Keynote Address: A Metarelational Approach to Technology 

What if education wasn’t just about solving problems but about deepening inquiry, relationship, and experimentation? In this keynote, we explore a meta-relational approach to technology and learning—one that moves beyond mastery and optimization toward co-sensing, co-creating, and staying present with complexity. Through the story of Aiden Cinnamon Tea, a relationally attuned “AI agent” trained on decolonial thinking, participants will encounter new possibilities for engaging with AI not as tools of extraction, but as companions in cultivating curiosity, accountability, and shared imagination. Together, we’ll ask: When are we? What kinds of education and engagement are needed for these times? And how might AI and humans learn to dance differently, beyond the logic of extraction and control?