Session Date/Time:

Monday, April 21st @ 6:00 PM EST

Recording also provided.

This session highlights the potential of past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society. Sometimes, these low-tech solutions can be copied without any changes. More often, interesting possibilities arise when you combine old technology with new knowledge and new materials, or when you apply old concepts and traditional knowledge to modern technology.

Rather than advocating for a return to the past, Kris De Decker from Low-tech Magazine demonstrates that technology can evolve in many directions.

Kris De Decker is the author of Low-tech Magazine, an online publication that refuses to assume that
every problem has a high-tech solution. Since 2018, Low-tech Magazine runs on a self-hosted, solar
powered server, and since 2019 it is also available in print.
De Decker also wrote for the Demand Centre at Lancaster University (UK), which researches energy
demand in relation to social practices, and is the co-founder of the Human Power Plant, an art project that
investigates the possibilities of human power production in a modern society.
Before the creation of Low-tech Magazine in 2007, De Decker was reporting on cutting-edge science and
technology as a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines. He was born in Belgium and lives in
Spain.