Concurrent Town Halls in Various Locations
Parallel sessions open up spaces where you can learn about the projects of your fellow participants from around the world. They amplify the unique potential of all of us being together at The New School. Think of the format of this session as a topically-focused town hall; it is not a traditional panel. Each speaker has 5 minutes to introduce their work. The second hour of the session is dedicated to discussion that promptly engages the people who are not on the stage. Find the presentations in the File Swap folder linked below.
About This Town Hall
Tech cooperatives run without venture capital funding. They treat their workers fairly and give them control over their businesses. Tech co-ops are more resilient and better positioned to advance participatory design and open source/free software. Why, then, is open source/free software not a priority for more tech co-ops? How does participation in shaping a design help to foster a sense of investment? In the co-design process, how do diverse perspectives help to surface potential problems, especially among edge users? How do cooperative values align with co-design/participatory design? What is in your cooperative tool shed?
The hashtag for this track is #CoopToolShed
File Swap
Would you like to dig deeper, learn more about the discussed topics, or have documents to share? Download PDFs of the presentations, background readings, and/or upload your own materials to this folder
Speakers
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Bastien Sibille Secrétaire général de Coop FR Initiateur de l'opération Milliard
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Greta Byrum Co-director of the Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School
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Seeta Peña Gangadharan Assistant Professor at LSE
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Ned Zimmerman Senior Inclusive Developer, Inclusive Design Research Centre
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Jill Dimond Founding Worker-Owner, Sassafras Tech Collective
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McKenzie Jones Manager, CoLab Cooperative
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Marcel de Oliveira Coelho Software Analyst and Member of the Innovation Board at Coopersystem
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Una Lee Vermont-based Design Practitioner, Collaborative Design Facilitator, and Community Organizer, Consentful Tech
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Louis Cousin Ph.D. student, Laval University (Canada) and Paris-Saclay University (France)
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Cheryl Li Designer at the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University