如果技术是由社区构建，而非由少数公司控制，它会是什么样子？这个问题正是今年 Mozilla Festival（Mozilla 盛会）的核心，该活动将于 10 月 28 日至 30 日重返巴塞罗那。
What would technology look like if it were built by communities rather than controlled by a handful of companies? That question sits at the heart of this year’s Mozilla Festival, which returns to Barcelona from October 28 to 30.
本届盛会由非营利组织 Mozilla 基金会与巴塞罗那市政府共同主办，这是该活动连续第二年在巴塞罗那举行，作为 Open Tech Week（开放技术周）的一部分。
Organised by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation with the City of Barcelona, the festival is taking place in the city for the second consecutive year as part of Open Tech Week.
预计将有超过 2000 名技术专家、艺术家和活动家齐聚 Recinte Fabra i Coats——一座改建为艺术中心的前纺织厂，参加 200 多场演讲、研讨会和艺术装置展示。
More than 2,000 technologists, artists and activists are expected at Recinte Fabra i Coats, a former textile factory turned arts centre, for more than 200 talks, workshops and art installations.
今年的主题是 “Wilding”（返野/野性生长），呼吁技术以更开放、共享和社区主导的方式发展。
This year’s theme is “Wilding”, a call for technology to grow in a more open, shared and community-led way.
“当今技术由一个封闭、受控且往往具有掠夺性的系统驱动，而 Mozilla Festival 的存在正是为了成为其对立面，”盛会总监 Zeina Abi Assy 表示。
“Technology today is fueled by a closed, controlled, and often extractive system, and Mozilla Festival exists to be a counterpoint,” said Zeina Abi Assy, the festival’s director.
主舞台汇聚了在行动主义、技术和文化领域工作的人士。去年因总统特赦获释出狱的埃及活动家 Alaa Abd El-Fattah 将与社交网络 UpScrolled 创始人 Issam Hijazi、普林斯顿大学教授 Ruha Benjamin 同台演讲。
The main stage brings together people working across activism, technology, and culture. Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who was released from prison last year following a presidential pardon, will speak alongside Issam Hijazi, founder of social network UpScrolled, and Ruha Benjamin, a professor at Princeton University.
其他演讲者还包括梅隆基金会主席 Elizabeth Alexander、发明家兼作家 Gitanjali Rao、艺术家 Stephanie Dinkins。诗人兼喜剧演员 ALOK Vaid-Menon 将担任主持人。
Other speakers include Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation; inventor and author Gitanjali Rao; and artist Stephanie Dinkins. Poet and comedian ALOK Vaid-Menon will host.
议程将探讨每一代人继承的技术、AI 引发的社会张力，以及如何围绕关怀与共享权力构建数字工具。
The programme will examine the technology each generation inherits, the social tensions created by AI, and ways to build digital tools around care and shared power.
但盛会也将这些问题延伸至会议舞台之外，引入艺术家和音乐家，共同探讨谁控制数字系统、这些系统保存了谁的故事。
But the festival also takes those questions beyond the conference stage, bringing artists and musicians into the conversation about who controls digital systems and whose stories they preserve.
其中一场由苏丹音乐制作人 Khaled Alsedeg 主导的环节，将探讨数字档案如何帮助保存苏丹的音乐传统。
One session, led by Sudanese music producer Khaled Alsedeg, explores how digital archives can help preserve Sudan’s musical traditions.
另一个装置作品《野生地块》（Wild Lots）利用城市数据，设想将城市中的空置土地归还自然。该项目今年早些时候在纽约的开放数据周上首次展出。
Another installation, Wild Lots, uses city data to imagine vacant urban land returning to nature. The project was first presented at New York’s Open Data Week earlier this year.
年轻人也将有自己的活动安排。在一场活动中，13至17岁的青少年将进行角色扮演，测试针对人工智能、网络平台和心理健康相关规则的设想。另一场工作坊则基于一份与冈比亚女孩共同开发、并为她们而设的人工智能指南。
Young people will have their own programme, too. In one session, teenagers aged 13 to 17 will role-play and test ideas for rules governing AI, online platforms and mental health. Another workshop draws on an AI guide developed with and for girls in The Gambia.
“野化很简单：技术的未来不应生长在由少数几家公司拥有的单一栽培中，”Mozilla基金会首席执行官纳比哈·赛义德说。
“Wilding is simple: the future of tech shouldn’t grow in a monoculture owned by a handful of companies,” said Nabiha Syed, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation.
去年的节日吸引了来自79个国家的约2200人参加。在那届活动中，Mozilla与巴塞罗那签署协议，将该活动留在该市举办至2027年。
Last year’s festival attracted around 2,200 people from 79 countries. During that edition, Mozilla and Barcelona signed an agreement to keep the event in the city through 2027.
该节日也反映了Mozilla为更开放的互联网所开展的更广泛运动。今年早些时候，该基金会支持了纽约的一场海报宣传活动，批评埃隆·马斯克和马克·扎克伯格。
The festival also reflects Mozilla’s broader campaign for a more open internet. Earlier this year, the foundation backed a poster campaign in New York criticising Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
对Mozilla而言，挑战不仅仅是批评技术领域的权力集中，而是把想要构建不同事物的人们聚集在一起——从社区拥有的数字工具，到在大型平台触及范围之外保存文化的方式。
For Mozilla, the challenge is not simply to criticise the concentration of power in technology, but to bring together people who want to build something different, from community-owned digital tools to ways of preserving culture beyond the reach of major platforms.