HDSC2026 Clouds to Commons Public Program

HDSC2026 Clouds to Commons Public Program
Name HDSC2026 Clouds to Commons Public Program
Location NDSM
Date 2026/07/13-2026/07/23
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Type HDSC2026
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“Cloud computing” has become the key component of today’s digital landscape. "The Cloud" suggests something immaterial, light, abstract, and placeless: data floating through the air. But this image overshadows the material reality of our digital habits: deep-sea internet cables, resource guzzling server farms, precious metals mined to produce chips and more “stuff” to make up what we now call “the cloud”. The tangible “stuff” that connects computing to everyday reality is largely owned, governed and designed by corporate big tech companies that make their decisions based on profit maximisation.

How can we bring sustainability, social equity, and democracy to the center of how these everyday infrastructures are built, developed, and maintained? Can we make self-hosting more accessible? Can we imagine alternative internet structures? Can we bring "the Cloud" back down to earth?

These questions are at the heart of the HDSC2026 Public Program: Clouds to Commons!

HDSC2026 runs from July 13 to 23 with an intensive hands-on program together with a group of 30+ participants. The public program aims to contextualise the Summer Camp and open up the reflection and processes of its hands-on trajectory to a wider audience. If you are curious about H&D's activities but never joined any, this is a great starting point. Join us for talks, performances, a field trip, a meal, and more, let's connect, start conversations, deconstruct and re-imagine "the Cloud"!

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Monday 13 July 8—11pm Clouds to Commons: Kick-off Program

The H&D Summer Camp 2026 will kick off with a night of talks and performance to dive into the topic of Clouds to Commons. Let's get inspired, curious, critical and build a fertile grounds for the next 10 days of the Summer camp with Marloes de Valk, Sondi and Marcell Mars.

Wednesday 15 July 5-7pm Bart's fieldtrip in NDSM

Bart is a longterm artist/ activist with a studio present at NDSM. He will take us on a tour in the local area dissecting language and strategies by real estate developers and city council. The aim is to break down the narrative in order to reclaim it on our own conditions.

Saturday 18 July 1.30—3.30pm Open lunch!!

Drop-in for a joyful lunch to get a taste of HDSC2026!

Monday 20 July 7—9pm "Server Tempeh" Dinner

Join a delicious dinner prepared by artist Kimberley Cosmilla with yeast.computer's Server Tempeh!

Thursday 23 July 6—11pm Clouds to Commons: Closing Program

This evening is the final public event of the H&D Summer Camp, so we've put together a full program. Starting at 18.00, visitors can already join a printing performance and exhibition where the Summer Camp participants will be sharing their processes and outcomes of the last two weeks. This sharing moment will continue after the Hmm event. H&D and The Hmm put together the evening talk program, where we will expore hands-on-hacking, collective learning, speculative fabulation, and big tech resistance with six artists, designers, researchers, and makers: Kexin Hong, Amy Gowen, Martha Dimitratou, Livio Liechti, Hicham El Kaddioui, and Martyna Pekala.

This program is kindly supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts