Could more knowledge about emerging technologies give trade unions more influence on working conditions and enhance workplace democracy? Could seemingly restrictive technologies be designed through engaging a broader variety of people in the design process? These questions were central in the 1980s research project UTOPIA, in which the Nordic Graphic Workers’ Union together with researchers focused on how to actively influence the digital transformation of graphic work as computers were introduced in newspaper production.
Issue title: Pedagogies of machine learning.
This text is a contribution to the digital atlas "Schools of Departure", a research project by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.