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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Vasilis Vlachokyriakos
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by ACM, 2020.
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Solidarity and commons organizations in Europe, in many cases operating under the umbrella of Social and Solidar- ity Economy (SSE) or of a new (digital) cooperative move- ment, are committed to building a more socially just society through a better configuration of democracy and economy. One of the key elements of their success, is the way that in very practical and creative ways materialise their own societal imaginaries in the form of democratically run and collectively owned (digital) cooperatives, self-organised and informal social clinics, or fair trade no-middlemen initiatives. Such examples of prefigurative social movements [2] have a lot in common (at least in terms of a shared value system and societal goals) with politically-motivated HCI research, while also offering HCI researchers very practical examples of socio-technical infrastructures able to transform (public or common) services. In this position paper, through my more recent work with social movements and commons organisations, I briefly comment on: (i) PAR and design methods for engaging in such contexts through open source prototyping [5], tooling and visioning [3] and civic research spin-offs [4]; and (ii) current and ongoing technological agendas able to support the scaling out of such transformative practices.
Author(s): Vlachokyriakos V
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 2020 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year of Conference: 2020
Online publication date: 26/04/2020
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 29/04/2020
Publisher: ACM
URL: https://chi2020activism.wordpress.com/
