e.g. Slack, Discord, Matrix, Whatsapp, Rocketchat, Signal. He is the lead developer for Chat Hackers, a community building Whatsapp tools for organisers.

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Mon 03 NOV 2025 • 6:15pm – 8:00pm • Classroom

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

In this third seminar, we turn to the relationship between technology and institutions over time — how they emerge, evolve, are maintained, and fail. We will trace the histories of systems such as navigation, timekeeping, and the internet to explore how institutions enable, constrain, and sustain technological development. The discussion examines technology as a way of formalising and automating rules, the growing complexity this produces, and the trade-offs between innovation, simplicity, validity, and human rights.

From there, we reflect on how metaphors shape our understanding of institutions and their lifecycles — how they grow, decay, and interact within wider ecosystems. Drawing on ecological imagery and organisational theory, we will consider what it means to cultivate sustainable, mutually supportive relationships between technologies, institutions, and the people who inhabit them.

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Mon 03 NOV 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

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Tue 04 NOV 2025 • 6:30pm – 8:00pm • Classroom

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

​This is a lecture on the protocols of social networks. We’ll talk about:

• ​How do digital social networks shape political power today?
• ​Can decentralised social networks contribute to decentralised political power (eg. democracy)?
• ​Protocols and tech we’ll talk about:
  • ​Twitter as a protocol
  • ​Mastodon, ActivityPub, the Fediverse
  • ​Bluesky and the AT Protocol

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Sun 09 NOV 2025 • 1:00pm – 10:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​Join us in shaping Wiser Futures!

​What is it?

​This gathering of communities will explore paths to a planetary society defined by long-term thinking, collective wisdom and interconnectedness.

​Purpose

​Co-hosted by Second Renaissance London and Long Now London the aim is to bring people together from a range of aligned London-based communities - as well as folks who are new to the scene but want to learn more and take part.

​Together, we’ll seek out commonalities, grow networks, cross-pollinate ideas, practice together and build the field.

​Structure

​The format is strongly participant-led, with the content shaped by you, the participants.

​You can host a group session of any kind you choose - just bear in mind that the break-out areas are best suited for groups of around 12 or less.

​We encourage particants to add to the timetable in advance using this form. We’ll also have an unconference-style physical board you can add to on the day to propose a session.

​Some examples of what you could host:

• an introduction to your project or community, with Q&A
• a facilitated discussion on a topic of interest
• a presentation on a topic of interest with Q&A
• a structured group practice such as guided meditation or authentic relating

​Whether you have something you want to share, or just want to learn from and connect with others, you’re very welcome!

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Mon 10 NOV 2025 • 6:00pm – 9:00pm • Classroom + Drawing Room

Part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates.

​A space to make computer things with other people. Beginners, dabblers, and pros are all welcome. Explore, tinker, and share what you’re learning.

​Whether no-code, low-code, vibe-code, or trad-code — whatever you’re into, bring it along.

​Drawing room: Co-working and peer learning, work on your own projects, pick up ideas from others, or try out one of the many resources and suggestions floating around.

​Classroom: Workshops tbc - let Ed know if you want to run one.

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Tue 11 NOV 2025 • 6:30pm – 8:00pm • Classroom

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

​In this session we will examine a political technology project with an existing evaluation, working through how it was designed, what evidence it produced, whether that evidence convincingly demonstrated impact, and what lessons can be drawn for future work.

​By dissecting a concrete case, we will draw out lessons on both good practice and common mistakes, and consider how evaluation choices shape the trajectory of projects that seek to create change.

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​Andreas Varotsis is a data scientist and AI engineer who works to improve operational delivery and services across government using technology, data, and evidence. He’s spent the previous decade in various roles in central government and front-line delivery, including the Metropolitan Police Service, the data-science team of 10 Downing Street, and the Incubator for AI.

​He works to support a range of cross-government communities, including Evidence House, which works to improve the use of data and IT in government, and the Society of Evidence Based Policing, which champions research to enhance policing practices and reduce crime.

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Sat 15 NOV 2025 • 10:30am – 10:00pm • Newspeak Hall

Join us for a showcase and hackday, where we will present the tools we have developed to date, give a workshop on how to build on WhatsApp, and spend the afternoon hacking together on new ideas.

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Chat Hackers is a group of technologists dedicated to developing tools that support organisers on WhatsApp, Signal, and other chat apps. We come together to work on solutions that address the coordination challenges of campaigns and community groups. Chat Hackers was established through a partnership between John Evans (spacetu.be), Campaign Lab and Newspeak House.

