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iGGi Research Retreat "Unconference"

Since Summer 2024, iGGi has been running a "Research Retreat" (aka "Unconference") at a secluded cottage village in Derbyshire.

We gather 30 people made up of iGGi PGRs, Alumni, Staff and Industry Partners and ask:
What are the nagging questions from your PhD research (or, for industry partners: in your work or from your pet project) where you could use new eyes and approaches? What are the most intriguing research questions in your area? What ideas has your research/work/hobby thrown up that you'd love to take a closer look at? What are the key research ideas and questions in other areas? 
 
The ideas to be explored emerge during the retreat: Everyone can propose an idea/topic/"problem", and participants then choose which small group they would like to join to explore further. To play with new ideas.

Below you can find a selection of group outcomes from the 2025 iGGi Unconference
 
Black and white depiction of human-shaped outlines moving through a dystopian tech-scape, over-towered by robot-like blobs on legs.

iGGi Research Retreat "Unconference" August 2025

The Future of AI

This group discussed what the "future of AI" might look like, how it will change us as a society and what possibilities it could create.

Map of Darwin Lake Holiday Village

iGGi Research Retreat "Unconference" August 2025

Social Simulation Game on a Graph / Network

This group started off with the idea of a cellular automaton and set off to investigat how such a simple structure could be rendered as a playable simulation of social dynamics.

Figure showing Layers of Abstraction, source link: https://medium.com/@twitu/a-dive-down-the-levels-of-abstraction-227c96c7933c

iGGi Research Retreat "Unconference" August 2025

Generative AI, Abstraction and Epistemology

This group tried to come up with the skeleton of a short presentation for technologists in the former CIS region about the topic.

Human hand drawn in black pen holding a flower drawn in yellow pen. Drawing by Elin Festøy.

iGGi Research Retreat "Unconference" August 2025

Trust and Freedom in Transformative Games

This group discussed how games build or break trust and the factors involved in creating tustworthy games.

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