is a research project led by Amsterdam University of Applied Arts (HvA), with Caradt as a main consortium partner. The project will be carried out between April 2022 and March 2024.
This project is a follow-up to the recently concluded SIA RAAK project, Design Thinking for the Circular Economy, in which Caradt also participated.
Design Thinking for the Circular Economy
The Circulate Project | 2 year update
Caradt’s research share is now twice as large as it was for the first project. Charging the Commons describes its theme and goals as follows: ‘Towards a situated design approach for the development of digital ledger technologies to empower resource communities.’
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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