Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop

University of Birmingham

Co-organised by the Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network and ‘Imagining Wellbeing’ researchers at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing.

Digital infrastructures organise our everyday lives in cities, communities, workplaces, and our real-world social networks. As urban spaces become increasingly digitised, we now have to build our mental health on and with this scaffolding; our experiences of mental distress and mental illness are caused, exacerbated, supported and even treated in the virtual world.  This workshop invites people from a range of social and disciplinary backgrounds to explore impacts of the digital on our physical and psychological environment. These will include: <ul><li>How can we mitigate the harm caused by overreliance on digital infrastructures?</li><li>What can be done to challenge platitudes around digital support and its invasive surveillance?</li><li>Can we collectively explore online learning and learn to navigate space with digital tools?</li><li>How do digital innovations affect or attack human creativity, and what can we do to address this?</li><li>What alternatives to accepted methods of technological engagement can we use or develop?</li></ul> We will hear from experts working across related areas (including Dr Sophie King-Hill and Jwana Aziz), reflect on participants’ lived realities, and introduce creative approaches that explore mental wellbeing in a digital world.

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