Next week, Caradt’s researcher Tara Karpinski, together with Zsuzsanna Tomor, and Martijn de Waal will be presenting the session “Becommoning” – A Design Framework for the Initiation of New Commons at the Placemaking Europe Week, in Strasbourg.
The session will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 14:30 – 15:00, and will explore which factors hinder or stimulate the development of (urban) commons initiatives, which practical steps can be taken, and to what extent external actors can support sharing communities. See more about about the session here
The “Becommoning” design framework is part of the ongoing research project ‘Charging the Commons’, led by AUAS – Civic Interaction Design Research Group and developed in collaboration with Tara Karpinski and Michel Van Dartel from Caradt’s Research Group: Situated Art & Design, and consortium partners.
Charging the Commons is a follow-up project to Circulate which investigated the design of digital platforms for resource communities. It explored how a situated design approach can be employed to articulate the social values of resource communities. The second phase of the project examined how these values can be translated into (digital) tools and designs for the organisation of an urban commons.
‘My practice is situated in between different actors, in this shape-shifting middle many things can happen.’
Tara Karpinski is a designer, researcher and educator working in the realm of social practice. She holds a BA in photography and art history from the Savannah College of Art & Design (USA), and an MA from the Sandberg Instituut (NL). Her Master studies were funded by a Netherland-America Foundation grant.
The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology (SADT) focuses on the societal embedding and embodiment of knowledge production that art and design research enables. The conducted research contributes to a deeper understanding of technological developments and their impact on people, society, and the environment, and to the development of situated approaches in the creative sector and beyond. In doing so, it advances a wider acknowledgement of artistic and design research as a mode of knowledge production, one that is grounded in creativity and critical imagination as a way of generating insight into, and intervening in, societal transitions driven by technology.
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