Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>we want to draw your attention and invite you to participate to the
<br>workshop: /Commoning Design and Designing Commons/, which will take
<br>place at the next Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2020
<br>"Participation(s) Otherwise", in Colombia (Manizales).
<br>
<br>In this workshop, we aim to explore the relevance of the /commons /(as
<br>an objective) and /commoning/ (as a way of doing and being) for
<br>Participatory Design activities, especially for those that aim seriously
<br>and critically at supporting sustainable futures for all (not only
<br>humans). There seems to currently be a lack of infrastructures to
<br>cultivate and care for commoning approaches. The available technologies,
<br>spaces and organization principles are mainly focused in dealing with
<br>scarcity and private property. There is a need to look for broader
<br>spectrum issues, not to run the risk of making it too easy to abuse
<br>resources, too difficult to make contributions, or embrace pluralities.
<br>Furthermore, issues of passing on ‘best practices’ related to commoning
<br>seem to always pose challenges. The need to connect commoning practices
<br>to the variety of cooperative subjects transforming our society is also
<br>urgent [20]. Based on the above, we seek contributions that highlight,
<br>reflect and raise awareness around some of these questions:
<br>
<br> * How can we design better infrastructures and frameworks that enable,
<br> mediate, protect, and foster the emerging and increasingly complex
<br> commoning practices?
<br> * What new design vocabulary, principles, policies, guidelines, and
<br> practices are needed to contribute to co-designing commons? How to
<br> connect this vocabulary with the one of feminism, environmentalism,
<br> indigenous movements, and the other transformative movements
<br> populating our common world?
<br> * How to articulate collaborative practices with sharing resources in
<br> the long run? What kind of alliances need to be made? Which ones
<br> should be unmade?
<br> * How to deal with the contradictions that arise from cultivating
<br> commons in capitalist societies and in individualistic cultures?
<br> * What is to be learned from activist commoners globally already
<br> experimenting with and applying new practices of commoning?
<br> * What other commons-based practices can we learn from indigenous
<br> knowledge and sharing traditions?
<br>
<br>Our intention is to continue ongoing efforts to link discussions and
<br>research done in a commoning framework to collaborative practices found
<br>in design around (more established) human but also (emergent) planet
<br>centred design, participatory design and open design, and in line with
<br>the PDC2020 theme, for Participation(s) otherwise.
<br>
<br>*How to participate:*
<br>Interested participants can send a brief position paper reflecting on a
<br>current project or case on the theme /commons/commoning/ and
<br>/participatory design/ (1 A4 page case/project presentation, in PDF, to
<br>be extended if accepted to workshop) to both:
<br>Joanna (jsaa@itu.dk) and Giacomo (gipo@itu.dk), with the e-mail subject:
<br>"PDC2020: Commoning Design WS"
<br>
<br>Deadline for position papers is *30th March*
<br>Selected participants will be informed by *15th April*
<br>The full-day workshop will be held on *15th or 16th June* (tbc soon on
<br>website)
<br>
<br>*Workshop organizers:*
<br>- Andrea Botero, Aalto University, Finland/Universidad de los Andes –
<br>Colombia
<br>- Sanna Marttila, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
<br>- Giacomo Poderi, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
<br>- Joanna Saad-Sulonen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
<br>- Anna Seravalli, Malmö University, Sweden
<br>- Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University, Denmark
<br>- Frederick M.C van Amstel, UTFPR, Brazil
<br>
<br>Read more about the workshop at:
<br>https://blogit.itu.dk/commoning/commoning-design-workshop-pdc2020/
<br>For more information on PDC2020 "Participation(s) Otherwise", visit:
<br>http://www.pdc2020.org/
<br>
<br>
<br>Best regards,
<br>Giacomo
<br>
<br>--
<br>Giacomo Poderi
<br>/Assistant Professor/
<br>IT University of Copenhagen, Digital Design Department.
<br>Rued Langgaards Vej 7, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark.
<br>
<br>/The Long Now of the Commons/ (17/10/2019) Event Report available here
<br>.
<br>Latest publication: Sustaining platforms as commons
<br>.
<br>/Codesign/ 15(3).
<br>Editorial board member of /Tecnoscienza - Italian Journal of Science and
<br>Technology Studies/
<br>.
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