Ημερομηνία/Ώρα
Date(s) - 08/03/2019
14:30 - 20:00
Τοποθεσία
Fine Art Building, University of Nicosia
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Open Technologies: Their History, Laws, and Gender
A University of Nicosia Research Foundation workshop for the project Phygital [http://phygitalproject.eu/]
A workshop by Natalia-Rozalia Avlona
During the last four decades, digital commons have shaped virtual terrains of free, participatory and distributed production of immaterial goods. The invention of World Wide Web, the Commons Based Peer Production (CBPP), the FOSS and the Free Culture movements have formed new landscapes of governance and production as well as legal tools and virtual communities which were characterised by the “hacker ethos”. The values of sharing, openness, collaboration and decentralisation came to the front, as post-capitalist values challenging the notion of “ownership” as the subject matter and heart of the traditional copyright law. On the other hand, during the last decade, the rapid rise of the platform economy has been appropriating the values and structures of “sharing” and “decentralisation”, introduced by the digital commons, into an uneven value extraction by the platforms (netarchical capitalism).
The last years, the emergence of makerspaces as open, community-led spaces, where open source software and hardware are utilised collaboratively by individuals, (Kostakis, Niaros & Drechsler 2017) is re-territorialising these “digital commoning practices” with the means of additive and subtractive manufacturing technologies (3D Printing, CNC machining) in to the “phygital” realm, towards the production of tangible goods. However, whilst these practices are pioneering the democratisation of technology, dismantling the dominant legal and technical structures, it is not clear yet how inclusive are and can be. Hence, the feminist perspectives of open technologies are to be explored as a method and tool to expose their main challenges and potentialities.
This workshop will provide a systematic overview of this field, focusing on its first part on the historical and legal aspects of the open technologies and on the second part, on the feminist perspectives and challenges that come up by its confrontation with the gender.
Programme
14:30-14:45 | Introduction
14:45-16:15 | From Digital Commons to Platform Economy: A Presentation of their history, legal issues, politics, and culture
16:15-16:45 | Discussion
16:45-17:15 | Break
17:15-18:15 | Gender and Open Technologies: Feminist perspectives, challenges and potentialities
18:15-19:30 | Workshop “Queering your wiki”
19:30-20:00 | Open Discussion
Please bring your laptop with you.