IT University of Copenhagen (audio)

from Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Digital Counter Mapping recorded on May 22, 2025With guest Marysol Ortega Pallanezç, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University Visioning — the act of imagining futures — is crucial to design, yet dominant approaches often rely on fast, linear notions of time that limit what futures become possible. This lecture explores how the synergy between embroidery and design, as time-variant and material practices, offers an alternative mode of visioning, one that embraces layered, relational, and non-linear temporalities. By engaging with these plural timescapes, designers can contribute to a rebraiding of these temporalities — including and questioning dominant narratives of progress — to more intertwined futures. This approach invites a shift toward future-making that is embodied, affective, and attentive to ongoing change.

Avi Wigderson is one of the leading figures in the theory of  computation. His groundbreaking work on computational complexity, randomness, and cryptography has helped define the field over the past four decades. Recipient of both the Abel Prize and the Turing Award, Wigderson has been instrumental in revealing deep connections between computation, mathematics, and the nature of efficient reasoning.Nutan and Thore talk to Avi about life, research, mathematics, and computing. Avi embodies the ideals of the community of researchers in theoretical computer science, and how the norms around institutions, development, publishing, and networking have shaped the field. We also try to cover many aspects of this recent book highlighting the interplay between computing and mathematics, and role that TCS plays in revolutionising both information technology and many other scientific fields. Finally, we reflect on the future of the discipline, academic research, and the life of a researcher in the years to come. Avi’s 2019 book, Mathematics and Computation, is published by Princeton University press, and available for free on Princeton’s website.