Seda Gürses and Femke Snelting join Deradicalizing the City to speak about their work with The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists that they run together with Miriyam Aouragh and Helen Pritchard. Their work is informed by feminisms, queer theory, computer science, intersectionality, anti-coloniality, disability studies, historical materialism and artistic practice. TITiPI generates currently inexistant vocabularies, methodologies and imaginaries for holding accountable tech companies and public institutions that have now become co-responsible for providing healthcare and education but also border management, targeted surveillance and policing. We work with communities to articulate, activate and re-imagine the way that "Digital Transformation" impacts the capacity of these institutions to adequately serve their mandate in different geographies and power relations.

Seda Gürses is an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management (TPM), and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven. Her current research focuses on questions around how changes in the business of computing and the production of software lead to our current day computational infrastructures (cloud computing and mobile devices as their accessories) concentrated in the hands of "big tech" companies. These computational infrastructures have varying effects including constraining the protections afforded by Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and the increased adoption of forms of operational control using optimization that comes to fundamentally transform organizations, both of which are topics of research in her group.

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, feminisms, and free software. In various constellations she works on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture. With Helen Pritchard and Jara Rocha, she activates The Underground Division, an action-research collective that investigates technologies of subsurface rendering. With Constant, association for arts and media, she initiated collective research projects, digital tools, methods and publications (until 2021). Forthcoming publication: Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (with Jara Rocha, OHP, 2022). Femke supports artistic research at a.pass (Brussels), PhdArts (Leiden), MERIAN (Maastricht) and regularly teaches at XPUB (Rotterdam).