Tales of Institutioning and Commoning

Teli, Maurizio; Foth, Marcus; Sciannamblo, Mariacristina; Anastasiu, Irina; Lyle, Peter

doi:10.1145/3385010.3385020

Cited by 59 publications

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“…To further question socio-economic inequalities, when working on commonfare.net, researchers gave visibility and support to activist groups, implemented means for the creation of alternative, groupbased currencies [47], and rethought the way that trust could be visualized when dealing with common-based dynamics [48]. As participatory design, the work conducted on Commonfare has exemplified the repoliticization of participatory design practices in the last decade [49] and has brought into question the role that design researchers play between grassroots initiatives and institutions [50].…”

Section: Techno-anthropology For Sustainable Technologies and Enginee...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Meets Information Technologies: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

Valderrama Pineda,

Skov,

Dahy

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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This article aims at addressing the future challenges in Sustainability and Information Technology (IT) by reversing the order of the conventional prioritization of social objectives and technology, and placing the aim first and the means second. In engineering and technology, historically, there has been greater focus on first developing the technologies (means) and then determining their potential (aim), and how to tame their unintended consequences. The greatest challenge confronting humanity in the coming decades is sustainability. Therefore, the question is how can IT design, develop, and assist in maintaining the ambitious, albeit difficult to grasp, sustainability agenda? This discussion is pertinent in order to avoid research programs and academic curriculum which dive into the intricacies of IT without viewing sustainability as a core value, which ultimately risks replicating the historical pattern that will generate even more unsustainability.

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Section: Techno-anthropology For Sustainable Technologies and Enginee...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Meets Information Technologies: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

Valderrama Pineda,

Skov,

Dahy

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…For effective climate adaptation, resilience planning should facilitate participatory processes that promote genuine power-sharing and inclusivity in decision-making (Arnstein, 1969;Bixler et al, 2022;Fitzgibbons & Mitchell, 2019;Poland et al, 2021). An intersectional lens enriches the understanding of climate impacts and cultivates collaboration that challenges established power structures (Huybrechts et al, 2017;Teli et al, 2020;Turnhout et al, 2020). Hardy et al (2017) call for a race-aware approach to planning that addresses racial disparities in vulnerability and development by incorporating historical insights.…”

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“…While immediate outcomes of co-production can be evident, achieving broader systemic change is often more complex, requiring steadfast engagement and the dismantling of institutional obstacles to enable meaningful policy transformation (Jagannathan et al, 2020). Examples from Durban (Wamsler, 2017) and London (Teli et al, 2020) illustrate the potential of inclusive strategies to empower communities and foster co-production.…”

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Co-Production for Equitable Governance in Community Climate Adaptation: Neighborhood Resilience in Houston, Texas

Munenzon

2024

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<p>As urban areas grapple with the pressing impacts of climate change, fostering community-level resilience becomes imperative. Co-production, emphasizing active stakeholder engagement, offers a pathway to robust, equitable, and inclusive adaptation strategies. This article delves into the co-production processes within neighborhood resilience planning in Houston, Texas, revealing how collaboration between communities, planners, and municipal leaders can address climate vulnerabilities and support disadvantaged groups. Through an empirical analysis of three Houston neighborhoods, the study evaluates co-production’s role in promoting neighborhood-scale adaptive capacity and reshaping power dynamics to advance equity and environmental justice. The results highlight the significance of local institutions and the necessity of municipal commitment to co-production efforts. The study contributes actionable insights on the application of co-production in neighborhood climate adaptation, emphasizing the need for direct municipal engagement to implement transformative spatial projects and rebalance governance frameworks for effective climate action.</p>

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“…The topics of commons and commoning (Avram et al, 2019;Teli et al, 2020) are entangled in our project of care infrastructuring as the care of the plants is not assigned to any particular person but can be enacted by anyone in the building. The office pot plants are usually viewed as part of what is called "common property" of the building as they "belong" to everyone and no-one in particular.…”

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Plant-human entanglements in buildings: designing for care infrastructuring with office occupants and pot plants

Loh,

Santo,

Foth

2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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The current outsourcing of maintenance and the use of technological devices to automatically care for plants in buildings change the spatial experience between human office occupants and plants. This caretaker system distances people from plants, inclining us to regard them more as decorative objects. The relationship between humans and plants in a building is often unidirectional, with plants providing humans multiple benefits such as improved health and well-being, and increased worker productivity. In our human-plant interaction study, we developed a layer of care infrastructure within an office building that gives agency to people as a collective to interact with and take care of other non-human beings; that is, plants. In re-imagining mediated human-building interaction, we employed technology as an ambient mediator where people, plants and technology comprised the plant care system in a typical office building. A year-long design intervention was introduced within a typical office floor using artifacts (pots, shelves, and digital system) which we fabricated for the plants. From the results of an 8 week participation experiment together with data from qualitative interviews of 6 study participants, we identified five themes: Technology, Object/Thing, Infrastructuring, Commoning, and Care. Our analysis of these themes informs a care infrastructuring approach where both humans and plants become interdependent office co-inhabitants. By entangling with technology, care, and others, we present an infrastructuring layer to mediate human-building interactions with plants.

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Tales of Institutioning and Commoning

Cited by 59 publications

References 78 publications

Sustainability Meets Information Technologies: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

Sustainability Meets Information Technologies: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

Co-Production for Equitable Governance in Community Climate Adaptation: Neighborhood Resilience in Houston, Texas

Plant-human entanglements in buildings: designing for care infrastructuring with office occupants and pot plants

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