The winter-school Promises, Promises: A tech reality-check is organized as a pre-event of the Media Architecture Biennale 2020 that will take part in Utrecht and Amsterdam in November 23–27th 2020 around the theme #Futures Implied. It is a four-day research workshop with the ambition to do a reality-check of the intersection of technology, architecture and urban planning.

A project by Archis/VOLUME & Stephan Petermann/MANN in collaboration with Media Architecture Biennale, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; Master Digital Design Sandberg Instituut, Akademie van Bouwkunst, Design Centre Amsterdam, and Amsterdam Creative Industries Network.