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.

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.

​Every other month members of the Democracy Network come together for Democracy Board Games Club, a night of democracy-themed games.

The ​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

Spend a day working alongside other organisations working on UK democratic reform

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 this March.

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.

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

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.

Class Wargames will be hosting a collective playing of Junta: graft, betrayal, and the occasional coup attempt – just another day in the republic!

“The active phase of a coup is like a military operation – only more so. If the general principle of tactics is the application of force at the right place, the coup achieves this with surgical precision by striking at the organisational heart of the whole state; if speed is often important in military operations, in the coup it is an essential requirement. But the coup differs from most military operations in one crucial respect: while in war it is often advantageous to retain some forces as reserves to be used in later (and possibly more critical) phases of the conflict, in the coup the principle of total commitment applies. The active stage takes place in one short period of time and forces held back today will be useless tomorrow: all our forces must therefore be used in one decisive engagement.” – Edward Luttwak

Class Wargames
puts on participatory performances of Guy Debord’s The Game of War and other subversive politico-military games;
investigates gaming as a metaphor for social relations under repressive neoliberalism;
celebrates the craft skills of gamers as artistic expression;
creates a social space where lefties can meet & play with each other;
re-enacts the proletarian struggles of the past in ludic form;
trains the militants of the cybernetic communist revolution to come.

​For more information about Class Wargames, see our website or join our Facebook Group to join the discussion.

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House. It 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, as well as previous attendees of this workshop, which aims to get you asking the right questions of AI tools so you can bootstrap anything from a simple site to a more 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 now freelances as a software developer, having built a variety of small tools and worked alongside experienced developers on large codebases. You can read more about past workshops here.

​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?

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

​Dr Six Silberman leads us in exploring how institutions work, some difficulties that arise in them, how they change, and how we each can try to participate constructively in them.

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.

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.

​​​​​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.

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.