The Digital Paradox: Navigating Innovation and Sustainability | ZMINA:Resilience webinar #6

🌿 As digital technologies and artificial intelligence increasingly shape how we collaborate and create culture, it is essential to question not only their benefits but also their hidden costs. This capacity-building event aims to support cultural professionals in navigating the intersection of digital transformation, ecological responsibility, and global equity.

While digitalisation is often seen as a way to enable global collaboration, the environmental burden — from the extraction of rare metals to growing data centres in energy-vulnerable regions — is unevenly distributed. The rapid expansion of AI further intensifies these dynamics, raising critical geopolitical questions around dependency and digital sovereignty. In this context, can going digital be considered inherently “green”?

This training session invites participants to reflect on their own practices within this global system. We will begin with a theoretical introduction to key challenges, followed by a participatory exchange where participants share their own digital practices and explore solutions for their organisations. The goal is to equip cultural professionals with a more conscious, critical, and systemic approach to innovation.

🗣️ 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿: 𝗚𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽
Gwendolenn Sharp is the founder of The Green Room (2016), a non-profit organisation developing strategies for environmental and social change in the music sector. Author, lecturer, regular jury member. She has worked with cultural institutions, festivals and environmental NGOs in Poland, France and Tunisia and has diverse experience in project design, international cooperation and developing tailor-made tools. Gwendolenn is a Keychange alumni (2022) and a Villa Albertine Resident (2023).

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gwendolenn-sharp-53327615/

📌 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:
— Systemic Understanding: The environmental and social impacts of digital technologies and AI.
— Climate Justice: Insights into e-waste, resource extraction, and global inequalities.
— Digital Sobriety: Practical approaches to implement more ethical tech practices.
— Navigating Tensions: Tools to balance innovation with sustainability and equity in international projects.

The training session will be held in English.

📅 Wednesday, 27 May | 13:00 – 15:00 CEST 👉 registrations: https://platform.izolyatsia.org/en/events/capacity-building-webinar6/
ℹ️ For more information check out zmina.eu

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𝗭𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔:𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 is a cooperation between IZOLYATSIA (UA), Malý Berlín (SK) with support of Trans Europe Halles (SE).

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.