CategoryProbes

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

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,

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

 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