Events

Weldon Library is hosting the much-lauded Glass Room exhibit. If you didn’t get a chance to explore it during Starling’s launch in October, now is your chance! The exhibit will run through April which we hope will give members of the community, and their family and friends, a chance to visit. January 23 to April 2025 Weldon […]

The Starling Centre will be hosting Paris Marx, journalist and podcast host of “Tech Won’t Save Us” and “System Crash” on 23 and 24 January. On Thursday, January 23, he will give a talk about the perils and pitfalls of artificial intelligence technologies, and on Friday, January 24, will lead a focused discussion with graduate […]

The Starling Centre seeks contributions for its Open Panel: “Just Technologies for Just Societies” at the 50th 4S Conference in Seattle this September. Imagine the synchronous movement of a flock of starlings. Murmurations are a vivid metaphor for the relationships between just societies and just technologies: complex, interwoven, and capable of reverberating across boundaries, spaces, […]

The Starling Centre invites the Western community to an informal, open forum to unpack and discuss the issues and implications of Trump 2.0. Creative Commons, FIMS & Nursing Building20 November 202412:00 to 1:30pm

Starling hosted the Glass Room at Project Satellite Space in October, with plans to install a second exhibition at Weldon Library at Western University. Listen to Dr. Joanna Redden discuss how the exhibit aims to demystify our everyday technologies.

Starling Co-Director Dr. Alissa Centivany spoke with CBC recently to discuss the implications to changes in Canada’s repair laws: “It’s really about creating a better world, a healthier planet, keeping more things out of the landfill and more money in our pockets, and just being able to exercise a little bit more autonomy about our […]