2025 Annual Meeting
Imaginaries and Assemblages of Ageing Futures
| Date: | 24 & 25 September 2025 |
| Venue: | KTH Royal Institute of Technology/ Digital Futures Osquars backe 5 114 28 Stockholm Sweden |
The 2025 Meeting Theme: Imaginaries and Assemblages of Ageing Futures
As a consequence of rapid development of artificial intelligence and datafication in the context of health, care and education, new imaginaries and expectations towards technological artefacts and systems shape the socio-technical imaginaries of ageing and later life. These imaginaries vary from techno-optimism of healthy and active ageing to more critical and reflective approaches that draw attention to social, cultural, political, historical and geographical impacts of the uptake of AI. Socio-gerontechnologists, social scientists and other researchers studying digitalisation and datafication of society are increasingly involved in technical developments, while engineers and data scientists are also required to evaluate the societal impact of technologies driven by AI and machine learning.
Social and cultural gerontology and related disciplines have traditionally drawn attention to embeddedness of values, ideals and concepts of ageing in datafied futures, whereas data-driven approaches often aim to accelerate the datafication from the systems perspective. In the context of datafied societies, embracing dialogues between these approaches can enrich the knowledge and understanding of ageing futures and contribute to more socially conscious technological development. Against this background, this event aims to raise awareness of the potentials and challenges – the imaginaries and assemblages – of interdisciplinary research in the field of Socio-gerontechnology. It also aims to share transformative knowledge that can contribute to policy and technological development for ageing futures in datafied societies.
Programme
We are looking forward to an exciting programme with more than 40 paper and poster presentations. You can download the preliminary programme here.
Registration
The conference fee is 40 EUR (20 EUR reduced fee), but it is free for members of the Socio-gerontechnology Network (you can still purchase a membership here, which will give you free access to this year’s conference). You can make the appropriate choice during the registration process. Your registration includes attendance at the conference, as well as coffee during both days. The conference dinner on the evening of 24TH September is not included in the conference fee, but you can purchase it for 60 EUR before the dinner.
Please use this link to register for the conference.
Hotel recommendations
There are many hotels in the city of Stockholm with the representation of all kinds of accommodations. You can choose from large international hotel chains to smaller local hotels or hostels. To assist you with the search, we have made a list of some hotel recommendations close to the venue, in the city center.
The Venue
Digital Futures is a cross-disciplinary research center that explores and develops digital technologies. Digital Futures is jointly established by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. The venue is located at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology main campus at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (Osquars backe 5, 2nd floor). The venue can be accessed with a metro (red line, Tekniska Högskolan) and several busses.
https://www.kth.se/en/abe/skolan-for-arkitektur-och-samhallsbyggnad-1.871135
https://www.kth.se/en/om/kontakt/campus/kth-campus-1.640118
Local Organising Team
Sanna Kuoppamäki
Magdalena Kania-Lundholm
Björn Fischer