..on Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 06:09:33PM -0700, Doug Schuler wrote: > This seems very relevant to this list .... (This workshop is part of the > Communities and Technologies 2021 conference)
> > > *Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of > Technologies by Grassroots Communities. Towards a new wave of technological > activism * > > This one-day workshop aims at bringing together C&T researchers and > practitioners interested in understanding, promoting, and designing forms > of sustainable appropriation of contemporary technologies by grassroots > communities. > > This workshop welcomes contributions illustrating how technology design > researchers and activists can understand, promote, and design for > sustainable appropriation, at an empirical, technical or conceptual level: > > - Empirical cases illustrating the appropriation of existing digital > technologies by grassroots initiatives’. Contributions might outline the > role of existing technologies in infrastructuring such initiatives and > their limitations in organizing action; > - Technical descriptions of grassroots-oriented technologies and/or of > the artifact ecologies that grassroots initiatives might adopt; > - Conceptual contributions illustrating or expanding concepts, values, > tactics and other socio-cultural aspects that are central to the > appropriation of technologies by community initiatives. - e.g., commoning, > caring; > > Workshop organizers > > Maurizio Teli, Myriam Lewkowicz, Chiara Rossitto and Susanne Bødker > > Read more at: > <https://sites.google.com/view/technological-activism-ws/home> > https://sites.google.com/view/technological-activism-ws/home Looks great, albeit the *.google.com links are an unfortunate irony. Cheers, Julian -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
