HETEROTOPIA LAB
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY / DIGITAL CULTURE / COLLABORATIVE EXPERIMENT
An experimental innovation zone for speculative design and prototyping. Through hackathons, workshops, and collaborative experiments, this lab explores technology as a cultural tool—imagining alternative futures and testing bold ideas before they become reality.
2.1
Interactive Music: Peking Opera Mixer via NFC by Race Li
East London (UK), 24th August 2025
This interactive mixer invites the audience to blend different tones of Peking Opera with a contemporary twist. The installation was enabled through NFC, allowing participants to access and play with the soundscape effortlessly. Race Li is the founder of Magipop, creator of a popular AI music app, a sci-fi author, and an electronic music enthusiast who values playful and collaborative creativity.
Race Li is the founder of Magipop, creator of a popular AI music app, a sci-fi author, and an electronic music enthusiast who values playful and collaborative creativity.
2.2
Interactive VR: Tonghai Gaotai 2066, interactive VR by Wanrong Zhu
Fire (London, UK), 17th August 2025
Tonghai Gaotai 2066 is an immersive VR interactive performance that fuses Chinese intangible cultural heritage with advanced immersive technologies. Viewers are invited to enter the work through VR and experience its world firsthand.
Elf Wanrong Zhu is a London-based multimedia artist who blends fashion, AI, and cross-cultural aesthetics to explore human emotion. She is a recipient of the SOLO AI ,24 Award.
2.3
Screening: The Call & Art x AI
Bloomsbury (London, UK), 19th August 2025
The Call & Art × AI shares findings from Serpentine’s Choral Data “Trust” Experiment, a pioneering project that explores collective data governance in AI through a case study with fifteen UK choirs. The initiative aims to promote data as a public good and broaden participation in AI development.
Jennifer Ding, a member of the project team, is the founder of London Data Week and a former Senior Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute. She specializes in AI and has experience spanning startups and Fortune 50 projects.
4.4
Interactive Tarot and Planet Talk by Yifeng Wei
Fire (London, UK), 17th August 2025
Interactive Tarot & Planet Talk is a technological divination experience using the cybernetic-themed tarot deck HEXEN 2.0 and live audience participation. The session explores planetary-scale technological futures and invites alternative ways of imagining technology and society.
Yifeng Wei is a core member of WeKnow Society, a PhD candidate in Digital Culture, and a finalist for the 2022 and 2025 Hyundai Blue Prize.
4.5
AI Video and Filmmaking Workshop
Kings College London (London, UK), 22nd August 2025
This AI video and filmmaking workshop is led by award-winning AI filmmaker Yin Ying (WaytoAGI), with support from AI creative technologist Jonathan Zhu (NeurarOck) and software engineer Yuxin Huang (Expedia). Participants learned how to use AI tools to develop and produce their own short films.
4.6
Agentic Browser Workshop
Kings College London (London, UK), 22nd August 2025
During the workshop, participants learned how to use the Fellou Agentic Browser to build workflows, manage projects, and even set up companies.
Dr. Pony Ma is an AI expert and a member of the founding team at Fellou. He holds a PhD from Tsinghua University.
Ke Bao is the founder of YDMD Studio and a creative technologist.
4.7
AI Agent Workshop Kings College London
Kings College London (London, UK), 22nd August 2025
This workshop was led by Neu-reality, a leading neuroscience education platform in China. Participants learned how to use an AI agent and explored its applications through hands-on exercises.