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Mon 17 NOV 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

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Tue 18 NOV 2025 • 3:00pm – 4:00pm • Classroom / Virtual

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

How do you know things? What do you track, access, search, store, process, output? How does your system support you in your endeavours (or fight you?)? Where does your knowledge go? In which outputs? Can people find you and subscribe to you? Is it even worth organising knowledge when information is a search away, or can be reconstructed by AI? What purposes might a knowledge management system serve in this context?

In this session we will discuss results and assignments from the first session, and how they relate to your research direction.

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Tue 18 NOV 2025 • 6:00pm – 7:30pm • Classroom

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

​What is Service Design? Who invented it? Does it really exist in the wild?!

​We’ll explore the history of digital design movements, from the emergence of User Centred Design, through the agile revolution, to the service organisation. We will touch on the tools of the trade, and discuss the perils of fetishising design artefacts.

​Reading:

• Good Services
• This is Service Design Doing
• The Service Organisation
• Good services are verbs, bad services are nouns

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​Sinead Doyle is a Digital Strategist and Service Designer. As an Associate Director at Transform, she helps clients set a vision for their digital products and services. She guides multidisciplinary teams through the service design process, to produce better, simpler customer experiences. Over fifteen years in digital, she has worked across strategy, creative, and media, at agencies and consultancies, on projects spanning public and private sectors.

​Sinead was Lead Service Designer on the Covid Vaccination Programme with NHS England in 2020. She co-led the MoD’s Defence Innovation Unit training programme, upskilling a large cohort of senior staff. In the run up to Brexit she made a crowd-sourced map of EU funded projects in the UK (Look Around EU). She is currentlyAccount Director on the design workstream of HMCTS Reform programme, digitising citizen-facing court processes within the Ministry of Justice. She is also working on an approach to sustainable design for adoption across a 50-strong design practice.

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Mon 01 DEC 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

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Fri 05 DEC 2025 • 5:00pm – 10:00pm • Throughout

​To mark our first decade, Newspeak House presents a series of talks and workshops from fellows and faculty across a full weekend conference. Keep up with the latest developments in the field, meet faces new and old, relax on our terrace, enjoy an all day buffet, and socialise late into the evening. Full programme TBA.

17:00-23:00 Friday 5 December
10:00-23:00 Saturday 6 December
10:00-22:00 Sunday 12 December

Newspeak House 10th Anniversary: a decade of Political Technology

The tenth anniversary of Newspeak House marks a decade shaped by profound political and technological change.

Smartphones. Group chats. Attention algorithms. Crowdfunding. Language models. Cryptocurrencies. Collaborative documents. Streaming. Emoji reacts. Privacy laws. The gig economy. Six UK elections. Brexit. Covid. Momentum. Ukraine. Reform. Gaza. Trump (twice). Cambridge Analytica. The birth and collapse of Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker. Wikidata from zero to a hundred million items.

In that time Newspeak House has hosted thousands of events, launched twenty books, and graduated over a hundred fellows, many now in senior positions across a spectrum of key institutions.

We have supported fledgling movements that are now part of the furniture: impact evaluation, open data, service design, election tech, existential risk, community strategy, campaign innovation, decentralised social media, digital democracy, cognitive security, prediction markets, data journalism, and many more.

Furthermore, Newspeak House has become home for the London College of Political Technology, offering a formal one year programme with a homegrown faculty and original curriculum, with a dedicated classroom and a majority of non-resident students.

To mark our first decade, Newspeak House presents a series of talks and workshops from fellows and faculty across a full weekend conference. Keep up with the latest developments in the field, meet faces new and old, relax on our terrace, enjoy our all day buffet, and socialise late into the evening.

Fundraiser: for the next ten years

If you don’t support your civic institutions, they go away. As well as a conference and celebration, this event is also a fundraiser to secure the future of the college and its role as a community space.

Newspeak House has weathered a series of serious challenges, not least the pandemic and its aftermath. This event is to celebrate overcoming those challenges, becoming one of the very few autonomous and independent third spaces to still be opening its doors. However, these challenges have demolished financial reserves that are difficult to rebuild beyond the college’s normal activities.

It is with this in mind that we have set our prices for this landmark celebration. Your ticket contributes to the ongoing financial health of Newspeak House, as well as scholarships for students in future years. We are extremely grateful for all of your support.

If you’ve enjoyed the programming and facilitation of Newspeak House over the last ten years, now is the time to show your support. If you can’t attend the event, you can still donate or become a member!

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Mon 15 DEC 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

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Mon 29 DEC 2025 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

Register ↗