Disruption Network Lab

Sharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US). Moderated by Magnus Ag (Journalist, Human Rights Advocate, Founder of Bridge Figures, DK/NO). In recent decades, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has...

Award-winning investigative journalist and author Tom Burgis discusses the opportunities that the pandemic has provided for kleptocracy to flourish. Across the world, we've seen dramatic increases in government...

Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell & Rima Sghaier discuss the role of whistleblowers during COVID-19 and the importance of exposing the truth during the pandemic. The work of whistleblowers is central to denounce power...

In this conversation between Wu Ming 1 and Florian Cramer, QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as games and a new kind of cults. By...

This keynote conversation brings together Eileen Chubb, a former care assistant in the UK who became a whistleblower and later a campaigner, and Erika Cheung, one of the key whistleblowers in the Theranos scandal and...

This panel brings together four experts in the field of technology, human rights, investigative journalism and law to address the importance of transparency, government accountability and media freedom through the case...

Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London. Her practice focuses on defending cases for freedom of expression before national and international courts...

Helen O'Connor, National Health Service nurse in the United Kingdom for many years and today GMB NHS Union Organiser will give a critical perspective on the UK health care system and the measures that need to be taken...

This talk brings into dialogue different modalities of fighting speculation, sharing tactics of resistance in the political and media landscape, and presenting concrete interventions in the urban territory of Berlin and...

This keynote event brings in conversation Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, and Justus von Daniels, Editor-in-Chief of CORRECTIV, to discuss how civil society can be directly...

Volkan Sayman from Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen discusses Berlin's housing crisis as a result of the privatisation and financialisation of housing, highlights major milestones of the expropriation campaign, and gives...

In major cities across the world local working and middle class citizens are being pushed out of their very own homes – because living in them has become unaffordable. Join us for a discussion between PUSH: the film...

In this panel Sam Leon from "Global Witness" and Karina Shedrofsky from "OCCRP" analyse how money laundering, organised crime and corruption interfere and influence real estate, addressing respectively the contexts of...

This keynote panel focuses on two different but related investigations in Berlin and Barcelona on real estate ownership and aggressive international investors. https://disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed

AN AUTOPSY OF ONLINE LOVE, LABOUR, SURVEILLANCE AND ELECTRICITY/ENERGY Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, ES) in conversation with Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founding Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Our so-called...