News & Events
Events
February 2026
Information and communication technology has undergone dramatic developments over the last two decades. Increasing interconnectedness has led to more self-organized public debates, platforms, and their algorithms have gained new power over discourse,
Diffusion models have transformed generative modelling for images and text, built on a simple principle: progressively destroy structure by adding noise, then train a neural network to reverse the process. Starting from pure noise, the learned revers
Decarbonisation will reshape global energy ownership, yet most assessments focus solely on stranded fossil assets and their direct operators, not the ultimate owners who bear economic exposure. Here, we link asset-level data for power plants, oil and
March 2026
Mycelium Bernd Koller’s work Mycelium, consisting of graphics and objects, dates back to a study residency in Jingdezhen, China, in 2012, where the first ink drawings of tree fungi were created. Like fungi growing from mycelium, these ideas nee
April 2026
Rethinking Human Capital: The Past and Future of Work There are many uncertainties about what the future of work will look like. What changes will new technologies bring? Will our workforce be able to adapt to the advances of AI? Which cities are bes
May 2026
Participation in DIS master classes is by invitation only.