

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Rewilding the Web: Diversity &  Resilience in Sociotechnical Infrastructure
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 10:00 am – Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 05:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: The internet has become a monoculture. This workshop will explore how ecological and biological insights can help inspire its revitalisationAbout this EventInspired by visions of nature as an ecosystem of self-regulating feedback loops, the 20th-century architects of the internet proposed that a perfectly interconnected world would allow free individuals to spontaneously self-organise into harmonious networks of exchange, without any need for top-down control.Fifty years later, the internet is a monoculture. Google accounts for 84% of all search queries, while 50% of cloud computing is provided by Amazon and Microsoft alone. Accordingly, technologists are increasingly calling for a ‘rewilding’ via the decentralisation of core services, in order to restore the cybernetic vision of a harmonious digital ecology. Yet if decentralisation alone were sufficient to ensure a flourishing ecosystem, then how could these tech monopolies have arisen in the first place? For the re-wilding of internet infrastructure to succeed, it must move beyond an outdated view of biological systems, which abstracts from the inherent mutability and precarity of organisms to treat them as no more than complex machines seeking a stable equilibrium. Fortunately, other philosophies of nature are available.This workshop brings together technologists, ecologists, philosophers and cultural theorists to discuss how contemporary insights from theoretical biology and ecology can provide a richer understanding of what makes for a thriving biosphere, and how this might provide inspiration for cultivating sociotechnical infrastructure that is more resilient against co-option by monopolising tendencies.Invited SpeakersOrit Halpern — Full Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures, TU DresdenRobin Berjon — Senior Fellow, Future of Technology InstituteAnil Madhavapeddy — Professor of Planetary Computing, University of CambridgeMaria Mancilla Garcia — Environmental Humanities Chair, Université Libre de BruxellesElena Rovenskaya — Program Director Advancing Systems Analysis Program, International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysisWith Funding from the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences and the Edinburgh Futures Institute.Header photo by Cameron Russell
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Edinburgh
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: 7 George Square
- **lat**: 55.9445097
- **long**: -3.1886193
- **full address**: 7 George Square, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: The University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences and the Edinburgh Futures Institue (https://allevents.in/org/the-university-of-edinburgh-school-of-philosophy-psychology-and-language-sciences-and-the-edinburgh-/27479701)

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