[JoPP-Public] Call for Workshop Papers - Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring

Fri Apr 7 18:33:00 CEST 2017

Apologies for cross posting

Workshop at Communities and Technologies 2017 
(http://comtech.communities)
Université de Technologie de Troyes, France, 26 (or 27) June 2017

Digital platforms, often labeled as part of the “sharing economy”, 
are becoming increasingly relevant to both the daily lives of private 
individuals and to researchers. As these tools are transforming various 
communities (of interest, place, practice and circumstance) to 
establish new forms of connection, welfare, labour and service, there 
emerge fundamental questions around the perils of creation and use. In 
response to this disruptive trend, this workshop brings together 
perspectives and cases from researchers and practitioners across 
various disciplines to interrogate how different forms of collaborative 
economy might be imagined and created based on the ethics and logic of 
care, as an answer to these perils.
This workshop will serve as an open and active forum for participants - 
we plan to include up to 20 practitioners, designers, and researchers 
involved in related fields. We welcome all methodological, practical, 
and speculative approaches to considering the relations between 
sharing, caring and the collaborative economy. Key topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to:

Platform cooperativism;
Environmental sustainability and ecological concerns (such as 
Ethnography after Human Exceptionalism, Hacker Farm and Food Connect);
Peer-to-peer learning and production (such as Mothership Hackermoms, 
Coder Dojo and Free Software);
Citizen science (e.g. Quantum Moves);
Related social, political, cultural, and health domains and 
implications (including issues around rising precarity, homelessness, 
self-care and mutual aid);
Initiatives calling for digital social innovation and design for change 
(such as CAPS projects, the DESIS network or the Enabling the Future 
network);
Digital currencies and finance, (e.g. Freecoin).

We are aiming to:
- create a space for discussion about new and ongoing work in the 
field, and open up debates about the direction of research and practice 
across diverse fields related to collaborative economy.
- bring together researchers and practitioners in related fields to 
identify current challenges around the sharing economy and reflect 
critically on what could be done to resist these trends.
- discuss existing cases or examples of communities, technologies, and 
practices directed at facilitating a sharing caring economy.
- reflect critically on questions involved in the design of 
technologies with and for care, to build more just and livable futures.

As a follow up to the workshop, we aim to produce an edited publication 
(journal special issue), considering some of the workshop contributions 
in extended form. Discussions have begun with CoDesign: International 
Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts.

We will include a maximum of 20 participants. Interested participants 
should submit 800 word position papers to the organisers, outlining the 
following:

A brief biography of each contributor, touching on their current 
research and/or practice, including any existing work in this area, 
from old sharing and caring traditions to explorations of the potential 
futures of this domain; and What would they like to gain from/bring to 
the workshop.

Participants will be selected to ensure overall disciplinary and 
geo-cultural diversity.

The position papers will be sent as PDFs via email to Peter Lyle 
<peter.lyle at m-iti.org> before 5pm GMT on 24 April 2017.

For more details, please check the workshop website: 
https://collaborativeeconomiesworkshop.wordpress.com/

Workshop Organisers
Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick
Jaz Choi, Queensland University of Technology
Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University
Ann Light, University of Sussex
Peter Lyle, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
Maurizio Teli, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute

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