, our researcher from the Situated Art and Design research group Tara Karpinski, has held a workshop titled Domestic Bliss in the H-buurt (Amsterdam) last January and February.
The workshop Domestic Bliss explored with Community Land Trust (Bijlmer, Amsterdam) members what and how they want to share, within the context of an urban commons community. Through interviews and by systematically cataloging shareable items woon-coop members discussed their motivation, conflict resolution, immaterial versus material sharing, and the ways they imagine caring for each other (and the neighbours) when living under the same roof.
Contributors: Cecilia Hendrikx, Suzanna Tomor, Martijn de Waal, (Michel van Dartel)
In collaboration with: Lectorate Civic Interaction Design (HvA)
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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