Want to join an event?
Email The Plant or use our Contact Form to register. Events are open to all staff & students of FASoS, unless otherwise marked. Some events may occur as parts of courses – read the description to find out more!
AI Image Generation: Art, Literature & Technoscience
9:30 – 12:00
BA Arts & Culture Students
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
Meet and Greet with Colleagues from Cyprus
15:30 – 17:00
Drop-In
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
AI for Higher Education 1.0 with Katja and Flora
11:00 – 13:00
All Educators
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
Conference on Human Factors in New Technologies (HiNT)
9:30 -17:30
Open to All
Grote Gracht 76
AI for Higher Education 2.0 with Katja and Flora
11:00 – 13:00
All Educators
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
Amplifying Audio & Video in Research and Teaching
11:00 – 14:00
All Researchers
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
Social Media & the Dead: Practicing Digital Ethnography
11:00 – 13:00
MA CAST Students
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
FASoS Robots and Care Aesthetics
13:30 – 15:00
FASoS Researchers
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
Exploring Generative AI with Denise Petzold, Sjoerd Stoffels, Arnoud Wils & Jay Simons
11:00 – 14:00
Open to All
Grote Gracht 76, The Plant
ARCHIVE OF PAST EVENTS
Mar 11 During the Experience Day, students had the opportunity to work in groups to design a simple problem-solving machine and algorithm using The Plant’s Arduino kits.
Mar 11 The loop doesn’t end with an AI output. This workshop focuses on the human factor: we’ll devise strategies to break this dangerous reinforcement loop.
Mar 11 Students from UM’s excellence programme joined our student assistant, Klaudia, for a follow-along video editing lecture using CapCut.
Mar 4 Exploring how optimization goals and the very architecture of AI models can amplify, distort, and even create new forms of bias.
Feb 25 This workshop reveals how the act of “ordering” data encodes societal prejudices and power structures, setting the stage for downstream harm.
Feb 7 Students of the BA Digital Society programme had the opportunity to design a simple problem-solving machine and algorithm using The Plant’s Arduino kits.
Feb 6 The Plant invites participants to imagine and co-create hopeful, sustainable futures built on collective agency and structural transformation.
Feb 3 The Plant assisted in hosting several workshops on AI for secondary school students as an introduction to BA Digital Society.
Jan 15 Colleagues from across Maastricht University met at the first 2026 UM-XR Community Event to share projects, connect faculties and spark new collaborations in Extended Reality.
