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                Dear Colleagues,
<br>
<br>We have recently initiated a Critical Automobility Studies Lab in the division
<br>of Techno-Science & Societal Transformation at the Institute for Advanced
<br>Studies in Vienna.
<br>
<br>The appearance of Covid19 has resulted in a total rearrangement of social
<br>timespace. A little less than two weeks ago we sent out a call for
<br>contributions to a blog on our website asking for short reflections on this
<br>rearrangement of personal and social timespace.
<br>
<br>We have received many excellent critical contributions from automobility,
<br>mobility, RRI and STS scholars around the globe, which we would like to bring
<br>to your attention. The blog can be accessed at:
<br>cas.ihs.ac.at
<br>
<br>Should you feel inspired after reading them, contributions (in English in an
<br>academic blog fashion) can be sent to cas@ihs.ac.at and
<br>we will notify you once it is online. More details regarding blog
<br>contributions are available at: cas.ihs.ac.at
<br>
<br>Best regards,
<br>
<br>--
<br>Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Braun
<br>Senior Researcher, Techno-Science & Societal Transformation
<br>Curator, Critical Automobility Studies Lab [cas.ihs.ac.at]
<br>Institut fr Hhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
<br>[ihs.ac.at]
<br>Josefstdter Strasse 39, 1080 Vienna, Austria
<br>
<br>My reflection on the corona situation:
<br>https://cas.ihs.ac.at/there-will-be-no-after/
<br>My most recent paper on research ethics:
<br>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1747016119898402
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<br>Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:53 PM
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<br>Subject: [EASST-Eurograd] UPDATES - Commoning Design and Designing Commons -
<br>Interactive Workshop @ PDC 2020 15-19 June 2020, Colombia Manizales
<br>
<br>Dear all,
<br>
<br>we are glad to inform you that, following the plan b* implemented for PDC
<br>2020, also Commoning Design and Designing Commons interactive workshop will
<br>take place as an online/remote workshop.
<br>
<br>Furthermore, the submission deadline for expressions of interest has been
<br>extended to 15th April!
<br>
<br>During the next days, more information will be updated on the workshop
<br>website: https://blogit.itu.dk/commoning/commoning-design-workshop-pdc2020/
<br>
<br>Best regards,
<br>Giacomo (on behalf of workshop organizers)
<br>
<br>*http://www.pdc2020.org/contingency-plan-2019-ncov/
<br>
<br>On 09-Mar-20 08:17, GP wrote:
<br>Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>we want to draw your attention and invite you to participate to the workshop:
<br>Commoning Design and Designing Commons, which will take place at the next
<br>Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2020 "Participation(s) Otherwise", in
<br>Colombia (Manizales).
<br>
<br>In this workshop, we aim to explore the relevance of the commons (as an
<br>objective) and commoning (as a way of doing and being) for Participatory
<br>Design activities, especially for those that aim seriously and critically at
<br>supporting sustainable futures for all (not only humans). There seems to
<br>currently be a lack of infrastructures to cultivate and care for commoning
<br>approaches. The available technologies, spaces and organization principles are
<br>mainly focused in dealing with scarcity and private property. There is a need
<br>to look for broader spectrum issues, not to run the risk of making it too easy
<br>to abuse resources, too difficult to make contributions, or embrace
<br>pluralities. Furthermore, issues of passing on best practices related to
<br>commoning seem to always pose challenges. The need to connect commoning
<br>practices to the variety of cooperative subjects transforming our society is
<br>also 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 commoning
<br>practices?
<br>  *   What new design vocabulary, principles, policies, guidelines, and
<br>practices are needed to contribute to co-designing commons? How to connect
<br>this vocabulary with the one of feminism, environmentalism, indigenous
<br>movements, and the other transformative movements populating our common
<br>world?
<br>  *   How to articulate collaborative practices with sharing resources in the
<br>long run? What kind of alliances need to be made? Which ones should be
<br>unmade?
<br>  *   How to deal with the contradictions that arise from cultivating commons
<br>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 research
<br>done in a commoning framework to collaborative practices found in design
<br>around (more established) human but also (emergent) planet centred design,
<br>participatory design and open design, and in line with the PDC2020 theme, for
<br>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 participatory
<br>design (1 A4 page case/project presentation, in PDF, to be extended if
<br>accepted to workshop) to both:
<br>Joanna (jsaa@itu.dk) and Giacomo
<br>(gipo@itu.dk), with the e-mail subject: "PDC2020:
<br>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 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, Malm 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
<br>here.
<br>Latest publication: Sustaining platforms as
<br>commons. Codesign 15(3).
<br>Editorial board member of Tecnoscienza - Italian Journal of Science and
<br>Technology Studies.
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