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Short abstract

A collective walkshop exploring the panel's themes and emergent ideas in dialogue with the river Kistula.

Long abstract

This open panel session aims to facilitate conversations around the subject of digital waste and rivers, applying field research methods to develop situated perspectives towards river ecologies as political sites of environmental social justice and resistance against intensive extractive practices in digital infrastructure.

Considering humanitarian and environmental policies have failed to protect industrial mining practices and tech companies to colonise, extract and poison waterways in the 'Global South', and the intensive demand for water governance to cool expansive server centres, what alliances can be formed by learning from environmental activist movements, such as citizen science and the river rights movement, to challenge political representation of water as resource but instead to consider it within the framework of transcorporeality and non-human subjectivity.

The walkshop will utilise walking as methodology to mobilise post-human perspectives towards interconnected bodies (biological, ecological, geological and technological) and create a dynamic space for reflecting on various ontologies of waste, through engaging with rivers and the non-human world through sensory led activities, prompts and discussion.