ETHOS Lab

We’ve been thinking about where, and how, we want to gather and (dis)connect.

So much of the work at ETHOS is about questioning infrastructures, power, and the systems we participate in, and we are inspired by these tensions to seek alternatives to the reaches of big tech.

Our account will still be here as an archive of all the ideas shared and ways that we’ve collaborated with others, but we won’t be posting here on instagram any more.

If you would to stay updated on our open events, workshops and other news from our lab community, we invite you to sign up to our newsletter (link in bio). It’s shared both digitally and in print, and also available through our website; as a slower, more intimate format, it feels closer to the kinds of exchanges we want to nurture. And you can also of course always write to us at [email protected]

Take for nå and see you elsewhere! 🪽🩵☁️✨👾

ETHOS LAB

A new blog post by Junior Researcher Sabine Carlis Hansen up now! On the invisible work of being digital with a disability in Denmark. Read it on the Metadata blog at ethos.itu.dk 👾

So looking forward to our first event of the year: a tactile seminar with writer and artist Dr D Mortimer on sensual methodologies, crip desire & the fugitive archive 🪽

Participate are invited to share resources and create a toolkit for navigating the institution from the position of a “problem body”. We will discuss what it means to read in a fugitive manner and in what ways collective, embodied, disabled, d**e, q***r and tr*******al knowledges can/do infiltrate and disrupt the hegemonic structure of the university. We will read together. Instinctively. Surreptitiously. And discuss the role of crip instinct and collectivity in surviving the university system. How might our collective “hunches” and gut feelings be their own material resources? And how might thinking with maladjustment, frailty and dis/order prove edifying in a time of neo-liberal pedagogical invulnerability, rising populism, climate catastrophe and AI?

🖍️ Limited spots available, ITU students prioritised. To sign up, email [email protected], with your name and a line or two about your interest in the themes of the seminar.

Another piece on our Metadata blog, this time by on cripping methodologies, refusing normative time and the project of creating a design history archive of crip culture. Read it at ethos.itu.dk ☁️

Wishing you all a gentle start to 2026. As we ease into the beginning of a new semester and year, Harriet Faye Sanderson asks us to reflect on questions of care, precarity and what it means to support, affirm and sustain each other across digital space. New blog post up on our website now 🤍 Read it at: ethos.itu.dk/exploring-the-tensions-in-care/

some pictures from our Play Fair last week where Junior Researchers at the lab presented their projects around care memories, access, disability and different ways of collective archiving 💌💌💌

Some photos from our event yesterday - a wonderful talk and workshop by , on food, natural history museums, colonial histories, cookbook taxonomies and how friendship sustains us in life and in research! We had a lot of fun making our own screen-recorded videos around food memories at the workshop 🥟🍇🌽🥥🌰

Our final Feminist Technoscience in Practice event of the year: gardenblues[dot]net. Subverting Cook Book Taxonomies and other Friendship Activities 🌶️🌽🐛🪻

On November 27th, researcher and writer Semine Long-Callesen will give an open lecture followed by a hands-on workshop where we will shape our own videos around themes of food and memory.

🌱IMPORTANT
The lecture at 15.00 in AUD3 is open to all! To participate in the workshop (from 16.00 in room 2A50), you need to reserve a ticket (link in our bio).

15:00 - 16:00 - Lecture in Auditorium 3. The lecture will offer a brief history of the natural history museum - an institution established for territorial reconnaissance by European empires, serving colonial rule and resource extraction. The lecture will explore two out of the two thousand museums of the British Empire: the Perak Museum in Malaya and the Raffles Museum in Singapore. In its early stages, the museum institution was a scientific laboratory that organized mineral expeditions and botanical experiments that eventually led to widespread tin mining and cultivation of cash crops such as rubber. As the imperial search for revenue deforested and exhausted colonial territories, the museum became a shrine for specimens gone extinct. It represented a fantasy of a paradisical exterior that in reality only flourished inside the museum walls - a ruin of a tropical colonial mirage. The natural history museum transformed from a science laboratory to a monument to the encyclopaedic urge to taxonomize all things under colonial rule - nature, peoples, culture.

16.00 - 18.00: Workshop in Room 2A50

The second part of the lecture presents the online recipe universe gardenblues[dot]net created by Semine Long-Callesen, Nany Valladarea, and Agnes Cameron. Through cooking for each other, the three friends found that Honduran and Malaysian cuisine surprisingly shared overlapping flavours. Together, they modelled a recipe universe based on an affective landscape. Participants will be introduced to the recipe universe and encouraged to make a small video based on food and memory 🌱🌱

Hope to see you there!

some snippets from today’s code poetry workshop celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2025 ✨ thanks to all who participated!