<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font color="#000000">This seems very relevant to this list .... (This workshop is part of the Communities and Technologies 2021 conference)</font><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><b><br></b></div></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><b>Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities. Towards a new wave of technological activism </b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">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. </div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">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: </div></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:14px"><br></div><ul><li style="margin:0px 0px 3.2px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">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; </li><li style="margin:0px 0px 3.2px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Technical descriptions of grassroots-oriented technologies and/or of the artifact ecologies that grassroots initiatives might adopt; </li><li style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">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; </li></ul></div><div>Workshop organizers </div><div><br></div><div>Maurizio Teli, Myriam Lewkowicz, Chiara Rossitto and Susanne Bødker</div><div><br></div><div>Read more at:</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/technological-activism-ws/home" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/technological-activism-ws/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/technological-activism-ws/home</a></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);border-collapse:separate"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">Douglas Schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><a href="mailto:douglas@publicsphereproject.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">douglas@publicsphereproject.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12px">Twitter: @doug_schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></span>Public Sphere Project<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">     <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/</a></div></div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12px"><br></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight: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