Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities. Towards a new wave of technological activism
Maurizio Teli, Myriam Lewkowicz, Chiara Rossitto, Susanne Bødker
Abstract
Technological development and adoption are characterized by historical waves, reflecting both technical advancements and social transformations in mutually constitutive relation. Today, we are in the middle of another of these waves characterized, for instance, by the widespread focus on AI and other emerging technologies. In this context, activists and designers are constructively appropriating these emerging technologies, thus showing how socio-technical aspects of technological design, development, and implementation, contribute to ongoing transformations of power relations, life conditions, and our collective future.
Topics & Concepts
GrassrootsAppropriationSustainable communityPolitical scienceComputer scienceSustainable developmentPoliticsEpistemologyLawPhilosophyInnovative Human-Technology InteractionInnovative Approaches in Technology and Social DevelopmentSmart Cities and Technologies