Sustaining Healing Technologies Within and Beyond the Digital

Led by multimedia poet Samiir Saunders in collaboration with MAIA

MAIA is a Black-led, Art and Social Justice organisation based in Birmingham, UK. Their work explores art and culture as strategy for liberation. MAIA works in community through the creation of spaces, public programmes and resources with the Black imagination as a starting point.

This 3-hour workshop will introduce and discuss concept of digital equity and the interconnected factors (social,
economic, cultural) which affect it. Following a practical demonstration on using free audio (Audacity) and video (Olive) software, participants will discuss how diverse identities, backgrounds, and experiences might affect one’s access, safety, and literacy within digital spaces, as well as the kinds of barriers that might contribute to digital inequity. Through a creative exercise, participants will then collaborate to produce a video-poem which explores themes of community, connection, digital/physical spaces, healing justice, and/or equity/accessibility.