[liberationtech] Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities

[Julian Oliver]

..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