Charging the Commons is a 2-year project that investigates the design of digital platforms for resource communities. The project explores how a Situated-design approach can be employed to articulate the (social) values of resource communities. In addition, the project examines how these values can be translated into a design for the management of an urban commons, using digital ledger technologies (DLT’s).
Circulate Movies
With the intention of documenting and disseminating the themes, research processes, and main outputs from the Circulate project, we created a series of short movies featured below. The first, Blockchain and the commons: pros and cons, addresses the challenges and complexities faced when designing digital platforms for resource communities – communities that want to share
Circulate’s Livecast Series: Rights to the blockchain city
Image Credits: Lithopy – the Cartesian Church of 3D Printing. Director: Petr Šourek. Design: Eva Holá. Photo: Jan Hrdý⠀ Together with Pakhuis de Zwijger and Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Circulate project organised a series of three livecasts to discuss implications of blockchain and digital platforms for the management and governance of the urban commons. Governments
Design Canvas Digital Platforms for Resource Communities
Designing digital platforms and infrastructures for resource communities can be a challenge. Designers and technologists find themselves working with new technologies, like blockchain, AI, Internet of Things and digital platforms. There are no well-trodden paths or extensive template libraries that can be easily implemented. And, these technologies are not simply neutral tools. They come with
Horison, a dashboard and app for the promotion of C02 neutral living.
Student: Violet JimStudy: Minor User Experience Design In May 2020 Students of the minor User Experience Design were involved in a Circulate student project. They were asked to engage a fictional community in balancing energy usage and production by visualising the (private and collective) usage and availability of energy. In creating this visualisation (in the
Ener-geyser
The circulate project aims to explore the design of digital service platforms for resource communities. Digital technologies, however, are not politically and ideologically neutral. They present affordances that could challenge existing value sets and raise questions about ethics, privacy, and the sociopolitical implications of new forms of distributed authority. In order to explore which values
Neighbours: Using serious games as a tool for community building & research
One of the main goals of the circulate project is to create design tools and frameworks that can aid professionals in the field and community members in the design of digital services for research communities. Neighbours is one of these tools. Created to help community members and facilitators to explore the values within a community,
Peak Shaving Time – shedding light on the social ramifications of smart technologies.
As part of the first workpackage of circulate we conducted several probes exploring the underlying economic and social values within resource communities, and how these values can be given a role in the development of digital platforms to aid these communities. Peak Shaving time is one such probe. The term Peak Shaving Time refers to
Workshop The City as a License: Design, Rights and Civics in a Blockchain Society
June 24 2021 14:00-18:00 CET Call for Participation Organizers / Editors: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Civic Interaction Design Research Group & Institute of Network Cultures (Martijn de Waal, Gabriele Ferri & Inte Gloerich); Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh (John Vines & Chris Elsden). Important Dates Abstracts of up to 500 words should
The City as a License. Implications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers for Urban Governance
Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have started to explore the application of distributed ledgers
The City as a Licence (NL)
Hoe nieuwe technologieën het beheer en gebruik van publieke ruimtes veranderen Door: Martijn de Waal Volgt na de smart city nu de blockchain-stad? Nieuwe technologieën als distributed ledgers (decentraal beheerde databases) luiden mogelijk een nieuwe fase in voor de manier waarop digitale media en big data worden ingezet om publieke ruimtes en stedelijke infrastructuren te
Solar Trade, an energy dashboard and energy sharing marketplace promoting sustainable energy usage.
Student: Tara van KleefStudy: Minor User Experience Design In May 2020 Students of the minor User Experience Design were involved in a Circulate student project. They were asked to engage a fictional community in balancing energy usage and production by visualising the (private and collective) usage and availability of energy. In creating this visualisation (in
The Blockchain and the Commons: Dilemmas in the Design of Local Platforms
We explored the implications of using Digital Ledger Technologies in the administration, management and governance of local communities (e.g. residents of an apartment block or neighborhood) organizing the production and consumption of their resources such as energy, mobility, time, etc. In this paper for CHI20 we introduce a framework of three mechanisms and six ‘design
ANNA a speculative film by Anna Brynskov
ALEXANDRA is a short film made in order to spark conversation with people about how to design digital systems in a good and humane way. The film aims to open up a critical and nuanced conversation on blockchain algorithms for sustainable, local communities with the people of Amsterdam. In our present time, digital technologies often