Exploring Quadratic Voting as a Tool for Deliberation and Decision Making in the Be-Commoning Process
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Utility/Collectivity Card Deck
This card deck, developed by AUAS students, showcases possible features and functions that support collectivity in the design of digital platforms for the urban commons.
Be-commoning: a model for the design of new commons initiatives
The Be-commoning model provides a framework for designing new commons initiatives, which have seen a resurgence in the past two decades. These initiatives, such as energy cooperatives, community gardens, and collective housing, function as alternatives or complements to the market and state, aiming to enhance collective well-being, social relations, and sustainability.
‘The City as a License: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society’ for Big Data & Society
AUAS – Civic Interaction Design Research Group has led the development of a special issue for Big Data & Society. “The issue is titled: The City as a License: Design, Rights and Civics in a Blockchain Society”. All contributions are available Open-Access and can be read here.
Paper | Commons-enabling digital platform technologies in practice: the case of carsharing communities in The Netherlands
The second scientific article resulting from our research project has been accepted by the Architecture Media Politics Society Conference ”Urban Futures – Cultural Pasts” to be held in Barcelona.
Paper | ‘Becommoning’: a design-framework for the initiation of new commons
Last October, Suzanna Tomor presented the paper “‘Becommoning’: a design-framework for the initiation of new commons” at the IASDR – International Association of Societies of Design Research. Read the full paper here.
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. Click here to watch.
Design Canvas Digital Platforms for Resource Communities
The canvas employs a Value Sensitive Design (VSD) framework that can help explore the values at stake, the affordances of technologies, and the motivations and interests of stakeholders. This canvas is one of the tools we designed to help designers and companies discover the values within a particular community, understand which values should be made explicit and how they can be aligned with the affordances of the technologies.
The City as a License. Implications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers for Urban Governance
After the smart city, will the blockchain city now follow? New technologies such as distributed ledgers may herald a new phase for the way digital media and big data are deployed to manage, use and shape public spaces and urban infrastructures. The City as a License is a perspective, which illuminates that development from the starting point of the city as a modern, open community with democratic and inclusive public spaces.
The City as a Licence (NL)
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 beheren, gebruiken en vorm te geven. The City as a License is een perspectief, dat die ontwikkeling belicht vanuit het vertrekpunt van de stad als een moderne, open gemeenschap met democratische en inclusieve publieke ruimtes.
The Blockchain and the Commons: Dilemmas in the Design of Local Platforms
In this paper for CHI20 we introduce a framework of three mechanisms and six ‘design dilemmas’ that can aid in balancing conflicting values in the design of such local platforms for commons-based resource management.