Women Connected: Community Brain

 9 December 2026, 15:30–17:00

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 9 December 2026, 15:30–17:00

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Community Brain

What happens when we approach AI not only as a technology, but through stories, art, women’s perspectives, and the relationships in which knowledge gains meaning? How might AI be designed differently when collective intelligence, community ownership, and context are treated not as secondary considerations, but as starting points?

Women Connected presents the outcome of its fellowship research: Community Brain, a concept that raises questions about language models, data, origins, ownership, correction, and context. Drawing on Women Connected’s community-driven approach, in which women’s stories and perspectives play a central role, the research also explored the extent to which AI makes space for these perspectives and stories, or instead renders them invisible, distorts, or excludes them.

During the event, Women Connected will share its research journey, findings, and unresolved dilemmas. In small breakout groups, participants will join women from the Women Connected community to discuss which questions, boundaries, and conditions deserve further exploration. The programme lasts 60 minutes in total and concludes with a plenary session.

Doors open 15:30h
Program starts at 16:00h
RSVP: https://forms.gle/JptauFx3udTd3uQ7A.

Community Brain emerged from a fellowship offered to Women Connected by V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media.

About Women Connected

Women Connected is the largest performing arts network for women in Rotterdam. ‘We come from all over the world. In Rotterdam, we are connected, share our stories and perform in the theater to inspire and motivate other women. Our performances are about life, love, fears and desires. Unique and universal.

We believe in societies where women of all cultures, generations and backgrounds are empowered with equal opportunities to grow and contribute. We educate women and give them the confidence to pass their experience on. We develop new genres and methodologies to work with large groups in different locations and create high quality productions for a general audience. We share knowledge and expertise with partners and peers, on a national and international level.’