In research project Design for Collective Decision Making, researcher Tara Karpinski focuses on on designing interfaces for emerging collective decision making processes — a critical area as digital technologies and democratic processes become ever more intertwined.
Design for Collective Decision Making is part of the Professional Doctorate (PD) program, a unique trajectory that bridges academia and professional practice. Within this program, candidates conduct research in seven domains that directly contribute to their professional field. For the PD Arts + Creative research domain, Tara explores possible ways to design and implement collective decision-making methods that are more transparent, equitable, and more inclusive. Her research builds on her own experiences working as part of a collective and her previous research conducted with commons communities, including the Community Land Trust H-buurt.