In late 2025, Seb shared his research on agroecology and digital technologies across two events focused on reimagining the future of agriculture beyond dominant techno-capitalist models.

On 6 November, Seb was invited by the Centre for Climate IT at ITU Copenhagen to present his work on digital agroecology. Drawing on fieldwork with 11 small-scale agroecological farms, the talk challenged the assumption that commercial agri-tech naturally supports sustainable farming. Instead, farmers described how existing tools often poorly support working with nature, while creating hidden labour through complex data practices needed for coordination, regulation, and learning. Seb presented emerging design principles and opportunities for technologies better aligned with agroecological values, alongside a broader call to imagine digital agriculture beyond capitalism and towards technological sovereignty rooted in farmer-led grassroots networks.

This conversation continued on 10 December at a workshop titled “Designing for Refusal: Fabulating Neo-Luddism and Parallel Presents in Agricultural Autonomy” at Chalmers University of Technology. In the morning, Seb spoke about his research with UK agroecological farmers, followed by Jonas Bååth from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, who presented work on alternative local food markets on Facebook. After introductions to Luddism and to fabulation as a design method, participants worked in small groups to design and prototype “alternative presents” for food and farming systems that resist mainstream technological trajectories.

The resulting artefacts explored themes such as heritage and seed saving, more-than-human nature restoration, and foraging- and conservation-based local economies. The workshop also produced a shared set of commitments for using fabulation as a design method - grounding speculative design in care, refusal, and situated agricultural practice.

Together, these events highlight growing interest in more critical, imaginative, and grounded approaches to designing technologies for food and farming.