The Glass Room Community Edition

Due to high demand from visitors to the large glass rooms in London, New York, and San Francisco, who also wanted to set up similar exhibitions in their cities, we have created two new Community editions.

These slimmed down, portable versions come in a lightweight and adaptable format that can be set up in a variety of different spaces from libraries and schools, to conferences, tech hubs, and even metro stations. In total, we have hosted 471 Glass Room events in 61 countries around the world and editions are available in English, Armenian, Albanian, Bosnian, Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Georgian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Nepali, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese with more languages coming soon

The Glass Room Misinformation Edition

In this exhibition we explore how social media and the web have changed the way we read information and react to it. Learn why finding “fake news” is not as easy as it sounds, and how the term “fake news” is as much a problem as the news itself. You can dive into the world of deep fakes, which are now so realistic, they are virtually impossible to detect. You can find out how social media platforms are designed to keep us hooked and how they can be used to change our minds. For more information, visit the Misinformation Edition page.

This project is conducted with our partners International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and Save the Children Italy. The project is funded by the European Commission.

The Glass Room IoT Edition

What is personal data in an age when data is everything but personal? Websites, apps, social media and ‘smart’ devices all thrive on the same thing – data. Not just any data, but our data.

The Glass Room IoT Edition is a pop-up exhibition that explores how society is dealing with the growing dependency on data and technology, and the normalization of monitoring and surveillance. It aims to engage visitors to think more critically about their devices and interactions with technology, as well as the mechanisms and companies that create the environment of those technologies.

What's In the IoT Box?

The exhibition set features interactive apps, posters, displays and a takeaway for visitors. For more information and images, click here to find out exactly what’s included. There are interactive elements like our Fake or Real game, which lets players guess which hi-tech devices – from self-propelled baby strollers to robotic bees – are real and which are fake. Two of the large-scale posters explore the companies behind the everyday technologies that we use like Alphabet and Facebook, and challenge visitors to think about how much data they give way through all their activities in their “Data Day”.

This project is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

The Data Detox Kit

The Data Detox Kit offers everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you. Available to be distributed as a print-out or shared virtually, the kit accompanies all the community edition exhibitions. The Data Detox Kit allows visitors to go home with the information and tools needed to empower themselves to interact with the technology in their daily lives. For more information, visit the Data Detox Kit website.

This project is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).