Fostering commonfare. Infrastructuring autonomous social collaboration

Peter Lyle, Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Maurizio Teli

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Abstract

Recently, HCI scholars have started questioning the relationship between computing and political economy, with both general analyses of such relationships, and specific design cases describing design interventions. This paper contributes to this stream of reflections, and argues that IT designers and HCI scholars can critically engage with the contemporary phase of capitalism by infrastructuring the emergence of new institutional forms of autonomous social collaboration through IT projects. More specifically, we discuss strategies and tactics that are available for IT designers embracing an activist agenda while infrastructuring autonomous social collaborations. We draw on empirical data from an H2020 EU funded project - Commonfare - that seeks to foster the emergence of alternative forms of welfare provision rooted in social collaboration. In this context, we discuss how the necessary multiple relations that unfold in a project with such ambitions shape both the language and the technologies of the project itself.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : Engage with CHI
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication date20 Apr 2018
Edition2018
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356206
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Duration: 21 Apr 201826 Apr 2018

Conference

Conference2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
LocationPalais des Congrès de Montréal
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period21/04/201826/04/2018
SponsorACM SIGCHI

Keywords

  • Configuring participation
  • Infrastructuring
  • Participatory design
  • Political economy
  • Social collaboration
  • Strategies and tactics
  • Welfare

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