Digital Culture Talks 2025

Digital technologies are transforming the way the world operates. For creative organisations and individuals, digital tools are supporting innovation, enhancing creativity and opening up new possibilities to collaborate, share, tell stories, and express ideas and profile talent. Central to this is the role of creativity and its ability to inspire, inform, and record the lives and experiences of communities and individuals across all artforms and sectors of society. 

As artists and audiences embrace new mediums and possibilities, we will explore the ways in which creativity is shaping – and being shaped by – digital tools and ask how digital tools can serve creative practices in ways that engage a variety of audiences.

Digital Culture Talks 2 will continue the focus of DCT1, providing opportunities for thought leadership key notes and panel discussions from artists, industry practices to include digital activities and technologies.  Day 1 of this 2-day conference will highlight and profile the work of creative organisations, community groups and artists using digital to improve access, inclusion and empower their local communities. We’ll also explore the opportunities and challenges of social networks and platforms.

Day 1 – Digital communities

10.30am – 12.45pm – Roundtable 1:

Digital Accessibility, Inclusion and Community

Convening, curating and enabling – community ownership, engagement and empowerment through digital.

Speakers and panellists:

Facilitated by Rob Lindsay, The Space’s Head of Programmes

• Zoe Partington – Acting CEO DaDa, Artist and Disability Consultant
• Parminder Dosanjh – Creative Director, Creative Black Country 
• Rachel Farrer – Associate Director, Cultural and Community Engagement Innovation Ecosystem, Coventry University 
• Jo Capper – Collaborative Programme Curator, Grand Union

2pm – 4.15pm  – Roundtable 2

Reducing online harms, how to make social media and online communities safer

In a world of increasingly polarised online spaces, what are the emerging trends and challenges when engaging audiences and building communities online? How can organisations and individuals best manage the risks?

Speakers and panellists:

Facilitated by John White, The Space’s Chief Operating Officer

• Catherine Allen – CEO and Lead Consultant, Limina Immersive 
• Dr Rianna Walcott – Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab.
• Haydn Corrodus – Digital & Social Media Strategist, Trainer, Speaker 
• Rowan Kerek-Robertson – Social Media Specialist  
• Charlotte Newberry -Social Media Manager, Historic Royal Palaces
• Becks Turner – Senior Social Media and Content Manager, Southbank Centre

In partnership with:

Birmingham City University

Create Central

STEAMhouse

West Midlands Combined Authority

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