Dear Colleagues,
Friendly reminder: On behalf of the SEEKCommons Project, which is funded
by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), we would like to invite
you to our next community call:
Friday, June 6
6:00 p.m. CET / 12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST
Via Zoom
In NSF SEEKCommons, we work in a distributed network of STS researchers,
OS practitioners, and socio-environmental researchers to promote science
and technology commons for participative socio-environmental research.
Our call series offers an opportunity to discuss the possibilities of
the commons as a governance framework, with speakers presenting on its
challenges, benefits, lessons learned, and the uncharted possibilities
for “open technologies.”
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FRI 6 JUN 2025 - 6:00 PM (CET) / 12:00 PM (EST) / 9:00 AM (PST)
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This month’s Community Call topic:
“What does flourishing look like for scientific communities and
discoveries? Commons, Salons and Flourishing Studies” with Ryan
McGranaghan
What does flourishing look like for scientists, science communities, and
society at large? Flourishing certainly involves pushing the frontiers
of scientific discovery - frontiers that increasingly lie at the
intersections of disciplines, communities, and worldviews. Meeting these
challenges demands not only new technical approaches from data science
and open science, but also new modes of collaboration, stewardship, and
care. These are fundamentally socio-technical questions, and they
require us to rethink how we build science together. The idea of the
commons offers a powerful lens through which to understand - and
reimagine - our current struggles around data , knowledge, and
collaboration. While the theory and practice of "knowledge commons" is
still emerging, it provides language and structure to ask key questions:
Who participates in knowledge creation? What values underlie our
infrastructures? How do we govern and steward these shared spaces? In
this talk, the speaker will share how they are attempting to build
knowledge commons within NASA science, through efforts in knowledge
representation and community interactions, altogether in an ethos of
open science. So, it will, in part, be about the nuanced, messy, ongoing
work of building knowledge infrastructure and knowledge communities. But
the commons is more than infrastructure - it also prompts a deeper,
collective question: What are we to and for each other, as scientists
for, co-creators of, and participants in society? In the second half of
the talk, the speaker will invite us to explore the emerging terrain of
flourishing as a dimension of science. We will explore the landscape of
what flourishing looks like in the realm of scholarship and spark
conversation towards a (new) field of flourishing studies. This is an
immense topic, worth holding in many hands. So, this talk will
ultimately be a call toward collaboration and collectivity, and the
speaker will close by sharing structures they have created to explore
flourishing.
The series is open to public participation, and registration is
required: https://bit.ly/3YQBcPf
Complete details can be found in our June 6 Community Call Flyer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T1DTqn8agLQcY04VM2evznPU3-Cgx57C/view
For more info about the series, visit:
https://seekcommons.org/community-calls.html
We hope you can join us!
Warm regards,
The NSF SEEKCommons Project
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