AIxDESIGN Festival 2025: On Slow AI

Introduction

On May 1-3, 2025, AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI transformed Loods6, in Amsterdam, into a playground for rethinking AI beyond mainstream tech-driven views. The 3-day festival was a fever dream of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, a playful art exhibition, and a film screening.

Timeline

January 2025 - May 2025

Team

Creative Lead

Nadia Piet

Operations Lead

Ploipailin Flynn

Production Lead

Sofia Vieira

Design Lead

Ana Marques

Communications

Elena Zaghis

Spatial Design Lead

Studio Gerritsen/Bart

Visual Identity

April Chu

Social Media Support

Dominika Čupková

+ an incredible team of volunteers!

Funding

Made possible with the support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Elisava, The Netherland-American Foundation, Institute of Sound & Vision, Netherlands Film Academy, het Cultuurfonds, Jagt Zwolsman Fonds, Loods6, and our lovely Community Supporters.

Introduction

On May 1-3, 2025, AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI transformed Loods6, in Amsterdam, into a playground for rethinking AI beyond mainstream tech-driven views. The 3-day festival was a fever dream of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, a playful art exhibition, and a film screening.

Timeline

January 2025 - May 2025

Team

Creative Lead

Nadia Piet

Operations Lead

Ploipailin Flynn

Production Lead

Sofia Vieira

Design Lead

Ana Marques

Communications

Elena Zaghis

Spatial Design Lead

Studio Gerritsen/Bart

Visual Identity

April Chu

Social Media Support

Dominika Čupková

+ an incredible team of volunteers!

Funding

About the festival

Imagine a cosy space for deconstructing mainstream AI stories, dreaming up new ones, and figuring out how to make them real.

Because while we don’t know where AI is going, we aren’t leaving it to Zuckermusk.

Find out more or feel the nostalgic feels

Speakers + Artists

We're grateful to have gathered the smartest, warmest, fuzziest bunch of (y)our favorite AI researchers and artists in the field to reflect, question, and reimagine what AI means for the rest of us:

Abdelrahman Hassan / Anna Rose Kerr / Anne Fehres / Caroline Sinders / Clarote / Computational Mama / Cristóbal Ascencio / Dominika Čupková / Emma Crabtree / Eryk Salvaggio / Fabian Mosele / Gaston Welisch / Gijs de Boer / Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes / Hanna Barakat / internet teapot / Janet Turra / Janire Goikoetxea / Jazmin Morris / Judith Veenkamp / Justin Pickard / Leo Scarin / Lex Fefegha / Luke Conroy / Maria Costa Graell / Marbles the Cat / Matt Webb / Moises Ramirez / Nadia Nadesan / Natalia Stanusch / Ola Bonati / Paulina Casas / Sophie Nadel / Soyun Park / Thiago Britto / Valeria Castillo / Vera van der Burg / Vytas Jankauskas / Zeina Saleem.

Thank you all for being part of this wild and beautiful ride!

Check out the full lineup

What we made

What if AI wasn't about moving fast and breaking things? What if we chose to move slow and repair things instead? 🐌

This video argues why we need alternative AI narratives beyond Silicon Valley's imagination – and what becomes possible when we make space for critical questions, embodied experience, and collective reimagining. This is part 1/3 of a video series from the first-ever AIxDESIGN Festival – exploring how we might make AI work for the rest of us, as told through the voices of the AIxDESIGN community.

Watch the rest of the aftermovies

Want to rewatch your favourite speaker from the festival? Couldn't make it and suffering from FOMO?

We're in the process of publishing all our recorded speaker sessions to youtube so you can watch and rewatch them anytime, anywhere for free, forever. Share this talk from Hannah Barakat unpacking the media cycles of hype and fear surrounding AI with someone who needs to see it.

Watch more talks

We documented all of our talks and workshops in session recaps on notion.

Each recap contains the background and details of each session, information about the speakers and/or facilitators, links to published recordings, all session materials, pictures and links to workshop outcomes.